help with photo management

[dlanor78]

I'm looking for a good program to view my photos and also import them. I'd like the program to detect when photos are deleted with other applications (mostly gqview dupe finder) and also be able to know on importing from the camera which ones are new.

F-Spot, as far as I can tell, can't detect when photos have been deleted. And it can't import just the newest photos that aren't already on the pc.

Digikam won't let me view all my albums recursively unless I missed an option, and also can't seem to import only the newest photos. I think that's because it doesn't go through the folders recursively.

The best app I've found so far is picasa, but it runs very very very slow on this older pc.

Does anyone have suggestions for a better picasa replacement?

[linuxwizard]

Re: help with photo management

Hi

I have been looking at Album Shaper and KimDaBa. They may not work for you but worth looking at for an idea.

http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

http://www.kphotoalbum.org/index.htm

[claydoh]

Re: help with photo management

One that may have some of the features you need may be imgSeek
It can be set to scan for new images at startup, though I don't think it can detect new pics on a camera, unless you add the camera's mounting point to the image path. I haven't tried that yet, but there is a "mountable file system" option in the setup. I imagine if the program is set to scan collection at startup, it will notice removed images, not sure about removed ones

It has some extra interesting features, such as it can search for photos similar to a reference pic, and even has a little sketchpad where you can use a colored brush , though that seems more a toy for me The documentation needs reading to figure out some things, however