The purpose of the directories is as follows: Within each dated album, the following structure will be used: Beneath this will be an album for each day, named ' yyyy-mm-dd' as a minimum, but when possible, with a suffix relating to the event (e.g. Export full- and re-sized JPEGs for screen and print use with GIMPĪs part of the move, I'm taking the opportunity to completely re-design my file-naming conventions and directory structure for my future work to support this (and, hopefully, any future tool migration - however unlikely), and I'd appreciate your thoughts on what I've come up with - whether you think it's over- or under-engineered, what I might be missing, ways to streamline etc.įirstly, albums will be organised into year directories (2016, 2017, 2018.Edit developed TIFFs (or original TIFFs & JPEGs) with GIMP 2.8.x, saving sessions as.Develop images with Darktable 2.4.3, exporting to TIFF.Where required, convert to DNG with either digiKam or Adobe DNG Converter.

Import, rename, tag, cull and manage photos with digiKam 5.x.Then, I have a couple of older cameras that output TIFF, and others that only produce JPEG.ĭarktable reads numerous RAW formats, but the one it's almost-guaranteed to read is DNG, so for RAW developing, my preference is to use DNG files - either straight from the camera, or converted from the native format using either digiKam or, when necessary, Adobe DNG Converter (which I'm running under WINE). For Pentax, I use DNG format, but I have other cameras that only produce their native manufacturer RAW format (e.g. I'll start by mentioning that I have a variety of cameras. As part of my recent move to Linux, I'm now working with different tools for my photography.

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