Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) Sorry, I did mean Digikam. As you might imply from the k substituting for the c, its a KDE application (although it works fine in a gnome environment.) www.digikam.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) Sorry, I did mean Digikam. As you might imply from the k substituting for the c, its a KDE application (although it works fine in a gnome environment.) www.digikam.org Michael: Thank you. I will look into Digikam. At first, I thought (assumed) the camcorder we were going to get was MiniDV, but, it uses mini DVDs. So, I just removed kino and Cinelerra looks like it has a learning curve and no online help. I will look into Digikam. Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
Am 02.11.2008 um 20:57 schrieb Lanny Marcus: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) Sorry, I did mean Digikam. As you might imply from the k substituting for the c, its a KDE application (although it works fine in a gnome environment.) www.digikam.org Michael: Thank you. I will look into Digikam. At first, I thought (assumed) the camcorder we were going to get was MiniDV, but, it uses mini DVDs. I have a co-worker who also has such a camcorder. He hates it;-) Because to edit these films, you've basically got to re-rip these DVDs Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Sorry, I did mean Digikam. As you might imply from the k substituting for the c, its a KDE application (although it works fine in a gnome environment.) www.digikam.org Michael: Thank you. I will look into Digikam. At first, I thought (assumed) the camcorder we were going to get was MiniDV, but, it uses mini DVDs. I have a co-worker who also has such a camcorder. He hates it;-) Because to edit these films, you've basically got to re-rip these DVDs I hope our luck with the mini DVD camcorder will be better! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense of learning a few very basic steps that everybody needs to know: - photo redimensioning - slimming them down (bytewise) - turning a color photograph into black and white - some basic effects (one-click, included) I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos don't forget ImageMagick which could be hosted localhost ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) Thanks, Glenn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Friday 31 October 2008 19:26:20 Glenn wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) I think that 'digikam' was the intention. I'm not able to get to my centos box at the moment to check, but digikam is included in most distros. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2008 19:26:20 Glenn wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many hits on search engine even with refining the search. (Lurking and inquisitive) I think that 'digikam' was the intention. I'm not able to get to my centos box at the moment to check, but digikam is included in most distros. I've been using digikam from the kbs-Testing repository. http://centos.karan.org/ Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense of learning a few very basic steps that everybody needs to know: - photo redimensioning - slimming them down (bytewise) - turning a color photograph into black and white - some basic effects (one-click, included) I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be surprised at all. No, I wrote impressed. I didn't know that Picasa was a google thing. I used it before, when I had a static IP and website. I just never put it into my head that it was Google's. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ https://nuoar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be surprised at all. No, I wrote impressed. I didn't know that Picasa was a google thing. I used it before, when I had a static IP and website. I just never put it into my head that it was Google's. :) Ric as far as I know, the only way to get Picasa is to download it from Google Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: snip One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. snip http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be surprised at all. snip as far as I know, the only way to get Picasa is to download it from Google I can't remember if I got Picasa with yum from the Google Repository, or somewhere else on their web site. This is from /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo/ [google] name=Google - $basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=20 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
Lanny Marcus a écrit : The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense of learning a few very basic steps that everybody needs to know: - photo redimensioning - slimming them down (bytewise) - turning a color photograph into black and white - some basic effects (one-click, included) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
Niki Kovacs wrote: Are there some tasks one performs with Picasa that one can't perform with these native programs? Or is there some other well-made photo management software that you can recommend as a replacement for Picasa? Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
John R Pierce a écrit : Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. Looks like peeking at other apps makes me discover the ones I've got. I just fiddled around with GThumb and discovered a truly great web album utility. Guess I'll try and persuade my clients to rather go for the 100% GNU/Linux solution: GThumb + GIMP. I'm rather tools-philosophy oriented. When teaching new users, I try to make them understand the importance of that. It's like not buying a TV that has also a VCR and a washing machine included. Thanks everybody for your contributions! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm running a small business (http://www.microlinux.fr) offering various services around GNU/Linux, among which migrating folks from Windows to Linux. On server and desktops, I'm using CentOS exclusively. I know, Fedora would be more suitable, but I like the solidity of CentOS, and I can always build the odd missing bits myself from Fedora SRPMS. I wouldn't count Fedora is suitable for anyone new to Linux. Heck, I wouldn't even recommend it to any one with high blood pressure. At all. :) But, I do agree with rebuilding packages to CentOS from SRPMs. My life is a lot more settled and productive using and learning to use CentOS. My two cents. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ https://nuoar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! Ric My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ https://nuoar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not exactly the open source spirit. I just bounced into my Kubuntu install to check, as they have everything but the kitchen sink to dnload and install. Nada ...came up empty there. Looks like no hope for anything in binary form to install that is used in the wide Debian Universe. :( Ric http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html That worked like a charm. I am impressed that Google has this. Thanks! google is one of the biggest supporters of Linux, you shouldn't be surprised at all. Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John R Pierce a écrit : Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. Looks like peeking at other apps makes me discover the ones I've got. I just fiddled around with GThumb and discovered a truly great web album utility. Guess I'll try and persuade my clients to rather go for the 100% GNU/Linux solution: GThumb + GIMP. The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. I like GThumb and I use it most of the time for simple things. My wife has tried a bunch of applications and she likes Picasa and that's what she uses now. As I recall, on Linux, Picasa does install with a slimmed down version of WINE that Google supplies with it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
