Linux photogs, help me out. What does your workflow look like? What apps do you use?

I’ve found that digikam is really good for managing my keywords and metadata, and organising photos post shoot, but the image editing is limited.

And using separate image editing software leads to problems, because my camera’s raw files (.cr3) aren’t very well supported.

I can make it work, by using Lightroom online, but it’s not exactly an integrated system due to its cloud based design.

I’ve tried running Lightroom in a VM, but ran in to trouble giving the VM access to my GPU…

So those who have made it work, what does it look like for you?

  • Jeena
    3•8 months ago

    Mine is pretty easy, I import the pics with a shell script from the sdcard into a date based file structure: ~/Pictures/YYYY/MM/DD/

    Then I use Dark table to look through the imported pictures and give them 1-5 stars and mark which ones to delete. Then I delete the ones to delete. And then I go through the ones I want to use for something and edit them. After that I export them as jpeg and publish.

    As backup I use synology drive and back up ~/Photos offsite and use DejaDup to backup ~/ to a USB hard drive.