Hello,
I am using digiKam for my DAM and now have ventured into exploring RawTherapee to process raw images.
However it seems that ratings, tags, color flagging etc. from digiKam is not read by RawTherapee.
Is there a way to save this information in the images/ xmp so that RT will read it?
darktable does the job just fine.
Thanks
RawTherapee does not use XMP, but recently gained the ability to read ratings from XMP files.
If you’ve upgraded to the latest RT 5.7, this should work.
You need to make sure you checked the “write to sidecar files” box in digiKam though
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-metadata
after updating I now see the ratings,
thanks
that is checked already, thanks.
Another question arises with jpegs, RT should be able to read IPTC tags written into them, right?
Do I need to check anything else in dK to have the tags written to XMP and into the jpeg itself?
here are my current settings (albeit in German 
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I do not know enough about IPTC unfortunately.
There is Advanced Metadata section in digikam settings though. Theoretically you can write whatever information you want in JPGs’ metadata but I have never played with it myself.
RawTherapee 5.7 uses the dead libiptcdata for IPTC support, and so some modern tags are missing and IPTC tags are not written to all output formats. Hopefully 5.8 will use libexiv2. Doublecheck that the IPTC tags you depend on are written correctly to the output files before you build a workflow around that.
If you use tagging in digikam extensively, you’ll probably need a step for that in your workflow (if anyone knows a simpler way, I am all ears - and looking forward to exiv2 integration 
): When exporting a file from a raw image, I copy all metadata from the source (xmp sidecar of the raw) to the exported file (if I remember correctly e.g. exiftools -tagsfromfiles *sourcexmp* -all:all>all:all *exportedfile*).
Careful with blindly copying all tags, some image format combinations will get screwed up.