[clug] Photo management?

[David C]

This seems a workflow problem.
Why not use WordPress or similar?
Seems a less than elegant solution, but easily adaptable and with fully
configurable metadata.
On 23 Dec 2015 5:12 PM, "Ian Munsie" <darkstarsword at gmail.com> wrote:

> After being burnt by some photo mismanagement tools (F-Spot in
> particular, which not only altered the original photos without
> permission, it overwrote their correct timestamps with garbage) I
> strongly advocate the K.I.S.S. principle for photo management:
>
> 1. One directory for each event prefixed with the date in YYYY-MM-DD
> format of the start of the event, followed by the name
>
> 2. (Optional) Separate subdirectories for each individual day or
> significant section of the shoot. Prefix these with (at least) 2
> digits so they are still sorted correctly.
>
> 3. (Optional) Separate subdirectories for each separate camera/SD
> card/DCIM folder used during the shoot
>
> 3. (Alternative) If the camera restarted the photo numbering during
> the shoot, you may wish to use mmv to add extra digits before the
> photo numbers so they can all be placed in the same directory and
> still sort correctly.
>
> 3. (Alternative) If multiple cameras were used during the shoot and
> their clocks were synchronised (or at least close enough), use your
> knowledge of the Unix command line to rename all files from all
> cameras use add a timestamp to the filenames so they can all be sorted
> in a single directory (being careful not to overwrite any photos taken
> within a second of each other that have the same timestamp).
>
> 4. For collections or other methods of sorting, symlink photos from
> the above into separate directories (see below)
>
> Viewing / managing from Linux
> -----------------------------
> Use 64bit geeqie 1.0 to view photos (at this time I cannot recommend
> geeqie 1.1 or 1.2 unless you need to view stereo photos (which I do) -
> the monkeys were let loose on the code base and it is significantly
> more buggy than 1.0 for almost no gain. The 64bit version is a must if
> working with raw photos due to memory leaks that will images to stop
> loading once it hits 4GB of virtual memory on 32bit).
>
> Geeqie remains an excellent image viewer that is fast and easy to use.
> It is one of the few image viewers that can be driven easily and
> efficiently from the keyboard, which is important for me, but is just
> as efficient to use with a mouse for fans of the rodent. Touch screen
> users may wish to look elsewhere however.
>
> Viewing from Windows
> --------------------
> Give up now, there exists no good image viewer for Windows ;-) There
> is an ancient port of gqview that can be coerced to run on it if you
> are desperate, but it has bugs.
>
> If sharing to Windows from Linux via Samba, you may wish to add 'vfs
> objects = dirsort' to the smb.conf to make sure files remain sorted in
> certain image viewers (not required for gqview, but is required for
> e.g. nvidia's stereo photo viewer).
>
> Viewing from Mac, Android, iPhone, etc
> --------------------------------------
> I have no idea, nor do I care to find out ;-)
>
> I hear some of these platforms hate the directory tree, so I don't
> think they could ever be very good choices for managing photos, but
> maybe there's an app to fix that ;-)
>
> Sorting
> -------
> To sort photos in categories other than by date/event, use geeqie's
> sort manager (S) to symlink or copy photos into separate directories
> (middle mouse drag and drop the destination folder from the tree view
> into the sort manager as a shortcut to add destination folders, but
> note that this is broken as of v1.1).
>
> Symlinked photos exported through a samba share are viewable in
> Windows as though they are the originals, so this will not limit you
> to a single viewer (unlike certain other photo mismanagement tools I
> have been burned with in the past). All that is required is the image
> viewer not hide the directory layout from you (and if it does, ditch
> that viewer).
>
> It also has a collection manager to do something similar, though I
> tend to avoid that on the assumption that the collections would be
> limited to viewing with geeqie.
>
> De-duping
> ---------
> Press D in geeqie, change "Compare by" to "Similarity" and marvel at
> the fact this was one of the first image viewers to be able to do
> this.
>
> Editing
> -------
> geeqie is not an editor (beyond EXIF rotation), but can easily call
> out to your choice of editors from the right click menu.
>
> At this stage, rawtherapee seems to be the hero for most of my basic
> workflow, and GIMP for more advanced editing like cloning a
> background. Never overwrite an original photo (I think all raw image
> editors are good for this - only need to be careful when the JPEG was
> the original) - either move or rename the originals out of the way, or
> add a suffix to their filename to distinguish them.
>
> I have yet to find a good solution for editing stereo photos, as these
> add a lot more complexity to the editing workflow and even doing basic
> tasks like cropping or adjusting the parallax can be fiddly.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ian
>
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