I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution.
I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want.
I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
*Surely* people want to be able to do this. Currently in my case it's simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip, one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction. I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order from the best images selected from the two albums. I can't find any way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I select it and even then if I change my mind and want to add one in the middle somewhere I've got a horrible re-ordering problem again.
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:18 +0100, Chris G wrote:
I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
*Surely* people want to be able to do this.
Yes, I know what you mean. I resorted to HTML albums through my webserver, writing the HTML to display a gallery to my preferences. Which does mean that any PC on the LAN can view them without needing anything special, but may be more malarkey than you want to deal with, and a pain if you want a slideshow view (doable, but more of a hassle to write the pages to work both ways).
The alternative was to name files like you wrote line numbers for BASIC programming back in the 1980s - you increment file numbers by ten, by default, leaving space for insertions.
Another alternative would be to use a presentation program, like OpenOffice.org Impress (no, not really, I don't like it much...). With one of them, you can drop images into them in the sequence that you want, it doesn't care how they're dated or named.
Chris G:
I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution.
I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want.
I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
*Surely* people want to be able to do this. Currently in my case it's simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip, one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction. I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order from the best images selected from the two albums. I can't find any way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I select it and even then if I change my mind and want to add one in the middle somewhere I've got a horrible re-ordering problem again.
You might have tried this already, but let me explain my approach with digiKam:
I store all images in albums named with year/week the pictures were taken. I label all the pictures with different types of data, one being the occation the image was taken at. I then choose to view the images by label instead of by album.
So, in your case, you could create a label for that trip, and a sublabel for 'preferred to view'. Then show the pictures having that label.
Frode
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
Chris G:
I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution.
I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want.
I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
*Surely* people want to be able to do this. Currently in my case it's simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip, one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction. I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order from the best images selected from the two albums. I can't find any way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I select it and even then if I change my mind and want to add one in the middle somewhere I've got a horrible re-ordering problem again.
You might have tried this already, but let me explain my approach with digiKam:
I store all images in albums named with year/week the pictures were taken. I label all the pictures with different types of data, one being the occation the image was taken at. I then choose to view the images by label instead of by album.
So, in your case, you could create a label for that trip, and a sublabel for 'preferred to view'. Then show the pictures having that label.
... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order and not the order I want.
... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order and not the order I want.
You're absolutely right! I should have read the message more thoroughly. I thought you had two sequences of images and wanted to choose one or the other of each pair (i.e. 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A...)
I haven't been able to find a way to do what you describe, short of copying the images into a new album and renaming them. One would think that manual sorting was a natural thing to do when creating galleries or presentations, but there was no such thing in those plugins either.
gThumb is supposed to be able to use manual sorting, but that option was grayed out in the menu on this system.
Maybe there is a separate app for handling slideshows and galleries geared a bit more towards pro photography that could have sort of a virtual lightbox?
Frode
2008/9/2 Frode Petersen fropeter@online.no:
gThumb is supposed to be able to use manual sorting, but that option was grayed out in the menu on this system.
gThumb allows manual ordering, but only for pictures in a catalog, not in a directory. So what you do is put all the pictures in a new catalog and sort them the way you like. If you do a slideshow then, it will be in your own ordering.
Niels
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