Owen, On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 10:40 -0500, Owen Mays wrote: > I apologize if this is a dumb question (I've never used Lightroom), > but how is using tags different from a "virtual collection"? You can > even create nested tags, so you could have a category called "my > virtual collections" and then tags below that.
I've not used LR either. All I know about it iswhat a friend of mine tells me! And we've had quite a few long discussions comparing LR and DT. One possibility, IIRC, is that you may be able to have a different set of changes on the same image that is in more than one collection. But I'm not really sure. Regards, Tony. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Tony Arnold <tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 08:16 -0700, darkta...@911networks.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:23:41 +0200 Christian Mandel <c.man...@gmx.net> wrote: This topic is discussed frequently, one of the last threads was “Film roll vs folder” starting on 2015-11-16. Film rolls are related to file system paths, each film roll will hold a subset of images of a folder. Therefore, you would need a copy (or link) of the image in several folders, and even then, the edit history would not be the same. One could argue about other methods for collections, but I guess at the moment tags is probably the closest you will get. I did see that and I asked because P. Shanahan said: A "film roll" is a *collection* of images whereas a folder is a directory, a storage structure. but from everything else, they look to be the same. What I'm trying to do is: 1. Collections 2. Virtual copies but each belonging to different collection It sounds like you want a similar feature to 'virtual collections' in LightRoom where you can add images arbitrarily to a user created collection. In my experience, DT does not support this functionality. I get round this by using tags, where the tag is your 'virtual collection'. You can use the 'collect images' panel on the left hand side to select all images with a given tag. Virtual collections would be a really useful feature in DT, but looking at the database structure I can imagine it's a fair amount of work to implement, and that's assuming the developers want to do so! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold | IT Security Analyst | University of Manchester | IT Services | T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 | M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 | E: tony. arn...@manchester.ac.uk _______________________________________________________________________ _____ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscribe@lists.darktabl e.or -- Tony Arnold | IT Security Analyst | University of Manchester | IT Services | T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 | M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 | E: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.or
