Questions tagged [photo-management]
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Any app on Ubuntu to open and/or convert HEIF pictures (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)?
A certain cellphone maker has changed the default format of taking pictures to HEIF (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format), without asking the users (although there is still the option to use jpeg/...
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How can I find duplicate photos?
What can I use to find duplicate photos, including photos that have been resized?
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How to upload many images to Google Photo?
I have 70k images in 2k directories on my Ubuntu PC.
I want to upload them to google photo to the unlimited store (called "high quality" with reduced size).
This solution looks too complicated to ...
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Ubuntu replacement for IrfanView
On Windows I really liked IrfanView as a basic image editor/manager.
Some of the main features I liked were
great shortcut keys
good batch conversion options
ability to work with many image file ...
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How to edit detailed image metadata (exif)?
How can I edit detailed image metadata (exif) fields? In Windows 7 this is just a right click on the file in the folder.
I've searched and not found a way to edit detailed metadata (exif) fields in ...
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Show all pictures recursively (include any subfolders)
Does anyone know an app that allows to get an overview about all pictures of a folder, including all subfolders?
I would like to browse through my filesystem and then have an overview of all pictures ...
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Is there any software that will do face recognition in photos?
I would like to automate the process of tagging my photos with subjects' names.
Is there any software for Ubuntu that can perform face recognition on a local photo collection?
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How to organize/sort images by EXIF image data
I have recovered images from a lost partition and I need to sort them or put them into a folder by the creation date in the EXIF data of each image.
I have installed digiKam and also shotwell but ...
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Nautilus isn't displaying thumbnails for my NEF files (photo raw)
I'm not getting any thumbnails in nautilus for my NEF files (photo raw). Is there an easy way to repair this?
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What's keeping Shotwell from replacing EOG?
I have noticed that Shotwell has a pretty capable image viewer but EOG is still used for opening image files, which means Ubuntu's default install has two apps for the same purpose.
I wonder why ...
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App for viewing photos with properties (exif) display?
I'm looking for an app to view photos in folders, which can display properties (like time taken) next to photo. I want to view photos in folders as they are, without importing them to some library ...
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App to use with geotagged photos? (GPS info in EXIF)
Dad got a camera with built in GPS. The GPS info is embeded in the EXIF data, I guess. Picasa 3 puts a small "icon" on each of the geotagged photos, but can not do anything with them (as far as I can ...
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Tagging photographs
I am trying to organize my photographs with tags. The last time I have been doing this was about three years ago, so I have a lot of pictures to organize.
All of the photographs should have correct ...
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What software can I use to convert images to other formats?
I am looking for an application which can do the following:
Resize one or more images
Compress images
Rotate and flip images
Rename multiple images using a progressive number or a prefix/suffix
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How To Rename Multiple Photos and Videos Based on EXIF Data?
I often import photos and videos (mostly having JPG and MOV extensions) from digital cameras and tablets to my PC, and I would ideally like to see them sorted according to the dates and times they ...
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How can I turn off the message "The media contains digital photo", in Nautilus?
I have a FAT partition on my system for storage purposes, and from a time to now I'm seeing this message in Nautilus:
The media contains digital photo
There is any way to turn it off?
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What good software is available for editing RAW photo files?
I have a DSLR (Canon 550D) and since I'm taking my first steps in the world of RAW photography I don't know which would be a good program to use to edit these files. I've tried digiKam and GIMP but ...
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Photo manager that organises by folder structure
I have my pictures very well organized on the harddisk, in this structure:
Pictures
Canon
Holiday 2010
Sony
Graduation 2000
Other Albums
Steves Holiday 2010 Album
Thus, I have a main folder ...
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How to setup Shotwell for multi-user access?
Typical use case: A family notebook with multiple user accounts.
How do I setup Shotwell so all users have access to the same photo directory and each is able to import photos?
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How can I preserve file modification times when copying to a NAS?
I recently installed a Synology DiskStation on my network. I mounted it from an Ubuntu 12.04.1 computer with the Browse Network button in Nautilus 3.4.2. It shows up as afp://[email protected]/...
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Shotwell does not copy, but imports files without copying
When I try to importing photos from my external harddisk into Shotwell, after disconnecting the HDD the photos disappear immediately.
I saw that the photos had been imported into the database without ...
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How to remove duplicate imported photos in Shotwell
I've noticed that Shotwell has imported many images twice (e.g. from my camera SD card). Apparently the duplicate detection is buggy once a photo is imported, tagged and then re-imported.
I have "...
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How to get bigger photos' thumbnails in Nautilus?
Today I wanted to go through my photos collection but I have realised that it is quite difficult to go through thumbnails in Nautilus as it is using the free space in the window very inefficiently, e....
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Upload photos to Facebook page (not personal profile)
A couple of the various Linux photo organizer applications (Shotwell & f-spot, at least) let you upload pictures to Facebook, but as far as I can see, that's limited only to albums on your ...
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Finding corrupted images
Are there any good Ubuntu/Debian/Linux-based tools for identifying corrupted jpeg images in a collection of tens of thousands? I know that there are a few in there, but I can't bring myself to view ...
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How to transfer photos from camera to PC over Wi-Fi (Canon S110) Xubuntu 13.10
The Canon S110 comes with an optical disk containing a software bundle for Windows (and of course nothing for Linux), including an utility for connecting to the computer through WiFi.
Also I think ...
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Applications to make photo collages
Is there a good application where I can make collages using my photo collection on Ubuntu 12.04?
I Saw this link ,but couldn't find any of them in my Ubuntu software centre or the instructions to ...
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Uploading multiple photos onto facebook
I am having difficulties loading multiple photos directly from SD card onto facebook. It works fine when I select one photo at a time. When I select more than one it does not upload the photos into my ...
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How to bulk rename files numerically, in order of modification date?
I've got some photos with quite random names, but the dates (not exif, but when they were last edited) are correct. I'd like to rename them in that order, preferably so that the first photo is named 1....
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How do I delete events in shotwell?
I want to use shotwell to manage my photos (along with other power apps like F-Spot and Digicam), for various reasons, but I have one issue. I can't figure out how to delete events. Is this possible (...
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Image recognition search software?
I have recently lost an image. I know it is somewhere on my machine, but I don't know where. I have an image which looks very similar to it. Is there any kind software for Ubuntu similar to the Google ...
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Photo album making software
Looking for some good software for making photo albums for my personal use. Seen some good programs in windows that generate flash albums.
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How can I view images sorted by width and height?
I have a bunch of different sized images in a folder. I would like to sort the images by width x height and then copy some to another folder using a file explorer. (In this case i want to move all my ...
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What are these "_embedded.jpg" files that Shotwell created?
I have a bunch of these "_embedded.jpg" files alongside my other originals (RAW + JPEG). What are they and why were they created?
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Extracting meta data from raw images (DSLR camera)
I am searching for a tool, that extracts meta data out of raw images produced by a digital SLR (in my case Canon EOS 550D).
The photos can be converted by a recent version of ufraw (here is the PPA ...
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A simple picture editing software - for adding text to image
I'm looking for a software to combine photo and text, I don't need special effects just that one function. Is there a free software that is also easy to use?
I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04
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Stitching a photo below a batch of photos
I am sure there would be a simple command for this however I have not been able to find one.
Basically I would like to stitch a photo below another photo with no overlap. Also ideally I would like a ...
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Which apps support to open and convert JPEG XL (.jxl) pictures?
JPEG XL (.jxl) is the next-generation, general-purpose image compression codec by the JPEG committee (more info you can find on jpegxl.info). Which apps/programs can open and convert it?
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Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?
Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to batch convert from ...
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Adobe Lightroom 3 in Wine
Has anyone got Lightroom 3 working under wine? As with most posts out there, I have successfully completed the install, but where the photos should be (in grid view, loupe view or edit view) there are ...
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Migrating from Adobe Lightroom to Darktable
Another fed-up Windows user here. Only reason I have stuck with it for so long is because I depend on Lightroom for photo editing. I want to switch to Linux and discovered Darktable. Question: Is ...
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Online photo gallery for Ubuntu One? [closed]
I backup my photos in the cloud using Ubuntu One. I would like to view them in an online gallery in a browser (like Dropbox, which has a "photos" folder). Is this possible?
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How to detect duplicates of photos (even if the duplicate is of lower resolution) and how to keep only the higher-res copy?
Perusing thousands of photos from my smartphone transferred to my computer is a bit of a challenge. Separating the wheat from the chaff is a time consuming late-night endeavor. What makes this ...
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Nautilus is slow if a lot of images are in a directory
I have 400 images in a directory. I look at the directory with nautilus.
The first time I open the directory it is very slow. I have a modern laptop with 4 cores and plenty of RAM.
My use case:
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How does Shotwell detect duplicates?
Couldn't find any answers to this with google. When importing the same folder of pictures twice, Shotwell will skip duplicate photos. But how does it detect duplicates? If I import two different ...
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Dolphin is not showing the image dimensions metadata when previewing images on Kubuntu 16.10
The Dolphin file manager is not showing the dimensions metadata when hovering over the images and previewing them. It used to show them in the past.
How do I show the image dimensions metadata when ...
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How do I rename photos based on their shotwell titles?
I recently gave ~200 photos numerical titles in Shotwell which describe their sequences--001, 002, etc. But I'd like for this sequence to be the same in the filenames, too, so that when I open the ...
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any application which could sync pics/videos on ubuntu with picasa web album?
Since picasa is no longer available on ubuntu(and i dont want to go for the workarounds for installing it), is there some application available in Ubuntu which can sync albums with picasa web albums?
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Download picasa web photos without picasa
I am using Natty. I want to download or sync all of my picasa web photos on my disk. I know that using picasa I can do the same. But I do not want to use old (non - updated) version of picasa. (plus ...
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digikam: organize imported images by date
I am using digikam to import and organize pictures on my hard disks.
It seems that digikam is not reading the metadata to catalogue the pictures by date.
How can I force digikam to read the ...
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