 Really? Cool. So, that's it. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, now we're going to teach you our idea. This is one of the names that I actually can't pronounce properly. To teach you. To teach you is fine. To talk about Ludicam, because he's a Ludicam ninja. And we're going to learn a few tricks from the guy himself. Well, thank you. Thank you. And before we start, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I don't have any slides. And the bad news is that I'm going to do a demo on Open Suzy Tumbleweed. And I just pray that everything works. It doesn't just lay there. So, let me say that I'm really happy to see so many people here. Because I'm competing with a very interesting talk in another room. And I thought that if I had someone, I could talk just a single person. I'm certainly considering the success. But I can see a lot of things. I'm very happy to see. So, the original idea was to give a workshop where I start with explaining my personal photographic workflow. And then dive into an individual feature and give you a depth look into some functionality of Ludicam. But since I only have half an hour, more or less, I will do it another way around. I'll show you some features that I find very interesting. And they can be very useful for you to know and master. And then if I have time, I'll give you a group in a demo of my personal workflow. So, let's dive into it. My first personal favorite is so-called image quality search. Let's imagine a situation and that's probably something pretty much all of you can relate. You go to a vacation and an interest in another country. You get back home. You have something like 3,000 and 4,000. Some of them are inevitably either out of focus, underexposed or overexposed. And they're just cracking. So, you need to sort them out. So, if you do this manually, you can do that. But it's like gardening with a teaspoon. So, I've recently introduced a new feature called image quality search, which allows you to automate this task. And this feature allows you to sort out photos that are either not in focus or blurry, that are noisy, with a very high compression rate and compression ratio. So, they have some compression artifacts and so on. The good thing about this feature is that it doesn't do anything to your photos. It just marks them as such. And it uses three flags that are already available in DigiPen. Accentives or photos that are in English in a certain quality. So, I consider them fine. And painting for photos that aren't decided, maybe they are good, maybe they are not, and maybe they are not good. So, it's still an experimental feature. So, it's a bit of a hidden miss. Sometimes it marks photos that are perfectly okay as bad for a variety of reasons. For example, I photograph a lot of concrete buildings that have very rough texture. And it often happens that image quality is sort of considered as a noisy photo. So, but as I said, the good thing is that it doesn't do anything to your photos, except marking them as bad or good or whatever. It has some same defaults, which you can try. I would suggest if you want to try this feature, create a separate album, put some photos good and bad, and run image quality sort of a couple of times and try to find it in the default settings. This feature is not enabled by default in DigiPen, so you have to enable it in the settings menu. And that is for good reason, because it's still much as experimental. Once you've done that, there is a very nice tool in DigiPen called Maintenance, that allows you to perform a lot of housekeeping and design, including image quality sort of. So you just hit the OK button and it should do the job. It seems that nothing happens here, but let's pretend that some of the photos are marked with flags. And you know, you will need to know what to do with these photos. So let's say, yeah, it's finished, it's done, and as you can see that it's actually pretty good at marking photos. Let's see what we have here. For example, this is definitely something I would kind of see in photos, and on K-Portal, but it was marked as pending, meaning that image quality sort is not sure whether it's good or bad. And once you've done that, you can do the labels sidebar to quickly locate the photos you want. For example, if you want to find all the photos that are considered good, you choose the accept types and you will see all the good photos. Then you can copy them to another location or whatever you want. Or you can see all the photos that are mainly good or many bad. You can use the pending filter to find these photos. So this way you can quickly sort your collection and read out the photos that people want. So, next feature is geotiging. How many of you use geotiging? Did you come? No one. Do you geotig the photos? Okay, you really should. Because this is a really cool feature of functionality. Actually, it's not a feature. It's a time module that allows you to geotig photos in a variety of ways. For example, say I want... I took photos in Tokyo and I want to geotig them as such. So I go to this one. So this opens a dedicated interface for geotiging photos that we just recited so you can let us see this. So there are several things you can do here. First of all, the easiest and the latest way to geotig a photo is to simply do a search. For example, these photos were taken some way in Tokyo. Let's say... Tokyo. And this gives me the possible matches. So from here, there are two ways I can go. I can either locate the marker on the map, fortunately or unfortunately, these photos are already geotagged. So I can locate the marker on the map and then just drag the photos on the map. There are the more convenient way of doing things is to select all photos, right-click on the desired location and choose one select image to list. It works some, it works with the microphone. And then, yeah, choose a move to list position, the command. Another thing you can do if you're really dedicated to geotiging is to have a geotracking application in your mobile device that records and tracks some GBX format in the GBX format and then use the geotigging module in DigiGun to geocorrelate your photos. This requires some dedication because you have to remember to sync time on your mobile device and your camera then have to remember to activate the tracking on your mobile device to transfer a lot of luck. So that is only for dedicated users but it's very, very nice to be able to do that because this way you can geotag hundreds or even thousands of photos in one go. My favorite thing way to geotag photos is a little bit different. So whenever I photograph with my proper camera, I have my smartphone with me with a camera that supports geotagging so I snap what I call the reference image with my smartphone and it's automatically geotagged. So I need things automatically to thank you. Thank you very much. This is all the photos from my smartphone to Google photos and the nice thing about it is that let's hope that there are no e-commerce photos here. Okay, this is the photo I took today and the good thing is that I have coordinates. The bad thing is that it's a format that is not understood by DigiGun so I don't want a very simple batch script that does this for me. So I'm going to re-format the coordinate text into a DigiGun compatible geo format. And I have no program by any stretch of imagination so don't hit me on the head with the stick when you see the code. I don't know if you can see, but it's only three lines and the first one uses the content of the view board and the TR tool to remove just three white spaces and then it uses multiple send things to inform me that it has the coordinates and the coordinates are there correct data, correct informing data back to the view board. So this basically works something like this and this is the scary part because I have all the orders. It does. So as you can see there is an indication that within the geotagged recording it has been processed and clocked into the keyboard and then all I have to do is to select the photos I want the geotag and the geotag module right click and save paste. It's actually much faster and easier than it sounds so if you want to try this script or if you want to improve it and you have any ideas how to improve it you are most welcome. The code is hosted on deep lab and it's just the same. So far so good. Let's get back to the photo album. So there is another feature that I like a lot. I don't know about you, but I like filters and I actually use Digicam to create my own filters. It's not filters, it's more like a two sets. I have my own collection of presets that I would particularly like. So let's see if we can do something about one of these photos. So let's see. I would like to create a simple retro look for my photos. The easiest way to do that is to lower the contrast. I'm exaggerating this a bit so you can actually see something on the screen. Now let's introduce some color shift. This. And let's adjust the gross. Okay, I like this. Very nice. The problem is that I have dozens of other photos I would like to apply this effect to. So the idea of doing this for every single photo is not exactly accurate. So what I can do, I can use a new feature in Digicam that supports so-called hard cloud tables. These are basically color lookup tables, or tables that allow the application to perform color transformation. And it's actually very easy to use because it's supported by the convert tool in Image Magic. So you can create around a simple command and this command gives you this very nice, tricky looking table. What do you do then? You put this table into Digicam, open it for editing, all the exact effects and color transformation you want. Like I showed you reduced contrast, introduced color shift, and adjust gross. And then you save this file and move it into a location where Digicam has all its cloud tables. And what you get is if you open the photo for editing, if you open it for editing, then go to effects, color effects. You will actually see your effects in the list of the presets. Like in my case I named my preset RetroTastic. I copied it into the location and then it's there. So this way, applying effects is just a matter of... Actually you don't even need to click on it because... Yes? Ah, I'm sorry. Yes, so these are presets. This is the one I added myself. So this is what you can add as many presets as you like. And basically you can do any operation or any color modification operation, I must say. And save it as a preset. And finally, this is a little bit geeky. I don't know whether you need it, but I sort of like to play with metadata. As you may or may not know, Digicam saves everything in the SQLite database. And the good thing is that you can extract this data and analyze it. And for example, I use several digital cameras and sometimes I would like to know which camera do I actually use most? Maybe I should sell another one. So I created a simple script, simple by definition because I'm in a program. That does this for me. So all I need to do is provide the best, all I have to do is copy it into my path and then I can use a parameter. This script supports two parameters. What is cameras? The cameras I use and how many times I use them. I hope you can see the text. And the good thing is that it also imports the data in the commit security, as a commit security file, so you can easily import it in any spreadsheet, application, in a... if you're into it, you can even make nice looking graphs. And you can do the same with lenses. Which can be useful if you have several lenses or you are planning to buy a lens. Do you think, what is actually my favorite focal length? Which camera... Which lens do I actually use? Which focal length is my favorite? Like, for example, I have a zoom lens and I would like to invest in anything in a primary lens and I need to figure out, okay, do I need 50mm or 85mm or whatever? So I can just run the script with the lenses parameter and this gives me all the lenses I'm using on photos and all the lenses. So the script itself is very simple, as I said. If you look at it, it's just a bunch of if-then statements with some squirrel inquiries, queries. And you can extend it anyway you want. And you can take a look at the table in the digital database called Image Metadata. So you can take a look at it and see what fields are available and what data is available and you can do all kinds of interesting things if you're into it. So, how am I doing in time? It's more than just a question. Okay, I suggest that let's do questions and answers because it's supposed to be a dialogue or I would like to make it a dialogue or I would like to hear your experience of Digicam and if you have any tips and tricks and stuff. So please go ahead. And if I have some more time then I will introduce you to my own workflow. I've been using Digicam as my primary and actually my primary for the management application since 2010. So, pretty much in seven years I've been obsessively developing my own workflow and I don't know whether I should be proud of it or embarrassed and the fact that I use so much time on this. But it's actually pretty simple. I use Digicam for everything. I have important photos to share with them and the first thing I do, I import them. I don't think I have time to show you the name but I'll show you something different. So, the import module allows you to rename photos in a variety of ways. For example, I prefer to rename my photo by date and time so I can immediately see and if you take a look at my collection I can immediately see when the photo has been taken. This one was in July 2017. And to do that you can simply use the rename feature in the import module and the advantage of this approach is that as soon as you import the Digicam does a darn good job for you and it's just the rename on photos automatically. And it works very simple but there is another feature that uses the same type of functionality is their name. So you basically choose date and time as an option that you select whatever format you like. You can even select the custom format and then specify your own format. I prefer to name it like year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds. And actually here you can already see the result. So when you import photos, Digicam automatically remains with all the photos that you have in your database or in Digicam. So the second thing is tagging and flagging the photos. So I use these flags to tag the photos so I can quickly see what I want to do with them. For example, photos that I immediately like and I think that was pretty good in the shorts. I use the green flag to mine. If I'm not sure whether the photos are good or bad maybe I should process it later. Then I use the yellow flag and I just immediately discover the photos I don't like so there is no need for the red flag. And that's the next thing I do. And this is also a very nifty feature if you shoot in both RAW and JPEG. As you can see on this screen I have duplicates of every photo. That's because I have both RAW files and JPEGs. So to work only with JPEGs you can choose a filter called mine filter and say okay I would like to see only JPEG files and it will automatically hide all the RAW files. I then process the photos and what I do at the end I stack them so that each stack contains both RAW file, JPEG and the process photo. This is my personal approach and I started using it way before DigiCon introduced versioning so there is the new version DigiCon allows you to do all that automatically using the version functionality. But the problem with this approach is that when you use version you can end up with multiple files for each photo and if you do something outside DigiCon with your photos that would be a problem because your artist will be needed with files that may or may not have any value. So once I've done that I can use various options to find my photos and to filter them. The thing is that I don't put photos or categorize photos in albums because DigiCon does this for me and DigiCon has all the features you need to find and filter the photos. So theoretically, and that's how I do it I just put everything in one root album and I just use the features that DigiCon offers. For example, the left part, side part contains the dates section and here DigiCon automatically shows you all the photos need to be organized by date, year, month and so on. So to find all photos taken in 2014 I just go here and if I would like to find all photos taken in April I go here and I can view down the hierarchy all the way down or I can use the timeline section which is just another way of showing my photos but they are presented at these very nice bars and what these bars mean is that I don't know if you can see this this is May, this is September and the next one is January. So that's when I took some photos and the size of the bar, maybe, indicates how many photos there are so apparently according to this database I took most photos in May and I can actually see them right away. And then we talk a little bit about geotagging and here is another level thing let's say you want to see all your photos you took on your trip to Paris you can use the map search interface and you can just zoom on the photos you like or you can draw a rectangle around the area which you would like to view and did you know, I don't know if you can see this that I draw as a region and it shows all the photos in this region so that's pretty much mine workflow so if you have good ideas how it can be improved or if you have any questions raise a hand okay what's the current state of things on Windows? no, because it's not I know that there is a volunteer doing packaging for Windows and as far as I know I don't use Windows so as far as I know he's pretty active I mean he releases Windows installers like maybe two or three days after official release of Digicam by the way I don't know if you know that starting with version 5.5 I think Digicam is available as an app release package so the good news is that you can try the new version without installing it on file from sourcepro and that's a really nice feature I don't know if it's a feature it's a very nice thing to have to be able to run the application without installing it the downside, it's a little bit slow on the start because as the lead developer told me it does create some virtual file system and I have no idea what I'm talking about and that takes time but yeah it's a very nice way to try I answered your question have you tried a termination or a detection? does it work? it works it's still market-experimental for the last probably three or even five years it works but it could lead to some funny results like especially if you have images of animals it might recognise them as people and if you have pictures of animals and your girlfriend doing the same album that could lead to very undesirable results but yeah it works but it's not perfect yeah I know I'm not tired but the good news is that there is profit rate right after that ok thank you very much guys