Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

Frode Petersen fropeter at online.no
Tue Sep 2 14:10:27 UTC 2008


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.

Frode




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