On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:44 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:42:04AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I just shot about 400 pictures on a trip, and I was wondering what the best way to manage the Digital camera on SuSE 10.1. While I am a long time SuSE user, the other camera we have is my wife's and she uses that other OS. I know I should easily be able to transfer the pictures as the system will view the camera as a removable disk (or I can use the SD card directly). I'm more interested in managing the pictures and adding captions.

digikam is a nice all-in-one application for this purpose.

Tastes might vary however.

Ciao, Marcus

I love digikam - but I have my system font on Tahoma 8pt and the captions (properties) of the fotos are displayed, it seem, in systemfont-2pt, hence unreadable. Anyone know how I can change the font - without compiling? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Marcus Meissner wrote:

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:42:04AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I just shot about 400 pictures on a trip, and I was wondering what the best way to manage the Digital camera on SuSE 10.1. While I am a long time SuSE user, the other camera we have is my wife's and she uses that other OS. I know I should easily be able to transfer the pictures as the system will view the camera as a removable disk (or I can use the SD card directly). I'm more interested in managing the pictures and adding captions.

digikam is a nice all-in-one application for this purpose.

Tastes might vary however.

Ciao, Marcus

I'll endorse the digikam route. I've been using this for a while with both my phonecam (snapshots, USB storage device mode) and Nikon D80 (automatically detected via USB) and the program supports both devices well. Organisation is well done, with proper tagging of the pictures, ratings etc. My only niggle is the amount of time taken to convert to a lossless file format after importing, but apart from that, it works well for me. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:36:09 +0100 Jonathan Ervine wrote:

Would agree with the comments for digikam - particularly for KDE users. If using GNOME I guess f-spot might also fit the bill. And as the OP mentioned that his wife is using Windows, he might want to consider Picasa from Google. With the very obvious caveat that Picasa on Linux is a wine app and looks and feels a bit alien... but if it's what you're used to on Windows it's definitely an option for Linux.

I used Digikam, and it worked out very well. I had about 500 pictures of Canada and Alaska. The other aspect that I need to do is to put the pictures up on a photo sharing site, such as Google or Yahoo. In any case, thanks to those who responded. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Jonathan Ervine wrote:

Would agree with the comments for digikam - particularly for KDE users. If using GNOME I guess f-spot might also fit the bill. You are right. Sorry, I gave my opinion as a dedicated KDE user. F-Spot is an excellent choice for the Gnome user, and from memory it works well, but I don't have the same amount of experience with it.

And as the OP mentioned that his wife is using Windows, he might want to consider Picasa from Google. With the very obvious caveat that Picasa on Linux is a wine app and looks and feels a bit alien... but if it's what you're used to on Windows it's definitely an option for Linux.

Jon (I'm a Canon man...)

I could have been a Canon man, but Nikon were doing a deal on the very day I was buying a camera. Very happy with the D80. Now I'm tied to Nikon for life, such is the cost of lenses!

PS Hope you're well Pete - you should invest in a card reader... they're very cheap and incredibly useful.

I'm good Jon, and hope you are too. There is life outside Novell :) *. I've actually got a card reader in my new PC that handles all sorts of memory cards and opensuse 10.2 recognises them all, luckily. I just prefer the fact that digikam recognises my camera and offers to transfer my picies for me. Cheers Pete *I'll have to admit, moving from SuSE Linux 10.2 to Windows Vista (mandated by my new employer) is brutal. It's an OS that is so, so lacking in what I'm used to that it is cruel. I must write an article about it to counter all the 'moving from windows to linux' stuff you read. Switching back is pretty dreadful. Anyone interested in reading about it? P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

*I'll have to admit, moving from SuSE Linux 10.2 to Windows Vista (mandated by my new employer) is brutal. It's an OS that is so, so lacking in what I'm used to that it is cruel. I must write an article about it to counter all the 'moving from windows to linux' stuff you read. Switching back is pretty dreadful. Anyone interested in reading about it?

Yikes, I'd love to hear it out of morbid curiosity - Count me in on reading about it. I'm making the switch from vista back to win xp pro at work for now also. I have to use windows for administration things. I'm just not switching gfrom open suse to the enterprise version of suse linux with netware stuff running on top of it also. Open suse has served me well at work for our serverxz but It was time to step up to the enterprise version. I'm using what they call nows ( novell open workgroup suite). Just getting it setup an having to pull some novell education from deep within my brain hehehehe. Jack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 29 June 2007 15:25, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

I process >25k photos/year and prefer a usb card-reader.

I also prefer using a card reader.

My photos are sorted: Year.Month.Day.Event/Scene processed and archived (x2) to dvd+

I use a similar scheme that worked out very nicely for me - purely using the file system. That's really cool because I can use plain and simple tools for viewing or to look up photos. Or even to back everything up to USB disk, laptop, over the network or whatever. Database based applications are more complex to handle in that regard. It basically looks like this: /work/photo/ orig/ dvd01/ 2005-08-30-Prag/ 2005-09-10-Barcelona/ 2005-10-16-Pegnitztal/ dvd02/ ... sort/ Germany/ Nuernberg/ Castles/ Rabenstein/ Greifenstein/ Journeys/ Prag/ Barcelona/ import/ 2007-06-28-Hack-Week/ The basic structure should be pretty obvious: I have a directory /work/photo/orig/ where I store the originals as they come from the camera. I create a new subdirectory for each photo outing, prefixed with date and with a descriptive name (2005-09-10-Barcelona). I group them into "dvdXY" subdirectories so I can easily burn them on DVD; I check with KDirStat every once in a while and when the latest dvdXY directory grows beyond 4 GB, I create a new one and move the last couple of subdirectories to that new one until the old one gets below 4 GB. /work/photo/sort is where I put the post-processed photos. There are subdirectories for logical grouping so I can see all photos that belong to any topic together -- say, all photos I shot in the Nuernberg old town. There is also /work/photos/sort/import for photos waiting to be post-processed and sorted. And here comes a twist: I have also a directory /work/photos/by-date/. It mirrors the structure of /work/phots/orig (without the dvdXY in between) so I can quickly see the photos by photo outing - but the post-processed ones, not the unprocessed originals from the camera: /work/photos/by-date/ 2005-08-30-Prag/ 2005-09-10-Barcelona/ 2005-10-16-Pegnitztal/ Each of those subdirs holds symlinks (!) for each photo from that outing to the photo with the same name somewhere under /work/photos/sort/: /work/photos/by-date/2005-09-10-Barcelona/20050910-1648-img_8431.jpg -> /work/photos/sort/Journeys/Barcelona/20050910-1648-img_8431.jpg As you can see, the photos are renamed: I prefix them with the shooting date and time from the EXIF data. I do that immediately upon image import to orig/, so even the photos there bear that kind of name. But it's simple to restore the original file name: Simply remove the date and time prefix. That timestamp within the camera name has several advantages: - All cameras from all vendors wrap their image counter around after 9999: After shooting img_9999.jpg, the next will be img_0001.jpg. That means that file names are no longer unique after 9999 photos. (And yes, it sucks, but it's specified like that). With the date+time prefix, this does not matter any more. - You can use several cameras from the same maker that each use the same naming scheme and dump them into one directory without name clashes. That's particularly nice when throwing together several people's photos from a party or a wedding. And they will even be sorted by time among all cameras when viewing with Konqueor, Kuickshow, Gwenview or other file system based tools. - Photos made with different cameras over time will be sorted chronologically in the sort/ subdirectories. It's always simple to see the latest photos, disregarding vendor-specific naming schemes (Canon uses img_1234.jpg, Sony uses dsc01234.jpg (and that leading 0 is a fake, it won't be used in the image counter; it will wrap around from dsc09999.jpg to dsc00001.jpg). Of course, I use scripts to do most of that stuff: I have a script "photo_rename" (based on "jhead" with a little Perl around it) that renames the photos based on their shooting date and time. And backward, too, if requested. And not double-adding any date+time to files that already have them. I also have a script "photo_clone_by_date" that looks at the orig/ hierarchy, creates a corresponding subdirectory below by-date/, searches below sort/ for files with the same name and creates symlinks (runs ~12 seconds for ~8000 photos in ~200 subdirs below orig/). And I have a script "photo_rsync" (actually little more than a glorified "rsync" call) that helps copying all that stuff from my computer to my USB disk or to my laptop or to my Archos image viewer (copying files rather than creating symlinks for FAT file systems like on that Archos image viewer / MP3 player). Now I know that my approach might not be for everyone. But it might give some ideas. If anybody wants to experiment, here are the scripts (hereby GPLed): http://www.suse.de/~sh/photo-util/ CU -- Stefan Hundhammer Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:27 +0100, jpff wrote:

I am not sure what you are asking, but the system I hacked up to manage my wife's photography habit, at home and when we are away, is a small bit of emacs-lisp that reads the photos with gphoto2, constructs an html page with basic information (date/time; aperture etc) from the exif data, and constructs a thumbnail image to act as a link in the html.

Have you ever looked into using JAlbum? Does most of this and more for you and has a linux port.

I usually travel with this laptop anyway, especially at conferences etc, but on pure holiday it is mainly for photos. The system is completed with the gimp to crop, adjust etc. Her final stages are just usual emacs stuff; deleting, moving pictures to archive directories and editing the index.html file.

Still not sure what question you are asking though!

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My immediate thoughts on JAlbum is that it is in Java, which I do not know, while my code is in Lisp, which is just like thinking.... But then at heart I belong to the "you can use any program as long as you wrote it" tendency. Still, thanks for the suggestion; I will look at it more closely ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org