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what is your linux workflow? (sfba.social)
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what is your linux workflow?
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I moved to linux about a year ago and have been putting off my photography for some time.
Im now motivated to get back into it and have been trialing some workflows and accidentally deleting all my pictures in the process, luckily I had a backup.

currently my workflow is to use rapid photo downloader, although I ran into an issue with that not being able to load some old dng images but they seem to work fine in darktable.

then I was using dark table only but I deleted all my photos somehow by using the import tool I guess incorrectly,

now Im using digikam for managing my entire library since it feels like it is much quicker than darktable at doing that, and with a selfhosted mysql I can use it on multiple machines, then when I want to edit I just have it open in darktable, but I dont see the edits in digikam afterward.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You won't see your darktable edits in digikam unless you export a jpeg of your edit. Digikam can't run darktable's processing pipeline to show you that edit.

My workflow is as follows:

  1. Script that uses exiftool copies and renames all images from SD Card to my local disk in format YYYY-MM-DD
  2. Add all images to git-annex
  3. Retrieve GPS logs from phone and copy the GPX file into the correct date folder.
  4. Add GPX file to git (not git annex)
  5. Open Geeqie and look thru new pictures. Press D key to open an image in darktable if I want to edit it.
  6. Once all images culled in geeqie, move over to darktable. Edit and tag. apply geolocation using the gpx file. Export when the edits are finished.