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Features
•import photos from any digital camera supported by gPhoto
•automatically organize events containing photos taken at the same time
•non-destructive editing allows altering photos without ruining originals or using disk space for each copy
•one-click auto-enhancement
•rotate, mirror, and crop photos
•reduce red-eye and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of your photos
•export photos as they are or by specifying dimensions and JPEG quality to reduce size
•edit any photo, even if it’s not imported to the Shotwell library
Install Shotwell in Ubuntu
For Ubuntu 9.10 users
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
For Ubuntu 9.04 Users
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yorba/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/yorba/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Save and exit the file
Add GPG key
sudo apt-key adv
--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com--recv-keys E549B1AC
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install shotwell
sudo apt-get install shotwell
Using Shotwell
Open shotwell from Applications--->Graphics--->Shotwell
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
You can open your photo and do adjustments
Enhanced image
Shotwell Version details
looks primitive compared to f-spot -
how about migration from f-spot? Will it import f-spot’s library?
I think these are some really bad decisions coming out of canonical! Why are they trying to be so much like the mac? I use ubuntu because it is not a mac or windows! I guess I will start looking for a new distro!
I didn’t think fspot could make exposure and White balance adjustments? Which is sonething I’ve always missed from lightroom. I’ll have to go and check now as I’ll be happy if fspot can do this.
Grow up adam.
Just because a single app is changed you start “looking for a new distro”. Why can’t you just delete what you don’t want and add what you like.
Shotwell looks, well, plain. Guess I will have to evaluate how powerful it really is.
If it does not support albums, then it wont be suitable for me.
Shotwell is licensed under the LGPL version 2.1 or later.
Glad to see all the interest in Shotwell on this thread. (I’m the founder and director of Yorba, creators of Shotwell). I’ll respond to some of the questions above. Shotwell’s import capability has no specific knowledge of F-Spot, but you should be able to import the folder containing all your F-Spot photos easily. At some point we’d like to be able to import edits and tags from F-Spot (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139), but Shotwell doesn’t have tags yet so we can’t import those yet.
Shotwell does not support albums yet - that’s on our to-do list (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/81). Hopefully early next year.
You say, “…but Shotwell doesn’t have tags yet…” as though it is just another thing which might come along given time, and as though there are more pressing needs (maybe there are, but I don’t understand what they might be).
The lack of tags is the one thing holding me back from adopting it. Without tags, it becomes impractical to organise images through the manager (unless one has a superb memory for when a particular image was taken).
Tags change an application which merely lists images, into one which can be used to manage and organise them.
Surely it ought to be right at the top of your list of things to do. Just my opinion.
Tags are in fact at the top of the to-do list, and Shotwell 0.5, which will be released in March, will include tags. Tags are in fact already partially implemented in the Subversion trunk.