Re: Sorting photos

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:15 +0200, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> * Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>:
> > If you tagg all the photos with Country, State, City, Location, Type
> > (Beach, Mountain, Vacation, or whatever), Persons (all persons who is
> > in the photo). 
> > 
> > With those tags you should be able to find whatever photo you want
> > very quickly. You could also add a more tags like xmas, birthday,
> > trip # etc to make it even more flexible and make each photo contain
> > more information about itself.
> 
> Still a lot of work. :)
> And it would make me quite dependant on f-spot (not that I intend to
> switch), so the sorting with folders would be better.
> Looks like f-spot can't do that yet, so I'll make  a feature request.
> "Arrange by folder" simply needs to work a little better and marking
> several files without using Ctrl would be really useful as well.
> 

True, but F-Spot stores all the tag in standard XMP format embedded in
the photos, so you will still be able to get the tags.
Also, F-Spot stores all the photos in date order by default (unless you
choose to just link to the original location), so you will be able to
find the photos anyway nicely.

If you do not tag the persons and locations it will be much more
difficult to find a particular photo a few years down the track. I would
strongly suggest you tag them as I described above, and ensure that the
tags are stored in a standard way embedded in the photo. Otherwise you
will be locked to the particular software for sure.

/Bengt