Custom collection a-la Lightroom

Software darktable
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Hello fellow dt users,

Quick question. Is there a way to make custom collections in dt, solely based on user selection? I am thinking about the common task of picking a set of pictures for a book, for example, and save the selection for further editing or perhaps for future purposes.

In Lightroom this is very easy, you simply create a new Collection (which looks like a folder in the interface) and drag and drop the selected pictures into it.

In dt, a possible strategy that comes to my mind is to create a unique hierarchical tag for the collection (e.g. “my collections|summer 2023 book”) and apply it to all selected pictures. Is this the way to go?

Thanks for any comments!

Giuseppe

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Yes you’ll need some way to allow darktable to uniquely identify those images, and a tag seems a reasonable way to do this. The only real alternative I can think is to move or copy the files to another directory.

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That’s the way I do it, markind that whole tag hierarchy as private and disabling the export of private tags on the export module settings.

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Thanks, good call about the private tag, I hadn’t thought of that!