On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Ioannis Vranos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: >> Cadence week 2 covers Shotwell: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week2 >> >> I've taken several looks at it now but am at a loss to find a basic >> function which I deem essential for photo management. I do not see the >> ability to put photos (or symlinks of them) into separate folders to >> make separate collections. The only option seems to be to organize the >> photos chronologically via what it calls 'events' What am I missing or >> does Shotwell really lack the ability to group photos? > > This is how I use Shotwell. > > At Shotwell preferences, I have enabled the option: "Write tags, > titles, and other metadata to photo files". > > I am adding a tag to my new photos, in the fomat yyyy-mm-dd Town - > Event. So they are categorised based on tags. > > After a reinstallation of *buntu, when I reimport these photos, they > are automatically categorised into tags. > > > So add tags to your phots, with the preferences option enabled, let > them for a couple of seconds to be saved, and see what I mean. You can > always erase tags from photos, or modify them.
The Shotwell page describes how to use it, and its features: http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/index.html -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
