Tagging With F-Spot
Inpired by Lars’ excellent photo tagging, I have decided to shine up my photo collection. Since mono is much more integrated in Fedora Core 5 I decided to try and use of the fancy new C# applications I have been reading so much about. I had already read some good things about F-spot so I decided to try that out. I downloaded it easily using yum and started it up. F-spot has a very nice GUI and I had quickly imported about 1800 photos into it. Importing photos however, is a small part of the job and I have now embarked on the enormous task of tagging all the pictures. So far I have 32 different tags, and that number keeps increasing as I tag more and more pictures. When I have tagged all of them I have some more pictures still waiting for processing :). This is tedious work, but it should be easy to keep update when adding new pictures. I really like the concept/idea of tagging pictures since I can use all the tags I want, it is a much more convenient way of working compared to just having the pictures organized in the ever-so-common “albums” where you have to limit the pictures to a single album.
F-spot can export its database to varius web based formats, but do not expect to see all my pictures online anytime soon. First I need a place to put them (it’s more than one gig) and I might need to apply some censorchip as well :)
Good idea about tagging your photos! I wish I had done so with mine… :-)
As for the hosting, then I’ve always hosted my ~10 GiB photos on my own machine since it seemed impossible/difficult to find a webhost that would allow me to upload that amount of data. There are some webhosts that claim to give you free space, but in their detailed terms and conditions they always write something like “free space means up to 5 GiB”… But I guess that would be enough for you the first year or so… and if you don’t upload each and every photo, then it should last significantly longer.
Well, I started the same process. However, I discovered half-way through that F-Spot does not seem to support finding images with multiple tags (i.e. give me all images with tag A AND tag B, not OR). Or perhaps it does… any ideas?
GB
No it is correct that f-spot does not support semi-sophisticated boolean combinations of the tag. However as f-spot is still in rapid development and since such a feature is relatively straighforward to implement I am not too worried about this. Actually a patch to do just this is already attached to bug # 139796 and it is mentioned in the over view of New Features too.