Using Tags in GThumb

Detlev Zundel — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:54:56 GMT

I guess most people have their own way of organizing lots of digital images efficiently. Most of them probably use databases for organization even though there are standardized ways to put metadata into the image files themselves. This blog post will detail my approach based on manipulating only the image files themselves rather than putting a database "on top", or other abstractions external to the files themselves.

The GThumb application from the GNOME Project is my preferred tool to organize digital images. Up until I wanted to work only on subsets of the original images, the standard functionality was good enough for my very amateurish needs. In the previous years we used to manually copy individual files into separate directories for different further processing. Such a procedure leaves a lot of duplicate files behind and does not record the selection process in the original files themselves. After cleaning up the left behinds from those previous years I set out to establish a better procedure this time. The aim was to enable an easy process to select pictures relevant for different groups of persons all the while recording the process in the original image files. The tagged files are then collected with a short script into individual directories for further processing, e.g. for creating a picture book out of them.

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Using Tags in GThumb