[svlug] Photo sorting software

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:15:17 -0700, Larry Colen wrote:

> I don't need to do serious work on them, but I'd like these features;
> 
> Able to select groups of pictures
> Able to move pictures (individual or group) from one directory to
> another
> Able to rotate individual or selected groups of photos
> 
> Ideally I'd like to be able to adjust the resolution at which pictures
> are displayed, and would be able to click on a picture and see it at
> some specified, or at least full resolution.
> 
> Extra bonuses if I can also crop, copy and rename photos.

A friend, microscopist and pathologist, teaches at the local university
and maintains a web site well-known in his field; he recommends an app
called Picasa -- which is now available for linux. Quote : 

 http://picasa.google.com/linux/

     If you have any interest in image search and archiving
     functions, this is THE program for it.  I couldn't live
     without it.

I got it and fired it up. It looks pretty daunting to me, but certainly
very powerful; and some of the daunting may be due to the fact that I do
very little with pix, beyond using them for desktop backgrounds ...

(I'd be glad to hear more about this one from linux people, btw.)
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler, Neo-
Redneck Retiree,  Not Quite Clueless FC Power User