On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Matt Gushee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@gushee.net">matt@gushee.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What I need is an interface where I can view a number of large<br>
thumbnails side-by-side, and have easy access to editing functions.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<a href="http://live.gnome.org/gthumb">http://live.gnome.org/gthumb</a><br><br>-Darrin<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, good linux folk--<br>
<br>
I am trying to find a special kind of photo editor for Linux. I know<br>
about GIMP, of course--been using it for many years--and the other usual<br>
suspects like Krita. But I need something a little bit different.<br>
<br>
I am doing some product photography for my web site, and I need to<br>
achieve a consistent appearance across a large number of photos, where<br>
the originals are very inconsistent (because they have been taken at<br>
different times with varying light, and by an inexpert photographer [me]<br>
working on a shoestring budget). So batch processing (e.g. ImageMagick)<br>
will not work.<br>
<br>
What I need is an interface where I can view a number of large<br>
thumbnails side-by-side, and have easy access to editing functions.<br>
Ideally, I would like to be able to right-click on a thumbnail and,<br>
using the context menu, have a choice of applying a filter directly<br>
(say, to adjust the contrast) or opening the photo in a separate window<br>
(e.g., for cropping). I also would like to be able to preview the<br>
results of the edit *in the thumbnail view*--again, it's that<br>
side-by-side comparison thing.<br>
<br>
If there is no single application that will do this, I suppose I can use<br>
some file manager in combination with GIMP ... it would sort of work,<br>
but it wouldn't make for a smooth workflow, and I expect to be doing<br>
this on a regular basis for the forseeable future.<br>
<br>
Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks!<br>
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Matt Gushee<br>
<a href="mailto:matt@gushee.net">matt@gushee.net</a><br>
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