Bug 310270

Summary: Assign camera color profile while importing
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Juergen Karbach <HJKarbach>
Component: Import-PostProcessingAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Juergen Karbach 2012-11-18 02:49:43 UTC
Taking photographs over a day will almost need different camera profiles in case of changing locations and light situations. Therefore it will be convinient to have a workflow that matches all images of each certain light situation (task) with their camera profile automatically.

Short explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q89NW8jtn_8&feature=related
More detailed explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m44L8o2Fwk

But this (LR)workflow isn't as convinient as it could be and 
the profiling program is only available for Windows and OS-X.

And, why this few manually clicks?
Only the (man readable) naming of the metadata template is needed.

Here a possible automated workflow.
To assign the images to the right profile you need to tag the colortarget photo first
(e.g. the first image of the task subdirectory - canon105, canon106, ..., 
or - if no subdirectories possible - the target images can determined by its "Date and Time" Exif-Tag.
At the point of  import into digikam its necessary to create a profile (via lprof ?) 
and then create a new metadata template, which will be assigned to the followed images
as long as the next colortarget image is detected or the last image has been processed.