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Re: [PLUG] Picasa replacement?
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I'm a long time amateur / low end professional photographer, and had
read books about Digital Asset Management
(DAM) software, but thought that was only available on Windows. I then
found this article about Digikam and DAM:
http://www.gerhard.fr/DAM/
So I recently went from no system ( other than Gimp ) to using Digikam + DAM
I have to say, DAM makes a lot of sense, so that is why I'm moving my
archives ( mostly just on the file
system ) to Digikam. Photos are rated with 0 to 5 stars, and for me
with only a few thousand photos
there should be mostly 0 to 3 stars with maybe a couple 4 stars. I
also create profiles with copyright
info, etc. and push this template out to all the images, so most
important info , other than organization
into albums, are located in the images themselves.
I still edit with Gimp, and haven't used the buit-in editor, but it
looks reasonable. Needless to say that
original images ( JPG or RAW ) are never touched, and only copies are
edited, so you have to come up
with an naming convention for adjustments or crops. I only have one
camera ( Nikon D40 ) so all
my image are numbered by the camera - but with a 2nd body this would
have to change.
I never noticed that Digikam is KDE, and I use Gnome, so it must not
make much difference.
Digikam publishes easily to many formats, and I run a Gallery2 site for
display. I've been
quite happy with Gallery2 as well, and moves are quite easy with data
in PostgreSQL.
I've started a gallery of my better shots [1] ( I'm just starting this,
so it's rather small )
My photos of the recent Nikola Tesla Energy Ind Celebration in Philly. [2]
My images are on a remote NAS, Gallery is on a VM, and Digikam is on
my laptop, so I really need to figure
out the Digikam backup, as nightly duplicity backups may not be enough ?
[1] http://gallery.marzke.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11564
[2] http://gallery.marzke.net/main.php?g2_itemId=11573
Lee
On 07/29/2010 05:48 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
Like much of Google, I have a love/hate relationship with Picasa. It
looks and works great, but it's a nightmare to administer, like when
changing hardware/OS/username as I did for my wife recently. She was
running v3.0 beta on Hardy 32-bit and is now running the same v.3.0
beta on Lucid 64-bit on a new machine, with a different user name.
Picasa for "Linux" is really just Picasa for Windows with just enough
wine wrapped around it to work, which is annoying. I wonder if Google
will really ban Windows like they said [1], and if so what that'll
mean for native Linux apps. But anyway...
Any recommendations on a Picasa replacement? It must be in the Lucid
repos or have a PPA or third-party Lucid repo. (So running the
regular Windows Picasa under regular Wine doesn't count.)
We are pretty low-end users with only a few thousand pics but they are
hosted on the file server, not the local drive and I want them to stay
that way. She wants a fast viewer, albums (not related to physical
directory), basic tweaking features (e.g., red-eye, "I'm feeling
lucky," etc.), and uploads to Snapfish, Facebook, etc. I'd like
something that works well when the picture files are on the file
server (bonus points for working well over slow links though I won't
hold my breath), and isn't too hard to migrate out of if needed (both
things Picasa is particularly bad at).
Digikam looks pretty good, but it is a KDE app and I run Gnome. It's
the best of the lot I'm aware of, and I may give it a try if no one
has anything better... Like Picasa, it wants to keep its own DB
(sqlite) on the *local* drive (network drives not allowed), but unlike
Picasa you can configure where, and it'll also "export" meta data into
the picture file, which is actually pretty cool.
I've looked at F-Spot, but it seems primitive, and I've seen reports
of it wanting to move things around on disk and so forth.
Shotwell [2] looks promising, but the one in the Lucid repos is even
more primitive than F-Spot.
## Haven't really looked at these yet
ansel1 - Horde photo management application
flphoto - Image manager with great printing functionality
## These are interesting, but don't actually address the specific
need/problem, they are additional tools.
fotowall - simple application for creating collages and compositions
fotoxx - easy-to-use digital photo editor
Thanks,
JP
[1]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=9a36c1aa-3016-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html
[2]
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/14/0055221/Ubuntu-Replaces-F-Spot-With-Shotwell
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