Re: Importing Color Labels from Adobe Bridge to Digikam

Mies,

Any feedback following my previous comment ?

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 6 janv. 2026 à 06:51, Gilles Caulier <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Can you share with us using a cloud service storage some sample with
> different values to see the corresponding metadata from Bridge to re-route
> in digiKam ?
>
> If your images have xmp sidecars, don't forget to also join these files.
>
> Best regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 6 janv. 2026 à 03:17, Mies <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been using Adobe Bridge for a long time to manage my library of
>> photos and now I want to start using digikam.
>>
>> The problem is that I don't know how to import the color labels that I
>> assigned in Bridge to Digikam.
>>
>> It seems that Digikam can read the metadata stored in the xmp sidecar
>> files of my library including the "label" field.  The problem is that I
>> customized the name of the labels in Bridge so Digikam cannot "read" them
>> as colors (see the image):
>>
>>
>> To solve the problem I've tried different things with no results:
>>
>> - Using a shell script in "batch queue manager" to replace my custom
>> label names for the label names used by Digikam but didn't work.
>>
>> - Filtering / searching the images with a specific label name to manually
>> assign a new Color Label. The problem here is that Digikam does not allow
>> me to search for labels with other names than the standard ones (Red,
>> Green, Blue, etc)
>>
>>
>> Could you indicate me what can I do?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>