[svlug] Photo sorting software

[Larry Colen]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:08:43PM -0400, Beartooth wrote:
# > 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.)

Someone on LiveJournal reccomended Picasa. I tried to use it and
absolutely hated it. 

For this job, I don't need, or even want, to deal with every picture
on my whole hard drive, but if there was a way to just import a
directory tree, rather than only a directory, or the whole hard drive,
I couldn't find it. Plus, Picasa doesn't totally go away when you
close it. The performance sucks. The list goes on. As far as I can
tell, it's even worse than iPhoto.

-- 
Software that holds your hand is one thing, software that holds your
hand and won't let go is really, really annoying.
Larry Colen             lrc at red4est.com            http://www.red4est.com/lrc