I use KPhotoAlbum to manage the about 50 000 photos in my archive. It’s a great, powerful application to tag and find photos. However I find it a bit hard to include the edited versions of photos in the database.
So I’d like to know what would be a good method to work with original photo files and the modified versions?
Here are some ways I can come up with, all having a downside.
- Keep the originals in KPhotoalbum database, modified versions outside this database, maybe under a separate KPA database. Tag all edited originals with ‘edited version available’ tag. Not very handy having to manually start KPA to work with another database and having to tag the edited to be able to use search features on them.
- Both originals and edited in same folders and same KPA database, tag with same tags + original or edited tags. Problem here is that the edited version has different timestamp-> browsing files doesn’t tell you easily if a photo has an edited version available or not.
- Both originals and edited in the same folder and database and use the stacking feature to group the original with the edited version, give them all the same tags. This causes a lot of manual work moving the edited next to the original image.
At the moment I have all edited versions in another folder (managed by the same KPA database as the originals). As the timestamps differ, and I have nef -> tiff -> jpg -workflow also saving the tiff, I have the tiff and jpg sitting alone in the database, far away from the original. Usually I also don’t tag these edited photos. Not good.
So what’s your way of doing this? What kind of features in KPhotoAlbum would make it easier to work with the original + edited version? How do other photo archive apps do this?
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Seems to me like the image editor needs to directly report all file open, save-as, and save-copy operations to the system photo manager.
I save my modified images with a modified filename, in the same location as the original. I modifiy the end of the filename, e.g. IMG0001.NEF -> IMG001_M.jpg, which sorts in-place next to the original. (I also use IMG001.txt which is transformed to IMG001.png using txt2png for annotating slide shows). Any help from an image-archiving tool above this is a bonus, but I can always find my images and modifications of them using standard file-system tools.
The problem comes, of course, when you change photo management tool.
(Incidentally, your TIFF files are probably the least informative and the largest part of your workflow. If you can, then save the raw transform settings instead.)
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