Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-11-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-11-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 02.11.2008 um 20:57 schrieb Lanny Marcus: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-11-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Sorry, I did mean Digikam. As you might imply from the k substituting for the c, its a KDE application (although it works fine in a gnome environment.) www.digikam.org Michael: Thank you. I will look into Digikam.

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-10-31 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-10-31 Thread Glenn
At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image manipulator. Link? Please? Digicam gives too many

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-10-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 31 October 2008 19:26:20 Glenn wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk processing, tagging images, etc. Its part image database and part image

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-10-31 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2008 19:26:20 Glenn wrote: At 02:57 PM 10/31/2008, you wrote: I recommend taking a good look at Digicam. For the types of tasks listed above, its very good and fairly easy. It also supports bulk

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-18 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-18 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:31 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: snip One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-17 Thread Niki Kovacs
Lanny Marcus a écrit : The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users are going to want to take the time to learn. Admittedly. But more in the sense of learning a few very basic steps that

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread John R Pierce
Niki Kovacs wrote: Are there some tasks one performs with Picasa that one can't perform with these native programs? Or is there some other well-made photo management software that you can recommend as a replacement for Picasa? Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
John R Pierce a écrit : Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. Looks like peeking at other apps makes me discover the ones I've got. I just fiddled around with GThumb and discovered a truly

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm running a small business (http://www.microlinux.fr) offering various services around GNU/Linux, among which migrating folks from Windows to Linux. On server and desktops, I'm using CentOS exclusively. I know, Fedora would be

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread John R Pierce
Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a closed-source Windows app that comes with a WINE emulation layer. Not

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Ric Moore
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded and installed it once. As far as I know, it's a

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:41 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: One request that I got more often lately is Google Picasa. I vaguely remember having downloaded

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-09-16 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John R Pierce a écrit : Picasa makes managing webalbums on http://picasa.google.com/ really really easy.thats its main function. everything else is icing. Looks like peeking at other apps makes me discover the ones