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From: Whirled.Peas on 3 May 2010 08:34
The Linux Ware Weekly #11

Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce
Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various
tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are
suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be
exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably
overlook several applications since there are so many different programs
written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones.

This week we are going to look at photo album managers. My sister-in-law
takes more photos than any three other people I know. She, and many other
folks, is quite happy with Picasa as her photo manager. I've always felt
that Picasa lacks . . . something, though I am not entirely sure what it
is I feel it lacks. If you are of the same mind, perhaps you will find
what you are looking for among these programs. There are many, MANY photo
managers available regardless of your OS of choice.


GUI Programs:

Zoph
Homepage: http://www.zoph.org/concrete/
Zoph is an acronym for Zoph Organizes PHotos. There are many photo-
gallery programs available. Zoph is different, as it concentrates on the
management of large collection of photos instead of just showing them on
the Web. It can store a lot of information about your photos, including
the regular EXIF info, photographer, location, title, description,
rating, and the people in the photo. Photos can appear in multiple albums
and categories. Additional features include search, slideshows,
lightboxes, email, access privileges, and multiple languages.


Jbrout
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/jbrout/
jBrout is a photo manager. It can manage albums and photos, tag photos
with IPTC keywords, use internal JPEG thumbnails, add comments to photos
and albums, losslessly rotate JPEG files and internal JPEG thumbnails,
and use EXIF info. It uses plugins to add a variety of features such as
exporting to HTML, acting like an HTTP server, and exporting to email. It
works without a database, and has been tested with a collection of over
20,000 photos.


Gallery
Homepage: http://gallery.menalto.com/
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to
install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to
create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an
intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail
creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums
can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual
authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.


Pictag
Homepage: http://www.islandjohn.com/www.islandjohn.com/Home/
Entries/2009/2/16_Pictag.html
Pictag is a simple web photo gallery with automatic thumbnail generation
and tagging capability. It's self-contained in a single file, uses the
filesystem for gallery layout, and requires no stand-alone database (it
uses SQLite) or no database at all. It handles EXIF data, provides
support for HTTP user authentication and authorization, and is
customizable.


Eyes of Lynx
Homepage: http://people.easter-eggs.org/~valos/dokuwiki/doku.php?
id=projects:eyes_of_lynx
Eyes Of Lynx is a Web-based application that allows you to share,
examine, and manage your photo albums. It's designed to be fast,
intuitive, and very powerful. Its key features include an original and
innovative interface, zoom and rotation tools, auto-rotation of photos
when an orientation is provided in EXIF data (information stored by
digital cameras), a cache of images in a smaller/intermediate size to
increase display and loading speeds, thumbnail image navigation, and more.


Zenith Picture Gallery
Homepage: http://cyberiapc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10435&pid=45096
Zenith Picture Gallery is a feature-rich picture gallery that organizes
uploaded images into searchable categories, creates thumbnails, and
stores individual statistics for each one. Other features include
downloadable categories and sub-categories, user accounts and profiles,
batch adding via FTP and batch deleting, user comments and ratings, the
ability to add languages and skins, the option to rebuild thumbnails, an
IP blacklist, and a comprehensive admin control panel that provides
access to a great deal of settings and formatting options.


LinPHA
Homepage: http://linpha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
LinPHA is an easy-to-use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/
album/gallery written in PHP. It uses an SQL database (MySQL/PostgreSQL/
SQLite) to store information about your pictures. It comes with an HTML-
based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL
databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB. It
features complete user management, top ten statistics, hidden albums,
different themes, slideshow, filemanager, uploader, watermarks,
benchmark, printing, and more.


tmphoto
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/tmphoto/
tmphoto is a Web photo gallery with a fairly advanced metadata structure,
allowing photos to be described in terms of place, category, persons in
the photo, and events. The places, categories, persons, and events can be
further described. It offers a nice browsing interface based on the
metadata.


Piwigo
Homepage: http://piwigo.org/
Piwigo is a photo gallery system for the Web. The project started in 2002
and was built by an active community of users and developers. It comes
with powerful features for publishing and managing your photos,
scalability, and smart browsing capabilities such as categories, tags, or
chronology. It is Web and photo standard compliant. Extensions make Piwigo
even more scalable and customizable.


Ansel
Homepage: http://www.horde.org/ansel/
Ansel is a Horde photo gallery that provides functionality for managing
unlimited photo galleries, with thumbnails, paging, EXIF data, and
permissions on a per-gallery basis. It also provides a number of features
not normally found in Web-based photo galleries, including cropping,
resizing, rotating, watermarking, and greyscale effects.


blueMarine
Homepage:
blueMarine is a Java application for supporting the digital photo
workflow. It includes tools for managing, organizing, editing, and
publishing photos. The latest releases also added support for GeoTagging.
An open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine
project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos,
from the shoot up to the archiving and beyond. blueMarine is an
expandable, open platform and includes specific support for different
photographers communities, as well as the latest technologies.



Terminal Programs:

album
Homepage: http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/
I'll admit that listing album here is sort of cheating as it has several
GUI front ends available. It started as a command line perl script, so it
sort of fits as a console program since it can still be run that way.
album is a free HTML/XHTML photo album and gallery generator that
supports themes/skins. You can choose different themes or write your own
to get different layouts and styles. It creates all your thumbnails
(including directory thumbnails) and descends into directories so you can
organize your photos. See the home page for more examples. album is also
multi-lingual, with many languages being added all the time. N.B.: The
purchase link is provided for donations; the software does not cost
anything.


JAlbum
Homepage:
Jalbum is another script that generates a gallery. JAlbum makes Web
albums of your digital images. No extra software is needed to view your
galleries other than a Web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, a
JAlbum gallery can be served from a plain Web server without scripting
support. JAlbum's built in Web server allows you to share your albums
straight from JAlbum. You can also share your albums on a CD.



--
If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Wheel on 4 May 2010 17:20
Whirled.Peas wrote:
> The Linux Ware Weekly #11
>
> This week we are going to look at photo album managers. ...

You've done it again; just as we were, in a state of quandary and panic,
having to present our new "Spinning Leaves" facilities to our overseas
investors in a striking professional manner. As well you know; first
impressions last. :)

I'll have a go one, at some point.

Thank you.

P.S.

I've found a way to freeze Mint, although it takes a 5GB .wav file,
Audacity, some degree of impatience and aggressive editing to achieve
it. Even so, not reliably. :)

My Xp machine's system HDD has 73,988 running hours (23,972,112,000
revolutions, approximately) with the last OS re-install date of
30-Mar-2005. Setting aside my luck with the drive, I hadn't realized how
restrictive and careful you have to be to attain this kind of stability
and reliability on a constantly active and evolving machine.

Although I'm still unwilling to connect raw, sans NAT. I'm able to use
Mint (cookies, flash cookies, DOM handling etc. taken as read) as a
teenager without a care in the world: Weird, very weird, but refreshing.
From: Whirled.Peas on 5 May 2010 03:24
On Tue, 04 May 2010 22:20:50 +0100, Wheel wrote:

> Although I'm still unwilling to connect raw, sans NAT. I'm able to use
> Mint (cookies, flash cookies, DOM handling etc. taken as read) as a
> teenager without a care in the world: Weird, very weird, but refreshing.

That peculiar smell you've been noticing? It's called freedom.

Breathe deeply. :-)

--
If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Wheel on 5 May 2010 18:48
Whirled.Peas wrote:
> On Tue, 04 May 2010 22:20:50 +0100, Wheel wrote:
>
>> Although I'm still unwilling to connect raw, sans NAT. I'm able to use
>> Mint (cookies, flash cookies, DOM handling etc. taken as read) as a
>> teenager without a care in the world: Weird, very weird, but refreshing.
>
> That peculiar smell you've been noticing? It's called freedom.
>
> Breathe deeply. :-)

I've always said; "Be very wary of the born again."

I've seen the light! :)

From: wasbit on 6 May 2010 07:31


"Whirled.Peas" <peas(a)earth.org> wrote in message
news:hrmfs8$i7o$1(a)news.datemas.de...
> The Linux Ware Weekly #11
>
> Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce
> Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various
> tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are
> suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be
> exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably
> overlook several applications since there are so many different programs
> written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones.
>
> This week we are going to look at photo album managers. My sister-in-law
> takes more photos than any three other people I know. She, and many other
> folks, is quite happy with Picasa as her photo manager. I've always felt
> that Picasa lacks . . . something, though I am not entirely sure what it
> is I feel it lacks. If you are of the same mind, perhaps you will find
> what you are looking for among these programs. There are many, MANY photo
> managers available regardless of your OS of choice.
>
< Big Snip>



Gotta say, even us Windows users are finding your weekly digest a good read.
Thanks Whirled.Peas.

The two missing links for #11 :

BlueMarine - http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/

JAlbum - http://jalbum.net/

Regards wasbit

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