[clue] Light-table style photo editor?

[Darrin Goodman]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote:

> What I need is an interface where I can view a number of large
> thumbnails side-by-side, and have easy access to editing functions.


Matt, have you taken a look at gThumb?  It's a light-weight tool that will
allow you to browse through your images, view a slide-show, and it also
offers basic editing functions, such as: apply color filters, change
brightness/contrast, flip the image orientation, and rotate.  As an image
browser, one thing that I really like is that it does not import your files
into any sort of library -- there is no back-end database; rather than the
software importing your images and storing them somewhere, you get to
determine where your files are stored -- this software does not try to think
for you.
http://live.gnome.org/gthumb

-Darrin



> Hello, good linux folk--
>
> I am trying to find a special kind of photo editor for Linux. I know
> about GIMP, of course--been using it for many years--and the other usual
> suspects like Krita. But I need something a little bit different.
>
> I am doing some product photography for my web site, and I need to
> achieve a consistent appearance across a large number of photos, where
> the originals are very inconsistent (because they have been taken at
> different times with varying light, and by an inexpert photographer [me]
> working on a shoestring budget). So batch processing (e.g. ImageMagick)
> will not work.
>
> What I need is an interface where I can view a number of large
> thumbnails side-by-side, and have easy access to editing functions.
> Ideally, I would like to be able to right-click on a thumbnail and,
> using the context menu, have a choice of applying a filter directly
> (say, to adjust the contrast) or opening the photo in a separate window
> (e.g., for cropping). I also would like to be able to preview the
> results of the edit *in the thumbnail view*--again, it's that
> side-by-side comparison thing.
>
> If there is no single application that will do this, I suppose I can use
> some file manager in combination with GIMP ... it would sort of work,
> but it wouldn't make for a smooth workflow, and I expect to be doing
> this on a regular basis for the forseeable future.
>
> Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks!
>
> --
> Matt Gushee
> matt at gushee.net
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