KPhotoAlbum will read RAW files, via the omnipresent dcraw utility, but you can tell it would rather not – there's even an option to ignore RAW files if a similarly-named JPEG image is present. It's quick and easy to make slideshows too.
It has a timeline device similar to F-Spot, and can organise images based on tags or properties. In organisational terms, once the images have been added, there's a lot to be said for KPhotoAlbum.
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The software will only index a single directory, so all your images will have to live in the same place.Īlso, there's no real notion of importing files from a camera or card reader – if you want them in your album, you must copy them yourself. One of the first downers about KPhotoAlbum is that it immediately asks you where you want to store all your images. In fact, a lot of work has been done on the KDE graphics libraries to make them share nicely, much to the benefit of KPhotoAlbum in terms of its Exif data support, for example. KPhotoAlbum doesn't really pretend to be anything much more than an organising and viewing tool, and sits in alliance with Digikam on the KDE side of the fence. KPhotoAlbum: Organise your shots and export to practically anywhere Website: A packed list of features and great output quality ranks this with the best It does tend to run more reliably on some distros, such as SUSE. Newer releases have had some stability issues, but sadly this is more to do with the underlying KDE libraries being flaky.
It might not be the most simple software to use – many of its best features take some searching for – but it has so many tools that it's difficult to make them all easy to get to.
If you can't remember where an image is stored, but do know what it looks like, you can always try the fuzzy search – draw your best shot at the photo and Digikam will try to match it.