Image Management Software
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Image Management Software
started by: s_t_bris
Posted by s_t_bris on Oct. 07 2005,04:39
I've got more than 15,000 photos, taken with a digi cam. I'm using DSL more and more (frugal style), but it doesn't have anything to manage these photos so I can't change over completely yet. I use gimp for proper photo editing so no problem there.Till now, I've been using gThumb, part of gnome (with Fedora anyway). It is OK (feature wise), allowing me to do bulk moving/coping, rename series, exif info, resizing, basic categorising, comments, searching.
imgSeek < http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/ > is something that looks like it would be great, but I couldn't get it going with Fedora Core, let alone DSL
I'd really love something that could do bulk moving/coping, rename series, exif info, resizing, basic categorising, comments, and searching. Nothing really fancy needed. Any suggestions/ideas/solutions?
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 07 2005,21:15
How about Imagemagic?< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ck.info >
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub.....tar.gz >
Posted by s_t_bris on Oct. 09 2005,21:14
cbagger01, thanks for the response. Looking at Imagemagick it seems to be basically an image editer, rather like gimp, but a lot smaller and not as powerful.I'm more after collection management - ie. cataloging and organising type stuff. Perhaps the thread title is slightly inaccurate, and I did mention a few editing functions earlier(which gimp or imagemagick could handle, but it would be nice if they were integrated with collection management). There are several image collection management programs in the Windows world, such as acdsee.
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Oct. 10 2005,01:59
There's gtksee in the mydsl repository, obviously based on acdsee. Haven't tried it in a while though, so can't remember what kind of features it has.
Posted by l0st on Oct. 10 2005,13:16
Although heavy on the dependency side of things, I believe imgseek will be a GREAT addition to the mydsl respository.What's a real life saver in this is it has IMAGE RECOGNITION. How often do you remember, vaguely, the outlines and main features of an image, but cannot recall the dratted name? It's a wonder this project is still semi obscure.
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 10 2005,18:46
If you tried imagemagick from the myDSL fluxbox menu, you are getting only a small part of the program. As with most applications, the gui does not give you the full power of the tools available from the command line. ImageMagick, particularly the "convert" and "conjure" tools, will probably allow you to do most of what you need:< http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php >
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 11 2005,17:54
Exactly.Use the imagemagick command line tools for bulk processing of photos
Posted by s_t_bris on Oct. 13 2005,23:04
Thanks for your input fellas, but imagemagick is not what I'm after. It is more focused on the modifying the contents of files. My main interest is managing 15,000 photo files - renaming, picking out photos for rotation (graphical interface needed) and then rotating them, picking out photos to move between directories (graphical interface needed), cataloging images, searching by catalogue terms and showing resultant images, etc. Sure imagemagick can do resizing, changing formats and other image editing features, but 'image processing' is the easy/minor part of what I am after.I wasn't aware of GTKsee - thanks for pointing it out RoGuE_StreaK. hmmm, it does some of what I'm after.
Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 14 2005,17:44
Man that is most freeking excellent with the gtksee!Thanks for posting that up
For a description of what it does check out the screenshots
< http://gtksee.berlios.de/screenshot.php >
Just like ACDsee...only linux!
Schweet!
Brian
AwPhuch