Tag: Metadata

F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

Table of contents for Image Viewers

  1. Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography
  2. F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.
  3. Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Here is another tool worth looking at for Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management
to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced
sorting and tagging of digital images.

First we will install the f-spot viewer.

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sudo yum install f-spot

On a side note there is a f-spot screensaver application also that you can try 🙂

Now once installed, open the application. There are basically two modes for the application, one is the file view and one is folder view. But that is something you  can explore on your own, what we will look at is the EXIF data capabilities. So, press F9 or select side pane from View menu and you will see the side pane.

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On the side pane as you can see, you can select Folder or Metadata. Select metadata to view the metadata and this is how thiw will look.

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As can be seen, the metadata is visible in the side pane. Also you can see that the support for the metadata is much better and you can see both the EXIF and the IPTC metadata. So, this definately this is one viewer that you can use to check your photos with metadata.

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Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Table of contents for Image Viewers

  1. Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography
  2. F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.
  3. Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Here is the description:

Geeqie has been forked from the GQview project with the goal of picking up development and integrating patches. It is an image viewer for browsing through graphics files. Its many features include single click file
viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using thumbnails, and zoom.

First off, this is one image viewer with a lot more features than EOG or any such light weight image viewer. So, my experience was that it was a little slower in loading images (bigger than 5MB) and opening folders with more than 150 images. Here is a brief of the image viewer with screenshots.

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One of the things that I was sceptical about is that the meta-data view window is not dock-able and is a separate window, but then it is compensated with the amount of data that is displayed in the meta-data window.

I specially like the pan view and the quad view 🙂

So, I would say that it is worth exploring this Image Viewer to see if this would fit your needs better than others.

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