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. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
