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From: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Subject: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:38:07 -0800 (PST)
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
There seem to be a number of different open source projects out
there, and I don't perceive any clear favorites.
On the Mac, I've been using iPhoto under OS X, but I'd just as soon
stay in Linux. In a pinch, I can just mount the SD card and copy
images to the HDD to make room on the SD, but it's just delaying
the the visit to X-land...
Thanks,
Romain
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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:04:25 -0500
To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Message: 2
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:38:07 -0800 (PST)
Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
Manage in what way? What tasks do you wish to perform?
I keep my photos in opaque in we-based albums under CMFPhotoAlbum. The
raw files I keep in opaque tar balls on CDs that I get stuffed in a file
cabinet never to be seen again.
Tools for reviewing collections of images? Compupic wsa decent but has
problems with recent versions of libC. These days I use old xv of
showimg. That said, I rarely use either.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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From: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:38:28 -0800
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Message: 3
> Manage in what way? What tasks do you wish to perform?
Oops. I used to hate it when people talked about Windows programs
as if that were the only stuff people used. Sorry for doing that
with Mac software...
To establish a frame of reference, iPhoto can import images from
camera or memory card, which then exist in a flat space on the hard
drive. There are some simple rotation, resizing, and touchup tools,
but nothing approaching the power of Gimp or Photoshop (and some
processes are easier to automate using netpbm in shell scripts).
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From: davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton)
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Date: 14 Dec 2003 10:02:26 +0100
To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> writes:
> What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
> There seem to be a number of different open source projects out
> there, and I don't perceive any clear favorites.
I've written something simple, that's available here:
http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/
The two things I like about it is that 1) it doesn't require anything
server-side, and 2) it stores everything about the photo albums in an
XML file so that, if you want you can edit that by hand, as well as
not lose any information. Older tools in this category were at times
unidirectional in that they could put stuff on the web, but didn't
really let you edit the order or captions afterwards.
--
David N. Welton
Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/
Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/
Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
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From: nbs <nbs@sonic.net>
Subject: [svlug] Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Sunday, December 21st
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:24:31 -0800
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Reply-To: pr@lugod.org
Message: 5
The Linux Users' Group of Davis and the Computer Science Club at UC Davis
will be holding another free "Linux Installfest" workshop.
When:
Sunday, December 21st
10:00am - 6:00pm
Where:
John D. Kemper Hall of Engineering (previously known as Engineering Unit II)
Room 1131
1228 Bainer Hall Drive
UC Davis
Davis, California
Just bring your PC to us, and we'll help you install and configure the
Linux operating system on it... for FREE!
If you wish to bring in your PC, you must RSVP beforehand to reserve a space.
The RSVP form, and lots of useful information about Linux and Installfests,
are accessible on the web at:
http://www.lugod.org/linux/
LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
Linux Operating System, and which meets twice a month in Davis, CA.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
-bill!
pr@lugod.org
http://www.lugod.org/
(Your address: svlug@lists.svlug.org )
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 04:01:56 -0800
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Message: 6
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:38:07PM -0800, Romain Kang (romain@kzsu.stanford.edu) wrote:
> What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
> There seem to be a number of different open source projects out
> there, and I don't perceive any clear favorites.
>
> On the Mac, I've been using iPhoto under OS X, but I'd just as soon
> stay in Linux. In a pinch, I can just mount the SD card and copy
> images to the HDD to make room on the SD, but it's just delaying
> the the visit to X-land...
Gallery, gphoto. For heavier-duty scripted manipulation: ImageMagick.
Konqueror's a decent browser of directories of folders, with thumbnails
and the like. Nautilus provides similar functionality but gives me
hives.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
The black hat community is drooling over the possibility of a secure
execution environment that would allow applications to run in a
secure area which cannot be attached to via debuggers.
- Jason Spence, on Palladium aka NGCSB aka "Trusted Computing"
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From: marco@metm.org
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:30:21 -0500
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Message: 7
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:38:07PM -0800, Romain Kang wrote:
> What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
> There seem to be a number of different open source projects out
> there, and I don't perceive any clear favorites.
>
I have been using gimageviewer (binary is called gimv on debian)
from apt-cache show gimageview:
Description: Image Viewer using GTK+
GImageView is image viewer. It has some useful features such as,
Simple GUI.
Tabbed thumbnail viewer for directories.
Low memory use.
Image file management tool.
Slide show.
read/write many image cache formats of thumbnail.
read : Konqueror, GQview, Electric Eyes (Picview)
write : Nautilus, .xvpics
Supported image formats are:
JPEG, PNG, PNM, GIF, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XWD, BMP
and PCX.
Drag and Drop. You can drop image into like
a Gimp from GImageView window.
I don't like loading a huge gnome or kde window manager cause I have a
bit of an old machine but gimv is snappy allows tabbed viewing of
directories, and if I need to edit an image, right-click open in the
Gimp.
http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/
--
Marco
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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:36:25 -0500
To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Message: 8
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:38:28 -0800
Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> Manage in what way? What tasks do you wish to perform?
> Oops. I used to hate it when people talked about Windows programs as
> if that were the only stuff people used. Sorry for doing that with
> Mac software...
Don't worry about it.
> To establish a frame of reference, iPhoto can import images from
> camera or memory card, which then exist in a flat space on the hard
> drive.
gtkam does the job nicely enough for me, producing directories full of
JPEGs, thumbnails and associated EXIF data.
> There are some simple rotation, resizing, and touchup tools, but
> nothing approaching the power of Gimp or Photoshop (and some processes
> are easier to automate using netpbm in shell scripts).
xv usually suffices for those tasks for me, tho I occasionally descend
into the gimp or ImageMagick scripts.
> From there, you can associate photos with "albums", which are
> conceptually similar to MP3 playlists.
I do this only for web publication, or by grouping on the file system in
directories (pretty much the same thing in my case).
> Individual photos can be annotated with captions.
This is what EXIF is for:
http://exif.org/
Published, well supported, industry standard, does The Right Thing, all
that rot. Best of all it allows the data to be encoded in the same file
with the image.
> There are also simple tools to export resized images or web pages in a
> thumbnail-linked-to-larger image scheme.
I use CMFPhoto for this. I just upload the (full size) images via FTP
or WebDAV and it insta-makes all the appropriate objects with
user-choice scaling, thumbnails etc.
> One drawback appears to be that iPhoto doesn't seem to have a concept
> of offline storage like some of the Adobe photo album management under
> windows. I've heard that the Adobe software has search tools that
> allow you to locate the CD or film roll with the source material.
I've never bothered with this area and so can't comment.
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From: Joel Seidman <joel_seidman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [svlug] Photo management apps?
Cc:
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:55:50 -0800 (PST)
To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>, svlug@lists.svlug.org
--- Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> What Linux apps are people using to manage their digital photos?
> There seem to be a number of different open source projects out
> there, and I don't perceive any clear favorites.
>
> On the Mac, I've been using iPhoto under OS X, but I'd just as soon
> stay in Linux. In a pinch, I can just mount the SD card and copy
> images to the HDD to make room on the SD, but it's just delaying
> the the visit to X-land...
>
> Thanks,
> Romain
I've been using flphoto (or flPhoto?), v1.1. It creates albums, which are
simple text file lists of file names. You can insert file by file into an
album, or an entire directory of image files. It does simple image manipulation
such as resizing, rotations, contrast, sharpening, etc. It creates slide shows
and html index pages. I think you can import from the camera directly, but I
usually use gtkam for that. It knows something about EXIF but I have the
impression it doesn't know all it should.
I've actually been looking for something else since it didn't do one thing I
wanted, which was to export a new directory of selected files (actually, soft
links would be adequate for my purpose). (Maybe I missed it -- if so someone
please correct me.) So I'm going to check out some of the other responses to
this post.
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