In the same way you will want to change collection manager. The only way to
do that without loss is to use xmp/iptc tagging inside the files (jpeg) or
with sidecar files (raw). So there is no problem to use DT for collection
management.
2015-06-22 18:40 GMT+02:00 Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]>:
> > Frankly reading the exchanges it sounds to me that your workflow is far
> > too complex. I would sit down, learn how to use darktable import,
> > tagging and collections. And I would fit darktable into play. I also
> > think that one need to adapt its workflow to a software rich as dt is
> > rather than the opposite. This will pay back in the long run.
>
> I'm a happy darktable user, but I have to throw in my two cents in
> the opposite direction here. I think it's perfectly sensible to do
> collection management outside of darktable and its database. Over the
> sufficiently long term a photographer may well move between multiple
> environments for developing and processing RAW photos; I myself have
> moved between three already[*]. Trusting collection management to your
> RAW processor amounts to a bet that either you won't make such a move
> in the future or that your collection management can be exported into
> your new environment. If this bet fails, you have serious problems.
>
> Collection management outside your RAW processor preserves your
> freedom to move between RAW processors and to easily experiment
> with new ones.
>
> - cks
> [*: Bibble, then AfterShot Pro, then darktable.]
>
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