Comments on: Linux Tools For Serious Photographers

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:31:29 +0000

50%-80% of the photos I take are off people I know and of them, 20%-30% are in the places one of them live.
Can someone show me the photo organising suite that can easily tag photos with a unique tag for a person I know or a place where they live such that I can use it as a foreign key into my contacts list?
I mean a proper key – not the person’s name (possibly fudged with their maiden name or date of birth) – a proper unique through time ID shared between a half decent contact manager and a half decent photo manager.
Whilst I’m on this rant, a photo manager that does not store all the information in a database – you don’t store the jpeg file in the db, why store all the tags and descriptions in one? If they can’t be shoehorned into the image itself (well, the raw image should always be left intact shouldn’t it?) perhaps a similarly named file in the same directory?
But then again, I’m probably just showing my hard core command line background

Rant over – carry on

By: garhol

garhol — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:53:38 +0000

There’s also the pretty impressive commercial offering from Corel. Aftershot Pro used to be Bibble but Corel bought it out (if I recall correctly). It’s got a really nice workflow (non-desctructive), good raw support and I didn’t see any slowdown moving over from Lightroom on windows to it. There’s a free trial as well. ->http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&cid=catalog20038&segid=6000006&storeKey=us&languageCode=en

By: Patryk Hanckowiak

Patryk Hanckowiak — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:43:17 +0000

PS also, I think the features of Gimp 2.10, which will be released soon, might be of some interest to photographers. The Gimp roadmap: http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap

By: Patryk Hanckowiak

Patryk Hanckowiak — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:15:32 +0000

There seems to be a “new” tool you haven’t listed called LightZone (http://lightzoneproject.org/). Once commercial software, now in the early stages of beeing converted to open source.

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:24:04 +0000

Piwigo requires PHP and MySQL but does not require you to be running Apache, according to their website. Apache is not the only web server, nor everybody’s favorite.

By: hkb

hkb — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:45:46 +0000

More inclined to go with Darktable; also looking at Aftershot Pro.

By: Stumpy

Stumpy — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:07:18 +0000

Thank you for your article. (I notice GIMP is not featured). I’m pleased to see Geeqie is recommended. I use it extensively. Fotoxx has some useful tools for HDR and Panaorama that I have used too. I haven’t used GTKRawGallery (terrible name) for a while – I might have a look again though. I’ve used Darktable and RawTherapee with good results. Thank you again.

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:51:18 +0000

For us newbies, you may want to mention that display (aka sharing) options include using either a desktop application such as Jalbum, or using a self-hosting server application such as Gallery or Piwigo on dedicated box or virtualized on a desktop using VirtualBox. Virtualization can be used for development.

Thank you for your article.