How can I run a digiKam slideshow using only JPEG files and skip RAW+JPEG duplicates?
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I store both RAW and JPEG versions of my photos in the same folders in digiKam. Grouping them by filename works well for rating and face tagging, but when I start a fullscreen slideshow I end up seeing both the RAW and JPEG versions. Is there a way to show only the JPEG files in a slideshow, or otherwise avoid the RAW+JPEG duplicates?
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There's a bit of an "X-Y problem" in the headline question - as far as I know it's a bit of a pain to exclude a certain type of image.
Fortunately, it's very easy to set up a slideshow with only the pictures you want to see, particularly when this is a type of file (for example only .jpg).
Change the display to the "Table" format (assuming it wasn't on that already - Digikam usually defaults to thumbnails). Click at the top of the column to sort by "Type". Click on the first .jpg, then shift-click on the last to block select.
[If you want to get fancy, CTRL-click lets you select and deselect any files you want - this approach also works from the thumbnail display, and could be used after "Select all" to exclude specific files if you really wanted to do it that way.]
At the right of the "Slideshow" tab there should be a drop-down menu. Check this is on "Selection" (and not "All").
Press the "Slideshow" button (or ALT-F9) to run the slideshow of the selected files.
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digiKam doesn’t appear to offer a simple “exclude RAW files from slideshow” option directly. A practical workaround is to start the slideshow from a selection that contains only the JPEGs.
In digiKam, switch to the table view, sort by the Type column, then select the JPEG files only:
- click the first .jpg
- Shift-click the last .jpg to select the whole JPEG range
Then launch the slideshow from that selection.
If needed, you can also use Ctrl-click to add or remove individual files from the selection. The same idea works in thumbnail view too, but table view makes selecting by file type much easier.
So the solution is: create a JPEG-only selection first, then run the slideshow from the selected files.
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