[nflug] Managing Pictures on Linux

[Cyber Source]

fspot has some pretty cool functions. I especially like the export 
feature where it can resize and auto orientate the pics, very handy for 
those landscape pics.....

Joe wrote:
> I'm new to digital cameras.  I have several thousand images (photos)
> loaded to my hard disk from my camera.
>
> I want to select a subset for printing, etc.
>
> I'm running kubuntu hardy on a Centrino Duo notebook.
>
> In Picasa, it does what I want, but the album viewer pane acts like a
> web page which makes scrolling and locating pictures really annoying. 
> The nice thing about Picasa is that it doesn't store pictures.  It just
> points to them so if you delete one, you're just deleting it out of
> Picasa, not off your disk.  It does not appear to have a search function.
>
> I'm looking into Digikam.  It displays the pictures sanely and lets you
> search them in a normal (good) way, but treats them as the actual
> files.  If you delete one, it's totally gone.  I can deal with that, but
> how do I select some for printing?
>
> I tried the following (in Digikam):
> I created a whole album of pictures  that  I want to print a subset of.
> These are copies, so deleting some would be OK (but not optimal).
>
> I set a tag on all of them called "Print".  I can then go through and
> remove this tag from any I don't want to print.
>
> I created a search on the album that displays all the pictures with the
> "Print" tag set.  That works, but I can't see any way to copy just those
> images to somewhere else like a memory stick or CD to take to a photo shop.
>
> I also attempted to install f-spot, but it has some problems working
> under kde - at least on my system - and is not usable at the moment.
>
> Any ideas on how to tackle this would be appreciated.  I want to settle
> on one image manager and get back to managing my pictures.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
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