Wanted: photo management software for Linux
Dear Lazyweb, what do you use for managing your photo collections locally?
At the moment I just dump them all in a directory on the file server, with Jenny’s photos in another. I used to use F-spot, which was okay, but then I wanted to store Jenny’s photos separately from my own and there doesn’t seem to be any way to do this. Is the “right” way to do it to just tag them with who took them, or what?
I don’t want to use Flickr or any other hosted service – I want to store my own photos. They are just for viewing locally – I already use Gallery2 for photos I want to publish.
November 5th, 2009 at 23:48
Why can’t you just have a separate user for Jenny’s photos?
November 5th, 2009 at 23:52
What specifically is wrong with Picasa? Last time I used it it worked great for photograph management.
November 5th, 2009 at 23:53
@Robert aside from it being non-free?
November 6th, 2009 at 01:20
@popey, switching users is a bit of a hassle
November 6th, 2009 at 01:21
@Robert, oh, I’d never even bothered looking into picasa since I’d thought (being Google) that it must be a hosted service! My mistake. Does it have support for multiple different storage locations, perhaps with some command line option or whatever?
November 6th, 2009 at 01:37
@popey, actually, am coming around to the idea of separate users now. May as well have our own desktop setups running all the time. Thanks.