Re: F-Spot Quarantine Idea

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

Hi

Latest SVN has the Import Roll function, which enables you to select all
photos which was imported on a particular import session.
Then it is easy to tag and modify only the related photos (say 10 - 200
in this session) and now see the other 20.000 or so photos in your
collection.

/Bengt

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 07:59 -0400, Richard Krone wrote:
> F-Spot Quarantine
> 
> Often I find myself using Nautilus Scripts that I found in Synaptic to
> rotate groups of images. I do not know if this Nautilus script does
> the rotation through the EXIF data or through a hard rotation. I also
> do not know if it harms or degrades the quality of the JPEG images
> that I use it on. What I do know is that I find it much easier to be
> able to just look inside a folder, which my camera names by the date
> and sort them discretely rather than import them into the masses of
> other images in F-Spot un-rotated and unsorted.
> 
> It would be an excellent feature to have a category named say
> "Quarantine - XX/XX/XXXX (date)" where upon the import screen an
> end-user could set as their default category for all new imports. Thus
> allowing an end-user such as myself to import each day a batch of
> images and not worry about processing them immediately or facing the
> probably of forgetting when and what I imported.
> 
> I do this manually now but I think that having this type of thing
> automated would be nice. There are even other ways to auto label this
> category such as "Un-Sorted 001" or any word followed by some
> automated numbering scheme. The end-user should be able to create this
> naming scheme in the preferences and alter it at any time.
> 
> In fact right now I have these categories that are created and require
> my attention still but by using the filtering capabilities of F-Spot I
> am assured that some day I will get to these and not forget that they
> have yet to be processed.
> 
> Quarantine - 06/10/2006
> Quarantine - 06/14/2006
> Quarantine - 06/28/2006
> Quarantine - 07/04/2006
>