What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders.
Chris Green wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders.
Have you tried picasa?
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 08:58:59PM +0000, Paul Matthews wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders.
Have you tried picasa?
No, but I am now, it seems the sort of thing I'm after, thanks.
On 3/4/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
F-spot or digikam. I've used both and found them to do exactly what you expect. I prefer digikam but as a gnome user I tend to try to use f-spot more.
Cheers, Al.
On 3/4/06, Alan Pope alan.pope@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/4/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
F-spot or digikam. I've used both and found them to do exactly what you expect. I prefer digikam but as a gnome user I tend to try to use f-spot more.
I use gqview, but it is very simple, so I'm on the lookout for something more interesting too. I'll try them both!
Tim.
Chris Green wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
Assuming you're using XP, Windows explorer and windows picture viewer for quick viewing. I've tried all kinds of other file managers and picture viewers and none have been as easy and quick to use as the windows built in stuff.
Andy
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:01:51PM +0000, Andy Cannon wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
Assuming you're using XP, Windows explorer and windows picture viewer for quick viewing. I've tried all kinds of other file managers and picture viewers and none have been as easy and quick to use as the windows built in stuff.
I'm generally in agreement in the sense that the HP Image stuff that came with my printer and the junk that came with my (old) Kodak camera were rubbish. However (I'm in win2k) windows explorer doesn't show me thumbnails of the pictures, that's really the only extra I want.
Chris Green wrote:
However (I'm in win2k) windows explorer doesn't show me thumbnails of the pictures, that's really the only extra I want.
Well, I use as an internet seer thingy, Mozilla Firefox and it does, set the tools menu whatever you need to see
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Chris Green wrote:
However (I'm in win2k) windows explorer doesn't show me thumbnails of the pictures, that's really the only extra I want.
Ah, I see. I had that problem with my laptop. I ended up upgrading it to XP because of it and I'm glad I did as it runs faster.
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html has some good programmes on it but Picassa probably does everything you want.
Andy
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:55 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders.
I actually really like gThumb... if you are just dragging individual photos about it has quite an intuitive interface...It's also pretty fast at rendering the thumbnails for even very full folders.
Xnview http://www.xnview.com/
Free, very useful utility does what you want it to plus a whole lot more.
David
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What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
I think what I'm after really is a simple file manager utility that shows files as thumbnail images rather than just filenames so I can see what the pictures are, select them and organise them in folders.
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On 04/03/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
What do others use as a file manager for photographs?
My votes go to Picasa (superb) and Xnview (quick and does the job).
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