Manage your photo collection with F-Spot
There are tons of applications out there that help you manage your photo collections. Some of these applications are nothing more than glorified file managers, some are more in-line with image editors. Stuck in the middle of this vast gray area are tools like F-Spot which serve a very specific purpose – manage your photo collections. F-Spot is a full-featured photo management application for the GNOME desktop. Not only will it manage your local collections, it will easily import photos from your digital camera, and handle some simple editing tasks (adjust red-eye, rotation, adjust color settings). As I mentioned in my article “Linux equivalents to popular MAC apps“, F-Spot is very similar to iPhoto (but without all of the added layers of confusion).
In this article I will introduce you to this photo collection tool that will more than likely become your de facto standard photo manager for the Linux operating system.
There are tons of applications out there that help you manage your photo collections. Some of these applications are nothing more than glorified file managers, some are more in-line with image editors. Stuck in the middle of this vast gray area are tools like F-Spot which serve a very specific purpose – manage your photo collections. F-Spot is a full-featured photo management application for the GNOME desktop. Not only will it manage your local collections, it will easily import photos from your digital camera, and handle some simple editing tasks (adjust red-eye, rotation, adjust color settings). As I mentioned in my article “Linux equivalents to popular MAC apps“, F-Spot is very similar to iPhoto (but without all of the added layers of confusion).
In this article I will introduce you to this photo collection tool that will more than likely become your de facto standard photo manager for the Linux operating system.
