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"But darktable seems to be able to edit a batch of images at once so you don't have to manually edit each one. But should you?" => It can be useful for pictures
by louhike 9y ago
"But darktable seems to be able to edit a batch of images at once so you don't have to manually edit each one. But should you?" => It can be useful for pictures taken in a similar context. Like you might want to set the temperature if they were taken at the same moment and you want the same atmosphere. But you don't to have the sames values for all parameters for all your pictures.
"Do I really need a star rating system?" => Not really in most use-cases, the flags are enough (rejected and accepted).
- IgorPartola 9y agoHow do you organize things like "those are from this shoot on location" and "these are from the studio shoot?" Do you do that using the filesystem, or only inside darktable?
- maxxxxx 9y agoI use folders. I think most people do.
- Razengan 9y agomacOS tags work great for these things, especially when a single item belongs in more than one folder. These days I use folders primarily for organizing tasks that must be tied to the filesystem, such as making backups, and for representing entire projects or super-categories. For anything more nuanced I just apply some of my 100+ or so tags. e.g., if you collect “reaction” images, most images may show more than one emotion (angry, happy, sad, etc.), so you just lump them in one folder and tag each image with the relevant elements. Same for people and characters that may appear in more than one series, and images that will have more than one character, so instead of folders named after a series or character, you just have a “Movies” or “Anime” etc. folder and tag each image with the series’ name and the characters in it.