Questions tagged [photo-management]
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How to list photos by date in folders?
I have many photos in a folders but I am not able to see the details of the shooting, so I am not able to order them by time.
I can only view the last modify time
I use Ubuntu 14.04 with default ...
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Show photo/video slideshow with photo captions
I'm trying to find a straightforward way to create a date-ordered slideshow from a directory that contains a mix of photos and videos (e.g. the output of a smartphone camera from a holiday). Ideally ...
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Reorganize photos from an existing folder structure into a new structure
I have a directory of photoys that have been (re-) organized before into a directory structure: Year/Month/Day.
Apart from the fact that it is not a convenient grouping to me, there are errors in it. ...
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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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How should I transfer photo (jpeg) files from my ubuntu 14.04 PC and display them on my iPad, without using iTunes?
I am very happy to manage my photo files centrally on my Ubuntu 14.04 PC.
It is easy to mount an i-device onto the PC using a USB cable and opening Nautilus. (congrats for making that so seamless, ...
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Converting from Samsung'r RAW to TIFF
I have purchased a mirrorless Samsung NX300 which is a nice entry-leve mirrorless camera. However Samsung produces a stupid proprietary RAW format instead of the standard RAW format (do other vendors ...
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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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What does Shotwell do when I move photos inside the photo directory
I have enabled 'Watch library directory for new files' and imported many photos with the settings <Lib>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<..>.
I have since decided to move to <...
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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 install Digikam on Ubuntu 14.04?
It seems that Digikam was removed from Ubuntu 14.04. Why was that?
Considering that Digikam is the only photo organizer which works with geo-tagged photos, what would be the best way to install ...
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Which diashow viewer has a shuffle functionality?
I would like to see all images in my image library in a diashow in a shuffled order. I tried some viewers, but they don't get along with my 100GB of photos or they want me to copy all folders in a ...
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xport list of duplicate images on digikam/findimagedupes/fsplint/geeqie
I have 60000 images. And when I ask any of the following tools to come up with similar photos, all of them pop out a big list of around 3000 names of images. digikam gives a cool UI which lets me see ...
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How to export from Digikam to Google+
Digikam is an excellent photo management program which has built in support to easily export images to PicassaWeb. Picassa is now owned by Google, who are deprecating it in favour of Google Plus.
How ...
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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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Transfer of photos from UbuntuOne to my computer
How do I get photos from UbuntuOne storage to my computer?
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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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darktable can't startup
During darktable startup from console I get:
nnnn@nn:~$ darktable
darktable: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcolordprivate.so.1: undefined symbol: cmsGetHeaderCreator
I tried to ...
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Raw processing grainy under Ubuntu 12.04?
I try to convert Raw files to jpgs in Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit). I used UFraw, Rawtherapee and Darktable. All 3 converters seem to have problems since there are "hot pixels" (black dots in the resulting ...
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How can I find all the images on my system?
Is there something I can use to find all the pictures on my system including external HD so that I can copy them all into one folder?
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Shotwell remembers old image names - how to I get it to use the new names instead?
I have changed the names of some photos in my collection, but Shotwell is still remembering old names of mentioned images.
I tried changing shotwell's directory names to force it to generate a new ...
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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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Pictures uploaded from phone to PC show in Shotwell, but I can't find them in my home folder
I downloaded pictures from my phone to my computer.
All the pictures are now on Shotwell photo manger, but how do I get them so I can see them from my home folder? I tried right clicking to move ...
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What is the default method / program to download photos from a photo camera to the computer?
I am in Xubuntu 12.10 and Thunar doesn't access the camera memory (Canon) so as to just copy/paste the pictures.
I want to import the pictures onto the PC.
I heard about F-spot and rapid-photo-...
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How do I display database statistics in Darktable?
Is there a way of showing stats abut the whole Darktable system?
I would be interested in things like...
number of images
by camera
by file type
current queue stats
how many (if any) images ...
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Does Darktable manage the files of a collection?
I am currently trying out Darktable.
Coming from Digikam I am confused about several things, the most prominent for me being:
Does Darktable manage my files on disk?
In Digikam, I define a ...
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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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Shotwell: Storing part of library on external HDD
I am trying to sort out my Ubuntu photo workflow, and I wondered if anyone could offer some advice.
I store my photo library on an external HDD, which is on my desk at home. I would like to be able ...
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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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What native GUI applications can easily make a photo collage grid?
Despite being an Ubuntu user for many years, for several years I have been using Picasa on Windows to make photo collage grids of my photos.
The process for doing this is to select either a folder ...
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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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How to upload photos from Shotwell?
I only started using Ubuntu a couple months ago. I've been able to get pictures from my camera onto the machine. The system is very different for me and I'm trying to work it out on my own, but I ...
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Photo Management on remote server
I am trying to find a way to manage and organize the photos on my NAS. I am using freenas and have a folder with all of my photos in it. I want to be able to manage and organize those photos and find ...
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How to manage many pictures both on pc as on external hard drives?
I'm using Darktable to edit and rate my pictures.
However at some point the folders need to be moved to an external HDD.
How do you manage that?
It would be great to be able to search for tags (maybe ...
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Why does the Software Centre ask me to install untrusted packages?
I am trying to install Darktable on my Ubuntu 12.04 64bit desktop computer. When I attempt to install it through the Ubuntu Software Centre I get a warning:
"Requires installation of untrusted ...
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How to create folders structure in shotwell [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can Shotwell create a folder structure based on the event a photo is assigned to?
Trying to sort my photo folder using shotwell, aside shotwell is good almost for everything.....
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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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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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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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Can't transfer photos from Kodak Easy Share C195 Camera
I am unable to mount and transfer photos from my Kodak C195 Digital Camera to my Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04.
Is there software that I need to download to get my camera to mount to my OS? I have ...
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Lubuntu 12.04, what is the best method to upload pics from my Canon Powershot A520-A510
In Lubuntu 12.04, what is the best method to upload pics from my Canon Powershot A520-A510 camera? Do I need to install an app? If so, which app do you recommend. I am new to Linux, and presently ...
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Phone connecting as mass-storage: how can I import photos?
When I connect my Android phone to Ubuntu computed via USB, no photos can be imported. The new USB drive is opened instead containing my various junk from SD-CARD which is a phone's optional external ...
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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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Program to Help Order Undated Photos
I have a large number of photos which have the correct DateTimeOriginal set in EXIF.
I have about 300 photos for which the DateTimeOriginal is completely wrong. The DateTimeOriginals of these photos ...
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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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How can I run Digikam after installing it?
I have installed Digikam in the Software Center on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system but I cannot find it. I have checked out Applications but it is not there. I know I have it because when I view the ...
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Photo Special Effects Software
I would like to know about a software for creating special effects on photos just like on http://avatar.pho.to/ . it is not necessary that it should have all effects. you may even recommend more than ...
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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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Tethered Camera Shooting
What is recommended for (tethered shooting) using Nikon and Canon Cameras. Should be able to zoom, focus and shoot from input device, mouse/keyboard or preferred touch-pad on laptop. Connection via ...
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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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