Yes, all of those things are possible. Oh.... you want the long answer? see below:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:31:48 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to hear what people is using to do the following things, > if this can be done in Linux / Gentoo (I hope so): > > 1. Photo organizing. This includes downloading photos from a Canon > Powershot G6, cameras are sometimes (quite often actually) just presents like a usb disk drive. some are more proprietary, which is handled by gphoto2. There are also front ends to gphoto2, eg gtkam. > organizing it in folders (currently done with camera > software), batch renaming them using EXIF information included in > photos, editing EXIF information (currently done with Exifer: > http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/. Unfortunately this is "cardware" > closed source only for Windows) There are many good photo databases that do this kind of thing. digikam, kimdaba > > 2. Minor photo editing, like red eyes correction, composing whole > images from stitchs (currently done with camera software) > gimp > 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to > select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or > closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit > transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the > duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video > in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD. Not sure on this one, as I haven't done it. There are however plenty of suggestions if you search through portage > > 4. VCD / SVCD / DVD authoring. If possible I'd like to have a GUI for > doing this, kind of Ulead DVD Workshop, this is, you can add video > files, create menus in a graphical editor, export and burn a project > in different formats (VCD/SVCD/DVD), include the source folder with > the original images in the resulting CD/DVD... dvdstyler is a good gui front end for this. > > From what I've found I have the feeling that some of the things may be > done, but others, specially graphical CD/DVD authoring are lacking > some mature tools. > > TIA, best regards > Jose > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
