FotoTaggerMD - Add metadata to your photos

FotoTaggerMD is a metadata editor for your photos and images. With FotoTaggerMD you may simply add a title, tags and description to your photos without the need to import the photos to a complex photo managing software.

FotoTaggerMD uses IPTC metadata and displays a link to Google Maps if your photo contains EXIF GPS metadata.
FotoTaggerMD is based on the Qt Framework and the exiv2 library. The program is written in Python.
The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Requirements

You need to install the following packages to run FotoTaggerMD (note for Windows users: everything you need is contained in the setup package below, you don't have to install anything else):

• - Python
• - PyQt
• - pyexiv2 which depends on:
• - exiv2

Download

• - Windows setup: fototagger-0.1.1.exe
• - TAR.GZ source package: fototagger-0.1.1.tar.gz

The source package contains the Python source of FotoTaggerMD.

Usage

On Windows you just install the software by starting the .exe package you downloaded above. An entry in the start menu will automatically be created.

Unpack the package and change into the created directory:

$ tar xzf fototagger-0.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd fototagger-0.1.1

Then, to start the program:

$ python fototagger.py

When the main programm windows opened you may click on the "Select..." button. Browse to the folder containing your photos or images. Then "Open" that folder. Your images are loaded, this may take a while depending on the size and amount of your images.
Your images will be displayed in the left view of the main window. You may click on each image or scroll down the view to see more photos. When you click on a photo, the current (IPTC) metadata will be displayed on the right side of the main window. There you can edit the "Title", "Tags" and "Description" of the currently selected image. If your image contains (EXIF) GPS metadata, then a "Google Maps Link" will appear at the bottom of the right side of the main window. Edit the metadata in the fields on the right side and click on "Save" to save the metadata. As long as you do not click on save, no metadata will be written to the image.

A note on the metadata: the title, tags and description will be saved as IPTC metadata, as most software and online image libraries (like for example Flickr) will rely on IPTC metadata. The description field will also be written as an EXIF "UserComment", as this field is used by other kinds of software (like the Eye of GNOME on Linux).

digiKam

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. The people who inspired digiKam's design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems. You can take a look into the digiKam Overview page to take a tour or the Features page to see more advanced information about.

Download : http://www.digikam.org

Cheese

What is Cheese?

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others. After a success of the Summer of Code, the development continued and we still are looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;)

What are the Requirements?

• GNOME 2.26
• GStreamer 0.10
• postr for Flickr export (optional)
• f-spot for F-Spot export (optional)
• nautilus-sendto for improved export (optional)
• a webcam
• a brain

For a more detailed list of requirements, have a look at the README file

Download : http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/

ShowImg

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer for KDE including an image management system. It is highly configurable and supports numerous image formats.

About

Viewer

• display JPEG, PNG (alpha layer supported), GIF, XCF, PSD, etc. files;
• open several directories, and archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, rar, ...);
• apply filters to displayed image;
• preview, fullscreen, slideshow, ``fit-to-screen'', efficient zoom;
• open files with external programs;
• support EXIF header (JPEG file metadata);
• display a hexadecimal view;
• play yout video files.

Management

• manage all you photos (in a database using KexiDB () ;
• batch rename;
• search for exact and similar images;
• several formats conversion;
• manage photo albums.

Configuration

• kipi plugins supported (see kipi plugin homepage);
• configurable interface.

Website : http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/

FSpot

I have Canon EOS-400D and want to transfer my image into my notebook.
Here is my way to imported.
1. Connect CANON cable data to USB Port
2. Turn ON camera
3. Pop-up windows will show which ask which application to use imported picture


4. Choose "fSpot" then press OK
5. Select photo pop-up will appear
6. Choose photo which will be imported
7. Press "Copy"


8. Foto now imported to our hardisk

gThumb

gThumb is an image viewer written for the GNOME environment. It lets you browse your hard disk, showing you thumbnails of image files. It also lets you view single files (including GIF animations), organize images in catalogs, print images, view slideshows, set your desktop background, and more. gThumb also supports Nautilus thumbnails.

Homepage:
http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/2.10/
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/2.10/

For ubuntu :
apt-get install gthumb