Looking for a Picture Management Program#

[John L Fjellstad]

Chris G <cl at isbd.net> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:49:03PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
>> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I know digikam has other 'views' (by date and by collection) but using
>> > these you lose all of the album names.  I want to be able to name my
>> > albums with meaningful names (e.g. "Spain, holiday") but keep them in
>> > chronological order.  This seems such an obvious thng to want to do
>> > that it amazes me that there isn't an image management program out
>> > there that can do it.
>> 
>> Have you tried tagging the pictures?  WhenI look at my tags in digiKam,
>> I get it by tag, and sub view by album name and date.
>> 
> I do use tagging in digikam but I don't see how it helps much in
> getting what I want as described above.
>
> Are you suggesting that I tag images with their date or what exactly?
>
> For example if I want to see pictures/images for, say, October 1987
> how would I tag them so that I see that in October 1987 I have images for:-
>
>     The horses in the orchard
>     Holiday in Venice
>     Maxine for publicity
>
> ?

Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you wanted in terms of wanting
albums.

The way I set it up is that I just removed the concept of albums, and I
just tag everything.
So I would tag something like Places, London, Big Ben for instance.

Hmm...

When I got to the My Dates tab, I do get it sorted by albums and dates.
So, if I click on a year/month, I get all the albums that have pictures
for that date.  Isn't that what you are looking for?


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