On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 08:20 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 30/1/18 12:22 am, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 07:49 -0500, William Oliver wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 12:27 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Looking for some advice here. I have a large set of old slides > > > > (transparencies) which I'm currently scanning for the family, but of > > > > course many of them are out of order. Clearly they don't have EXIF > > > > information (they were taken in the 70s and 80s). I'm looking for a > > > > way > > > > to order them *visually* after scanning, but the usual apps (Digikam, > > > > Shotwell, Lightroom) don't seem to be able to do this. They only > > > > understand machine-readable sorting, e.g. by the file mod date, size, > > > > exposure data etc., none of which is useful in this case. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > poc > > > > > > I think the buzzword for searching for software is "gallery," and > > > most of them are web-based. I use pwigo (www.pwigo.orgorg ), which has a > > > manual sort option (though you have to dig in a little to find it). > > > > It's actually piwigo, but thanks. I'll take a look. > > > > > But if you're not serving a web page somewhere, I don't know. There's > > > always the Wikipedia page to sort through, I guess, though I don't find > > > that useful as often as I hope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis > > > on_of_photo_gallery_software > > > > I'm already using Google Photos, which I suppose counts as a gallery, > > but it can get a bit slow when dealing with large batches so I > > generally use it for sharing the final results. My idea was to find a > > tool to process photos locally before uploading them. I'll check out > > that Wikipedia page in any case. > > I do most of my photo editing with Photoshop Elements/Organiser in > Windows, which potentially has the capability you are looking for > particularly via organiser, but I'm not sure of the graphic quality if > running it from a VM (when I tried in the past I wasn't able to get it > to install and work under wine). I haven't played around much with > similar photo editing tools under Linux, but I'm wondering if > 'Rawtherapee' or 'DarkTable' have the functionality you are looking for? > If I remember correctly, both packages are in the Fedora repositories. Neither of these is really what I'm looking for. They have lots of tools for image manipulation, which might be useful at a later stage, but don't address the question of just manually ordering the files. Possibly they could be arm-twisted into doing this by means of copying, as could Digikam, Shotwell etc., but it's a lot of overkill for what is in principal a very simple requirement: the files were scanned in a certain order, but I want to reorder them in the sequence the shots were actually taken. This has to be manual because the files have no EXIF information. I appreciate that this is a rather specific requirement so I'm not that surprised that it isn't supported. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
