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- Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Summary: Google's Picasa (though proprietary) is the best all-in-one solution for digital photo management.
- anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Thank you for your enlightening and well thought out argument. Truly you are a master to behold.
- krazykit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How is it in the stone ages? All my hardware is natively supported, and I'm running machines less than a year old. Windows won't do that. I can manage all my software centrally and update it easily, instead of downloading installers from 10 different websites. Windows can't do that.
- Red_Eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I dunno about that xnview is one of my personal long time favorites due to the fact its compatible with over 400 formats and is simple to use. It is also quite fast.
- gJon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Agreed. It seems like proprietary software is often given a bad name right off the bat just because it's labeled as "proprietary". But it's not always a bad thing. Picasa is very functional, elegant, and easy to use. And because of that I will use it, proprietary or not.
- Falcorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I agree with the article that Picasa is the best, I loved it on Windows, and F-Spot just isn't the same. It does a fine job, but Picasa is near perfect.
That being said, I use F-Spot now not because of some moral "I will only use open source on Linux!" ideal, but because Picasa runs SLOW on Linux for me, and therefore is just not a viable option. I wish it was. - anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Can't do anything? How about running almost every website you've ever visited? Serving files? Maintaining databases? Converting old hardware into something useful? And all thr while being infinitely more adaptable, stable and secure than Windows. For free.
Yeah, that's nothing.
For the record, I use Ubuntu but it's not my main OS. I'm not a fanboy, I just hate ridiculous statements made by ignorant trolls. I find myself dual booting a lot. Windows for work (need to VPN into a school network), graphics (graphic design student, GIMP doesn't cut it for me) and the occasional game. Ubuntu for browsing the web, email and experimentation, as well as some kick-ass eye candy. A tweaked Linux desktop makes Windows look absolutely fugly in comparison. - Brigadier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Interesting. IE sure looked like a copy of Netscape Navigator. Excel sure looked like a copy of Lotus 1-2-3. MS Money sure looked like a copy of Quicken. Windows sure looked like a copy of the Mac, which looked like a copy of X Windows...
- sporkwitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same, works great.
- duhblow7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3err...pronview.
- Lowspirit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I recently went through the same hunt for a good photo manager and I settled for F-Spot, at the moment it does what I need (I just collect photos for fun), it conforms to my desktop (Gnome), it provides me with a little thumb for each of my tag collections, it doesn't litter with a bunch of Picasa.ini files and it doesn't need to run through emulation.
Picasa however was far superiour in many ways, the editing capabilities leaves very little to complain about, browsing was fairly simple and with the effects on made it feel smooth (but jerky on occasion), - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would probably still use Picasa... ***If it allowed hierarchical organization***
Seriously, I have about 6800 pictures, at ~8gb. They want me to organize that in one flat list? Tagging is a great feature, but not to be relied on so heavily. - vixenk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, I guess this games directory in my application menu is just a hallucination. ;)
1. You can't play *some* games... the whole "you can't play games" statement is nothing but seriously stretching the truth.
2. I don't see you saying Macs are stuck in the stone age because you can't play some games on them. :P - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lphoto from Linspire fits that
- chrism1128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did I miss the actual "Side By Side" part of this article?
I saw a lot of text and a couple of images over top of each other.
but no "Side By Side"
I'm just sayin' - lowridah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I do tech support for Photoshop Elements and half the time I feel like telling customers to download Picasa. For the majority of people out there that use Elements, Picasa does what they want with a more intuitive feel. For my own totally computer illiterate father I installed Picasa, even though I know Photoshop Elements is more capable along the lines of editing. The majority of people that actually use these pieces of software are usually middle aged to elderly, and just want to organize, backup, and make slideshows of their pictures.
Picasa is great, everyone should at least try it out. - nandasunu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've found that picasa can be slow when using xgl/compiz, without those running its practically as fast as on windows for me.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I fully agree with the writer, I found picasa to be far superior in many ways to the current open offerings.
- doodlebumm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I find that it works just about as fast on Linux as Windows. I wonder what the reason might be that yours seems to be so slow.
- ace77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For me the best one is Gwenview, i love it
- Xenogis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Picasa is my favorite. It was the easiest to install, use, and has a lot of nice features. I love being able to publish my photos to the web in an easy to use page.
- vixenk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2bury
- vixenk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Personally, I'm quite fond of Digikam. It does require a little work to figure out but it ends up being completely worth it. Overall it ends up making an excellent one stop shop to organize, search, and touch up large collections.
I tried out F-Spot but after being a long time Digikam user I found it to be quite lacking in terms of features.
I would also take F-Spot over Picasa any day. Picasa has the potential to be great for small collections imho, but for me it's a pain in the butt to manage my large collection with it, and has quite a 'bloated' feeling to it. - jsully, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm really liking Picasa on Linux. If you want a way around the built in file manager, I have a writeup here that covers getting it to work with Nautilus, the default file manager for Gnome and Ubuntu, or Konqueror:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/29a78b8c829987ba - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't believe you didn't read the 2nd post of these comments.
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digikam supports 16bit tiffs, and imports raw camera data. It can do crazy image editing and touching up for photos. Check it out!
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i have no problems with picasa's speed in linux....
- ptFoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Picasa, does it still ***** the picasa.ini file all over your directories?
Retarded as the thumbs.db file in windows.
The only major problem with GQView is the ugly purple folders it uses. It would be good if it could use the folder icon in your theme. - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4open source != Linux
These applications run on a lot more than Linux, and are neither Linux-limited or Linux-focused. Referring to them as "Linux" apps is like me calling Digg "MY" website. - anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I know you'll get dugg down for saying you've ditched Linux, but I must agree about ACDSee. I've tried so many other image viewers/library managers and I always end up back with ACDSee, and it's one of the programs I wish I could be using in Ubuntu without fiddling around with Wine. ACDSee is quick, easy, and powerful.
Too bad it's not opensource and/or free. - ace77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On Windos I use Faststone.... it's great, really really fast.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does it really? I'm not convinced, and not willing to download it again for a test run.
All the screenshots I can find show a linear folder list:
http://enscreenshots.softonic.com/s2en/23000/23941/3_picasa_main.jpg
That's not hierarchical... that's flat. - GmorG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know if Linux version of picasa has same functions but Windows version has folder tree hierarchy already.
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Picasa becomes slow when you get around to adding photos to it.
- anjinash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"u cant play most games not some gameswhat you ganna do when halo comes out come back crying to windows hahahha"
We'll be running to our Xbox360's, since only Halo 1 was released for Windows, you dumb-ass. And Halo 1 has been around long enough that it should run fine under Wine or Cedega. I have no problems playing UT2k4 in Ubuntu, and I know others who've been playing WoW in it as well. You may want to get a clue before you make a jackass of yourself in front of millions of people.
Oh, and you're grammar is atrocious. - watergeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The thing I most struggle with is getting the info (thumbnails and tags) into one database ideally.
I have a lot of pictures. A lot on CD, and some DVD's full with pictures. I want to access the info of all those pictures, and if I select the pictures I want to use I want to be albe to find the CD or DVD.
Am I the only one that has no sufficient space on my HD to store all the pics on?
I used to have a very simple freeware solution under windows. Right now I hope that I can find such a simple thing under Linux (Ubuntu).
As far as I know, none of the applications mentioned have a database with the information of on what media a specific original picture is located.
If there is a way around this, can somebody tell me this? It is such an obvious need...there has to be a solution to this. - felderado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i'm sorry, fishbert, but it's kinda hard to see those comments when they all got dugg down.
I'm guessing nobody knows that Pornview exists and they think it's a lame joke, so it got dugg down.
Quit being an *****. - JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Meh, no ThumbsPlus! equivalent on Linux. And it does not run using WINE. That is why I am dual booting.
- johnnykwest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I got tired of trying to use apps like F-Spot and Picasa to organize my photos. I tend to apply some kind of organized file naming and then upload/tag them in Flickr. I use GQview to go through them on my local drive. It just seems quicker to me. I'm always afraid that all that time I spend tagging and organizing in something like F-Spot might be wasted if the database file gets completely screwed up later on (like many iPhoto users have found out).
While I'm happily using Linux at home however, I have to use XP at work, and undoubtedly the fastest app I've ever used for generating thumbnails and viewing fullsize shots has to be a little known app called Faststone viewer (faststone.org). I'm not sure what the heck they use for the thumbnail and rendering engine, but it simply blows anything else I've tried right out of the water for speed (and I've tried ACDSee, ACDSeePro, Photoshop Elements Organizer, Picasa and several others). Not the prettiest program, but frickin fast for viewing/zooming/panning large images. And it's free (but not OSS). - sgunes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Linux is just an alternative to MS and Mac Os. I support Linux because MS has become so ***** in their tech support because they don't have to give a rat's ass about any regular customer unless you spent millions on their software. If MS wga makes some of your legitimate computers unusable and all you get is Indian tech support, you understand that such huge corporations have complete disdain for the average customer. All people in charge at MS are either billionaires or multi-millionaires so they couldn't care less if some people with legitimately purchased MS software get screwed. They laugh all the way to the bank.
You can either support a monopoly that is getting nastier and greedier by the day or support the little guy trying to give you an alternative.
If Linux sucks according to your posting I would invite you to become active to make it better. We would all appreciate your support. - KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0u cant even play dvd on ubunto rofl
- KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0u cant play most games not some gameswhat you ganna do when halo comes out come back crying to windows hahahha
- RandoFernando, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5I second that comment about Aperture. iPhoto tends to get bogged down when your library gets over 5 GB. I have over 15,000 jpg and raw images and Aperture has been great in terms of managing (and backing up to a "vault") and works seemlessly with cs2 for external editing (your master images are never touched just the different versions). The stacking feature is awesome too. And now that there's a smugmug export my workflow from taking pictures to editing to selling online is so smooth.
- felderado, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3cant believe nobody mentioned Pornview
http://alts.homelinux.net/shots/504-0.jpg - KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0hosting sites? wow how does that make it a good os for home use lol u dont get it. fine it can be faster sometimes but who cares if it cant even play games
- KiaserLies, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0u cant even play most games. id rather have a computer that crashes once in a while than a useless stoneage computer that cant do anything. look how stonage it is. they make a photo manager for it and its on the news
- bias, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2keep trying, just like all the other half ass open source or linux softwares, copy other people ***** and make it mediocre. just like OpenOffice, GIMP can't stand against MS Office and Photoshop. Only one rare rare exception which is Firefox.
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5no PornViewer?
- theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7The sheer speed of the ACDSee (displaying pictures and thumbnails) makes it irreplaceable. It was one of the few programs that made me get rid of Ubuntu, which I gave a 3 month chance, and go back to XP.
None of these linux viewers compare. - joerod, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8just make one thats like iphoto, cause thats the best photo management app I've ever used
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