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.
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Chris Green