sxiv – image viewer

2013-12-06 1 min read Fedora Photo
sxiv is a nice alternative to feh. It is very light weight and quite useful. Here is the description: Description : sxiv is an alternative to feh and qiv. Its only dependency besides xlib is imlib2. The primary goal for writing sxiv is to create an image viewer, which only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing (the ones I want). It works nicely with tiling window managers and its code base Continue reading

viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

2010-09-25 1 min read Fedora Linux Photo
Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior Description : Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant. It&#8217;s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among its features are: Fullscreen & Slideshow Rotate, flip, save, delete images Animation support Browse only selected images Navigation window Simple interface Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

2010-09-16 2 min read Photo
Here is the description: Geeqie has been forked from the <a class="zem_slink" title="GQview" rel="homepage" href="http://gqview.sourceforge.net">GQview project with the goal of picking up development and integrating patches. It is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer for browsing through graphics files. Its many features include <a class="zem_slink" title="Point-and-click" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-click">single click file viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using <a class="zem_slink" title="Thumbnail" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail">thumbnails, and zoom. First off, this is one image viewer with a lot more features than <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www. Continue reading

Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

2010-09-12 1 min read Photo
<img class="size-medium wp-image-2472" title="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/eog-300x218.jpg" alt="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" width="300" height="218" /> Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography. To begin with, we will open eog and then go to : Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins and enable <a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading