Photography Asked on February 1, 2021
I’m fairly new to digikam.
(Previously I was using Shotwell to sift through thousands of photos from various sources to separate the wheat from the chaff, but now feel digikam might be better suited for the job – and to ultimately get to a stage of properly managing digital assets, “DAM”.)
In my amateur and somewhat still haphazard workflow I am missing a – you would have thought! – simple feature, which one has become familiar with with modern web browsers: (auto-)session save-and-restore! I’m now reviewing one month ( = “album”) at a time, applying a few filters, and get tired after getting halfway through a month (averaging some 3000 photos per month). If I then close digikam and restart it later I need to a) re-apply the filtering and b) find the place somewhere in that album where I took off. Ideally, digikam would open exactly as I left it. Currently I can’t see a setting which would allow for this to happen. Am I overlooking something? A quick Google search also didn’t reveal anything in this direction, hence my attempt at this posing this question here… Thanks!
If you're looking to apply the same effect to a series of images, have you tried the "Batch Queue Manager"? This will let you select the effects you want to apply, and from the "Queue" menu you can "Save workflow".
If you're looking to apply different effects to some images, and other effects to others, you could save them as two (or more) separate queues.
If you're looking to apply different effects to each image, I'm not sure that DigiKam does that. Personally, I like the way I can avoid this in DigKam - adjusting each image as I go. If I wanted to do that, I would use Darktable, which saves a .xmp file with each - though Darktable can be heavier going than DigiKam for image management, so I tend to review images and do some editing in the DigiKam Editor (basically an in-DigiKam GUI for Showfoto), but for more specific types of editing I'll use Darktable (which can be opened from DigiKam with a right click and "Open with" on each image).
Other editors and viewers are also supported by the right click from DigiKam - for example Rawtherapee and GIMP (though GIMP is more of a pain with RAW files).
It might be that others here will know a different trick, but since I've found that DigiKam is good for image management and Darktable for more specific editing, I use a combination of the two in, if you'll excuse the hi-fi metaphor, a separate-turntable-amplifier-and-speakers kind of approach.
Answered by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere on February 1, 2021
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