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picty is a photo manager designed around managing metadata and a lossless approach to image handling.
metadata: descriptive and other information about images
(created by you, your camera or the programs you use) that are
embedded inside image files alongside the pixels.
lossless: by only ever writing information about images, including
image processing instructions, as metadata, the original image pixels
are never altered allowing you to preserve the images as they were taken
on your camera.
Key features:
Supports big photo collections (20,000 plus images).
Open more than one collection at a time and transfer images between them.
Collections are:
picty does not "Import" photos into its own database, it simply provides an interface for accessing them wherever they are. To keep things snappy and to allow you to browse even if you are offline, picty maintains a cache of thumbnails and metadata.
Reads and writes metadata in industry standard formats Exif, IPTC and Xmp
Lossless approach:
Basic image editing:
Image tagging:
Folder view:
Multi-monitor support
Customizable
Nightly builds for Ubuntu 12.04 and above are available at the launchpad ppa: https://launchpad.net/~damien-moore/+archive/ppa
Experimental Windows builds can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/picty/files/
Or run from source...
Get the source
::
git clone https://github.com/spillz/picty
Dependencies
The python packages required to run picty are (available in most linux repos)::
python (2.5 - 2.7)
python-pil
python-gtk2
python-gnome2
python-pyexiv2
python-pyinotify
recommended packages::
dcraw (basic raw processing support)
totem (video thumbnailing)
python-flickrapi (flickr collection support)
python-osmgpsmap (geotagging support)
Run picty
Run the following commands in the terminal::
cd <pictysourcedir>
bin/picty
or see the INSTALL file for installation information. The benefits of installing are media support, desktop menus, and file manager integration (right click, open with picty for any image).
A very incomplete draft of the user documentation is contained within the source code and can be viewed on GitHub <https://github.com/spillz/picty/blob/master/user-guide/index.rst>
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Support and other information about picty is available at google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/pictyphotomanager
Or file an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/spillz/picty/issues
(c)
2013 Damien Moore
License: GPL v3
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.