This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 09 May 2008, by Marco Castellani.
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09 May 08
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F-Spot organizes your pictures in a folder in your home directory called Photos. It subdivides that folder into a folder for each year, and those folders have subfolders for each month and then another for each day. The program figures out the appropriate dates by reading the EXIF metadata from the photos themselves. As long as the clock on your digital camera is set correctly when you take photos, F-Spot files it correctly.
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Tags can be nested as well. For example, all of the tags for my children are nested under a Family tag, and my Wallpapers tag is subdivided into Abstract, Landscape and Other.
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Photos also can have more than one tag associated with them, so for photos with more than one child in them, I simply tagged them with every child in the photo
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Slowness aside, uploading to Flickr is fairly painless and much easier than uploading the photos manually.
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F-Spot includes several basic photo editing controls.
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Despite these annoyances, F-Spot is off to a great start. It has not been around very long, and it already is one of the better Linux photo management programs.
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n the end, F-Spot became my photo manager of choice because it has brought order and sanity to my ever-growing collection of family snapshots. If you're a GNOME user, or curious about Mono, you owe it to yourself to give F-Spot a try.
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