Hello,
just my 2 cents - I use mainly darktable + digiKam + GIMP + Hugin.
File structure:
2015-03/[name of roll/event/whatever]/
20150321-100238.jpg
2015-03/[name of roll/event/whatever]/raw
20150321-100238.cr2
* darktable is used only for processing raws and exporting
to ../image.jpg. No metadata are maintained at all. I do not
care about "collections" in darktable since I usually start
darktable from digiKam directly with the list of RAW files to be
processed.
* digikam is used for keeping metadata in the JPEG version only,
no metadata are added to the corresponding RAW file.
* JPEG (`basename` of raw file) is considered to be the only image
for metadata. Should I need variants of the image for various
purposes, I just extend the file base name (e.g.
20150321-100238e-print.tif).
* I either do the first and quick review in darktable (get rid of
blurred or unneeded images) or any time later in digiKam (on
JPEGs).
* After I delete image (JPEG) in digikam, I can run a bash script
for all JPEGs in the directory to remove also the corresponding
RAW file (and its XMP sibbling) for missing JPEGs.
* When I reprocess (from whatever reason) the raw file in
darktable, it creates a new version of the basename JPEG (with
some suffix, I guess _01 or so). The above mentioned script
takes care of copying the metadata from older version of the
JPEG file to the new version, removal of the old version and
renaming the new version to the original basename.jpg. Any
custom named files (e.g. ...e-print.tif) are left untouched by
the script.
The reason why I prefer the tasks (conversion of RAW file, metadata
handling) to be managed separately is my historical experience (things
have changed a lot in 15 years): there have been issues with
compatibility, duplications, corruptions, etc. of metadata. Some editors
ignore metadata or modify them to their liking.
I often update the metadata chaotically (when I have time and the mood)
and also re-develop the RAW files when I think there is a better crop,
colour, better noise removal module, whatever. The bash script helps to
keep the image pairs (raw/blabla.cr2 and blabla.jpg incl. XMP sidecars)
organised without much effort.
Keeping the metadata in JPEGs works also good for pictures from
point-and-shoot cameras and mobile phones.
nice weekend,
Milan
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Michael Born píše v Čt 12. 03. 2015 v 11:19 +0100:
> Dear DT users,
>
> is anybody of you using DT alongside with digikam and tagging his/her
> images?
> What settings do you use for digikam and how is your workflow?
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