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what is your linux workflow? (sfba.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/photography

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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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[–] ZkhqrD5o 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My Personal Workflow

Offload everything from the memory card to my trueNAS into a descriptively named folder.
Darktable import and colour grading
Export and sharing
(Maybe if necessary VFX with GIMP)

You're not seeing the edits you do in Darktable in Digicam because Digicam is a library application. You take a finished JPEG there and it will sort it by tags or things it sees in the image through machine vision, etc. Digicam cannot read the instructions Darktable gives in its sidecar ".xmp" files. Export from Darktable to JPEGs and put it into your Digicam folder. Then it will work out.

Edit: Fixed typo.