Moving images

[pgman]

Hi,

I'm having some workflow problem. I need to trim down 25,000 photos down to a few hundreds.

* Directory
* Directory/all
* Directory/potentials
* Directory/selected
* Directory/ready

"/all" has 25,000 photos. I go in chunks, I picks the one that look good (around 10%), no processing, I just mark them with pick. How do I move them to the potentials directory (short of making a list and moving them at the command line)? I was hoping to filter and export but I can only export as tiff or jpeg.

Any suggestion?

Thank you

[Dutchmm]

You could make a preset to apply each stage of judgement as a keyword, and then write out the XMP files for the batch on which you are working. It seems that ASP will not write star ratings or colour codes into the xmp files. I don't quite believe that, but I can't find the xmp tags to prove that it is writing them.

Now, to move the files from (say) the ALL directory to the Potential directory, you use a script like this:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to copy files and XMP from candidate directory to candidate-stage-plus-1 directory
# Based on recognising the next stage keyword
#
# Usage: stagecopy stagename
#
# Parameter 1: Name of keyword (and next directory)
# Assumption: all directories are at the same level in the tree
#
THISDIR=`pwd`
THISNODE=`echo $THISDIR | sed -e "s:^.*\/::g"`
THATDIR=`echo $THISDIR | sed -e "s:THISNODE:$1:"`


for f in `find $THISDIR -name *.xmp`; do
if egrep -q keywordlist.*Potential $f
then
cp $f $THATDIR
RAWFILE=`echo $f | sed -e "s:\.xmp::g"`
cp $RAWFILE $THATDIR
fi
done

The only thing is, to avoid re-copying files you have already shifted, you will have to delete their xmp files from the current directory, or delete the stagename from their keyword list. If no one comes up with a better solution than mine, we can revisit this.

HTH

Mike

[afx]

I go in chunks, I picks the one that look good (around 10%), no processing, I just mark them with pick. How do I move them to the potentials directory (short of making a list and moving them at the command line)?

Filter on Pick, select all and drag them over...
Where is the problem?

cheers
afx

[pgman]

Filter on Pick, select all and drag them over...
Where is the problem?

The problem is my "real computer" crashed. I was using Lightroom for collections. But the real problem is firing a couple of neurons at the same time.

Thank you

[pgman]

The only thing is, to avoid re-copying files you have already shifted, you will have to delete their xmp files from the current directory, or delete the stagename from their keyword list. If no one comes up with a better solution than mine, we can revisit this.

Thank you, this gave me an idea. I can be very dangerous when I fire multiple neurons at the same time and I can even come up with a legitimate idea.

Thank you

[Dutchmm]

I'm glad I sparked a neuron or two...

In the meantime, to contradict what I said about stars and ratings, they are exported in the xmp; at least in the ASP xmp format. They are respectively bopt:rating with the number of stars as the value, and bopt:label which seems to have the following values:

0 No Colour
2 Yellow
3 Green
4 Blue

By interpolation we can guess that Red is 1 and 5 is Purple.

I hope this will help sort the files without nixing any edit information you already have in your xmp files.

Mike