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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "management"

Pimp your F-Spot

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I'm sure many know the photo management application F-Spot and I'm sure just some knows that you can pimp it with extensions :smile: At the bottom of the extension page is described how to get the extensions installed.

Photo Manager Experiment

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At Ubuntuproductivity i found an interesting article about photo management with digital cameras and the RAW image format. There i discovered Bibble for the first time. All other software is well known with it's pros and cons. blueMarine is not listet/ testet in that article which is still in development too.

F-Spot GSOC progress

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For the fanboys of F-Spot: Take a look at Vasiliy Kirilichev blog, their he wrote about his progress of the GSOC F-Spot Color Profiles project.

What is a good image viewer?

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A good question by Linux Photography. Did we need really image viewers like gThumb? I personally belief in the thumbnail features of Nautilus and didn't need one anymore. Ok, for reviewing photos i use F-Spot :smile:

F-Spot 0.4.4

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With F-Spot 0.4.4, the first version influenced by Googles Summer of Code is available, this release adds some cool enhancements and a better integration in the Gnome Desktop using GIO. F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface.
* FullScreen enhancements: fading widgets, snapped on screen edges, ...
* rating with hotkeys: Alt-0 to Alt-5 in browse or edit mode
* reduce startup time by ~40%
* push back the "sort tag by popularity"
* choose the theme you prefer for f-spot
* reduce the verbosity of the output log
* migrate CDExport to gio for gnome 2.22
* an insane amount of other fixes, new capabilities,
updated translations and refactoring

F-spot 0.4.3

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F-Spot, a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface, is official released as 0.4.3. It shipped with many bugfixes and some feature enhancements:
* new print dialog with preview, new print options
* new filmstrip widget in Edit mode
* allow custom selection ratios for cropping
* sort tags by popularity (desc) in tag-typing autocompletion
* x-content/* support, integrate seemlessly with gnome 2.22
* works again on ppc architecture
* tons of bugfixes, translation updates and improvments all over the place

F-Spot GSoC

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I love F-Spot and i'm happy to read that there will be nice improvements as a Summer of Code project featured by Google. Ruben Vermeersch will improve the sidebar like some mockups of Jimmac shows :smile:.

Google Picasa 2.7 for Linux

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The final version of the photo management software Picasa 2.7 for Linux is available. Now you can import images from your disk and publish them in the web. Besides this long awaited feature Picasa 2.7 for Linux offers:
* a better and faster import of images
* added support for the cameras Canon EOS 30D and Nikon D200
* support for Adobe DNG format
* bigger previews
* better search for camera details like ISO or focal values
Video support is still missing in the Linux version. Renember Picasa is not a native Linux application, its ported to Linux using the Winelib. You can download it for various distributions including Debian/ Ubuntu.

f-spot 0.4.2

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F-Spot, a full-featured personal photo management application with a modern interface, is official released as 0.4.2. It shpped with many bugfixes and some feature enhancements:
# rating and filter on rating
# auto-upgrade db from sqlite2 to sqlite3
# expose the stores through dbus
# MonoDevelop solution file
# new extensions

f-spot 0.4.1

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After a first SVN release now F-Spot is official released as 0.4.1. F-Spot 0.4.1 is a full-featured personal photo management application. 0.4.1 comes with interesting new features like:
* .arw support (sony A100)
* New extensions: RawPlusJpeg, DevelopInUFRaw, SyncCatalog
* Reworked TagView
* Inhibit/Unhinibit the screensaver in slideshow
...and many bug fixes and translation updates too.

f-spot 0.4.1 - Italian Job

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F-Spot 0.4.1 the full-featured personal photo management application is released. It comes with interesting new features like:
* .arw support (sony A100)
* New extensions: RawPlusJpeg, DevelopInUFRaw, SyncCatalog
* Reworked TagView
* Inhibit/Unhinibit the screensaver in slideshow
...and bug fixes and translation updates too.

F-Spot 0.4

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F-Spot a full-featured personal photo management application is released as the new version 0.4. this release includes
  • Size and visibility of icons
  • new tango icons everywhere. supports themability.
  • Updated Query widgets and reworked Timeline widget
  • Start using custom exif code
  • Queued sqlite commands and support for background jobs
  • Import Rolls support and filtering on rolls
  • Extensions support via Mono.Addins
  • Updated translations and a lot of bugfixes

Get a deb archive of it!

F-Spot 0.3.3 update

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F-Spot 0.3.3 a full-featured personal photo management application is released. It is a bugfix release.

F-Spot 0.3.2 update

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F-Spot a full-featured personal photo management application is released as 0.3.2. This release adds new new editing effects, a better OpenGL based slideshow, improvements and bugfixes.

F-Spot 0.3.1 update

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F-Spot a full-featured personal photo management application is released as 0.3.1. A new OpenGL based slideshow mode, minor fixes and improvements.