XMP is the newer (introduced in 2001) method of storing metadata but it still (2017) doesn’t seem to be adopted everywhere – in fact most of the software I tried out while trying to understand what was going on only seemed to access the IPTC data. Digikam supports tag hierarchies but there are a few caveats you need to know about in order to use them correctly.Īs far as I can tell Digikam writes tags to two different metadata blocks(1): XMP and IPTC. Mostly that just means a tag for the basic category, people in the photo and if it warrants it a more detailed category. I like to tag my photos so that it’s easier to find relevant images in the future. In a worst case scenario where you lose your Digikam database you can recover essentially all the information from the files themselves. You’ll spend a lot of time tagging or otherwise adding metadata to images and it really makes sense to store that information in the file as well as the database Digikam uses. The most important settings in Digikam are under Settings > Metadata, the check boxes on this page decide what metadata information gets written to the images such as tags and ratings.
DIGIKAM TRASH UPGRADE
For the most part Digikam is a massive upgrade over Picasa but a few things in Digikam don’t necessarily work quite as I’d expect them to.
I’ve recently switched from Picasa (which has been retired) to Digikam for photo management and I’ve noticed a few quirks that I need to document to or I’ll forget them.
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