Image categories are being created automatically
Now that can't be the whole truth. I'm not familiar with the way WM sorts pictures in categories, but I'm sure a human needs to sort them at some level. Do you create a category by copying the images in a folder (so all images of the garden category are in a folder called "garden")? Do you create a category by renaming the image files, so garden images would be called "garden01.png", "garden02.png" and so on?
It is not meant to make anything easier.
My suggestion is definitely
meant to make handling pictures easier. If my tools actually
can make handling images easier depends on what you want to do with them in PyTFall. That's what I'm trying to find out here.
He is suggesting that you take every single picture for girls in PyTFall and tag it using a piece of software with GUI interface.
You can do that with imgtag, yes. You can also use the folder method I described above (whole foldertrees are supported, so you can add several tags to each image this way; Adding more than three is tiresome, though).
80 - 100 girls [...] 150 pictures per girl and 10 tags per picture [...] 5 second per tag
So you would spend 50s to select 10 tags? How? I sort my picture files by character, so all tags describing the looks of the character are added based on the location of the image in the file system. In the GUI, I choose a location, an activity, one or two tags describing other characters in the image and a clothing style. Takes maybe ten seconds (4-5 clicks) and I end up with 7 tags from the file's location in the file system and 4-5 from the GUI.
Even ten seconds is a long time for 15000 pictures, so if the information is not needed in PyTFall, I would not invest the time. However, I can't imagine how you will match the description of what's happening to the picture if all you have is one category the picture is in. For example, if you are looking for a picture for a whorejob, and you fetch a picture from the "whorejob" category, how can you tell if the picture shows one or a group of customers, or a bedroom, a park or a bar as location, or even a male or female customer? Are you going to have conglomerate categories, e.g. "WhorejobOneManBedroom"?
+ It makes less sense in PyTFall for three reasons:
1) Most jobs are fairly straight-forward and not very numerous. Not very difficult to match.
2) For unique quests and events (those that are meant to work just with one particular girl) specific images will can be called with one single line of code so modder can pic exactly what is required.
3) Image categories are being created automatically giving us a lot of options (not as many as with tagging system obviously). For specific events, it's easy to create a category required.
1) I disagree, unless you plan on having a lot more generic description than I thought you would.
2) I agree. This usecase should not be solved with tags.
3) Human action is unavoidable, as explained above. Calling this process "automatic" is misleading.
to adapt Rudi's tagging system to PyTFall
This is an option, but not required to use imgtag. I could also add an export feature to imgtag that allows saving the "image category information" in a format PyTFall understands, e.g. XML.
Well, I don't know how are these tools look like, but if they able to make pictures hunting and sorting at least a little easier and quicker, I'd like to try them.
Well, none of my tools make picture hunting any easier. I don't really see what kind of tool could do that, unless one wrote a specialized version of google picture search.
They do help with sorting, however. The more keywords/tags/categories you want to add per image, the more help imgtag is. IMHO, more than three keywords per image file are terrible to pull of if only folders are used for sorting.
EDIT: I'm currently uploading my most stable version of imgtag into my dropbox folder. I've used this version successfully for some time now, so I know it works at my machine. It should also work on other Windows PCs. It still has a few bugs and is slow for large images (those problems are fixed in the dev version, which is not ready yet for other reasons). imgtagGtk comes with dummy tags and some random pictures, so you can try it right away. In order to use it, you would have to enter your own tags in settings.ini. I could do that for you if you feel that is too much tinkering.