Best photo management app?
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Re: Best photo management app?
I have no favourite, but our developer Boo likes f-spot and gthumb
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Re: Best photo management app?
I've always been partial to Digikam.
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Re: Best photo management app?
why i like f-spot is because when it downloads photos it puts them in a chronological folder tree down to each day.
maybe i just like structure instead of all photos in one folder and use a db or tag system to order/find them.
I don't use any photo edit tools in it, I use gimp for that.
I will be looking into digiKam a bit more. I just wish/hope that it could use the same chronological folder structure.
maybe i just like structure instead of all photos in one folder and use a db or tag system to order/find them.
I don't use any photo edit tools in it, I use gimp for that.
I will be looking into digiKam a bit more. I just wish/hope that it could use the same chronological folder structure.
Now where was i going? Oh yes, crazy!
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Re: Best photo management app?
GTHUMB
See my post (page 2) here:
"if you try to go deeper with Gthumb you'll clearly understand how f-spot is useless.
Gthumb is the only gnome app i know that can print multiple photos on the same page! something Windows XP had built-in in 2001.
So, we can't replace gthumb with f-spot. (and you can tag with gthumb too)."
See my post (page 2) here:
"if you try to go deeper with Gthumb you'll clearly understand how f-spot is useless.
Gthumb is the only gnome app i know that can print multiple photos on the same page! something Windows XP had built-in in 2001.
So, we can't replace gthumb with f-spot. (and you can tag with gthumb too)."
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)
Re: Best photo management app?
I use Gimp, have tried others but this is my favorite for normal task.
Re: Best photo management app?
I use, in combination:
* Nautilus, which does thumbnails quite nicely
* Gthumb or other image viewer, like eog or gqview
* A standardized folder naming system adhered to by me and my wife. (Always start the folder name with a leading zero, to five digits, then the folder number, the name of the camera used, and the date, and, optionally (although it should be required) a description of the folder contents.)
I have not found a software image management tool that is all of these things:
* is not slow (f-spot, gthumb)
* does not want to move the images around into its idea of where it should keep the images (f-spot)
* is a GTK/Gnome app (digikam is KDE) (I hate using KDE apps in Gnome, and not jsut for "purity's" sake)
But, of course, I havent tried all that hard to find a do-it-all app since my system works so well for us. (Well, poorly, actually, but that's only because we have so many frikin pictures, but dating everything does make things easier to find.)
I tried using F-Spot but frankly, it is a joke of an app at this point. It is a *potentially* promising app taht has not yet come anywhere close to fulfilling its promise.
Gthumb is pretty good as an image viewer; I am not too confident i its *management* capabilities.
Digikam I have not used too much, and not in a long while.
* Nautilus, which does thumbnails quite nicely
* Gthumb or other image viewer, like eog or gqview
* A standardized folder naming system adhered to by me and my wife. (Always start the folder name with a leading zero, to five digits, then the folder number, the name of the camera used, and the date, and, optionally (although it should be required) a description of the folder contents.)
I have not found a software image management tool that is all of these things:
* is not slow (f-spot, gthumb)
* does not want to move the images around into its idea of where it should keep the images (f-spot)
* is a GTK/Gnome app (digikam is KDE) (I hate using KDE apps in Gnome, and not jsut for "purity's" sake)
But, of course, I havent tried all that hard to find a do-it-all app since my system works so well for us. (Well, poorly, actually, but that's only because we have so many frikin pictures, but dating everything does make things easier to find.)
I tried using F-Spot but frankly, it is a joke of an app at this point. It is a *potentially* promising app taht has not yet come anywhere close to fulfilling its promise.
Gthumb is pretty good as an image viewer; I am not too confident i its *management* capabilities.
Digikam I have not used too much, and not in a long while.