1/17/2024 0 Comments Digikam home directory![]() ![]() Looks like I’m sold on Shotwell again for the time being. That gives Shotwell the benefit of being the place you “live” with your photos, while the other programs (like GIMP, RawTherapee, DarkTable) almost function as extensions. It’s probably at least partially a byproduct of the hardware upgrades that I’ve done with this machine (16 gigs of RAM, all SATA-3 SSD drives), but I found that the “helper” apps for editing images loaded up much more quickly than I remember. I want to test out the Flickr plugin for sure, since all accounts come with a terabyte of storage - that means Flickr could be my web-based backup for all my pictures… I haven’t tested all the plugins for web services yet, but it at least offers options for all the popular ones. digiKam provides a number of methods to classify photographs: filenames, albums, collections, time-stamp, tags, rating, GPS position and captions. I also don’t have a folder labeled “Dec 31 1970,” which appeared to the be default applied to those images that made Shotwell throw its hands up in the past. I haven’t looked through all 23 thousand pictures, but a glance through the last couple years appears to have sorted everything correctly. In the past, the software had trouble with certain cameras or images (particularly those that I had scanned). I was impressed that this version correctly pulled in all the meta tags and organized my photos into “ Events” by date, making them a bit easier to sift through and work with. I started with a (mostly) clean /home directory when I installed Fedora, so I needed to rebuild my Shotwell database completely. Like I said, it’s been a couple years, so even though the Fedora 20 repos aren’t up to the latest version of Shotwell, version 0.15.1 constitutes an upgrade from what I was last using. The digiKam Main Window Zoom Bar Located in Status Bar. You can alter the size of the thumbnails using the magnifier slider close to the right end of the status bar. The switch prompted me to look at Shotwell (the default photo manager for Gnome 3) again. In all eight areas the Image View shows the result of your selection or search on the Left Sidebar in the Icon Area. Finally, unmount the old drive and mount the new one on the directory of the old one and that should do the trick. Second, if you havent yet, move the pictures to the new drive. ![]() I want to keep it that way, yet still use the facial recognition functionality. When I recently built a new desktop machine and started running Fedora as my OS, the version of DigiKam in the repos was 3.5 (I had been running version 4). ago I havent tried to do that, but I dont think its too complicated. I don’t have the hard disk space on my primary drive, so all of my media is on a separate drive. In Ubuntu, I used Shotwell for a quite a while, then about 2+ years ago, switched over to DigiKam. For cataloging, organizing, and editing photos, the common Windows players are Adobe products - Lightroom and Photoshop. Since I primarily use a Linux operating system on my computer(s), finding alternatives to popular Windows or Mac software can occasionally be difficult. ![]()
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