On Nov 24, 2011, at 6:18 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> One thing that I wish I could do in lightroom is attach notes to photos. It >> could be information about what I was doing when I shot the photo, notes >> about things that I want to try in processing, or anything that would >> require more than just a "tag". >> >> Another feature, far more elaborate, that I'd really like is collaborative >> abilities. >> >> One of my tricks for paring my photo sets down to a less ridiculous size is >> to have my girlfriend make a pass and rate them red/yellow/green. Mind you >> I'd also like to be able to rate photos with more subtlety than 1-5, I'd >> like a 0-99 rating. I'd also like to be able to share catalogs, >> non-destructively, with other people. i.e. someone else could sign in to my >> light room catalog, give their own separate ratings, independent of my own. >> Make their own edits, that I could then import and modify if I wanted. What >> they wouldn't be able to do is delete my raw files, or make any changes to >> my own edits. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > As I recall from long ago and far away when I had occasion to "design" > information systems and the underlying data structures, fixed-length fields > were easy to create and use, but variable- or unlimited-length fields like > Notes or Comments just exploded the overhead and storage requirements for the > data base. [Disclaimer: my role was as a user rep - not as a techie.] I > don't know if that is still true, or if it matters given the high speed and > low cost of memory
I can think of two ways of doing it without variable length fields. A fixed length field that is a pointer to a text file. There are already sidecar files, why not a caboose file? If there's a file 20111116-imgp3141.pef then any notes would be put into 20111116-imgp3141.txt or 20111116-imgp3141-1.txt for a virtual copy. > . But still, it seems that your Notes idea could add a lot of extra "stuff" > in terms of code, processing time, and storage. Can't you just use the > Caption field that is already there within the exif? I'm not aware of the caption field, that may work. I take it then that if I use it, and post the jpeg to flickr, then the caption won't show up as the title? Or anyone looking at my exif file wouldn't see notes like use spot removal to get all the zits off her face ? > > BTW - Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks, Happy T-day to you and everyone else too. > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
