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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs
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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around
> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got
> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different
> camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes
> RAW, sometimes both.
>
> And I've never really managed them well.
>
> Does anyone have any photo management tool they like? I've got bits of
> Qt and Gtk installed already, and while I'd prefer to avoid pulling in
> a full desktop environment, I might--if the tool is good enough. It
> would have to:
>
> * Handle RAW (via libraw or dcraw is fine), JPEG, PNG[1] and TIFF[1]
> content and metadata
> * Index by metadata, including things like the recording camera's
> serial number[2]
> * Not be destructive, or ambiguous about being destructive, on image
> import. I tried using Amarok to organize my music, which is in similar
> disarray, and I was never sure if it was being destructive about the
> source files/folders. So I made copies. Which ultimately added to the
> disarray.
I think Digikam can do all of it and more. :) Not sure how much of KDE
it will require...
Check out the features list at:
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/features