Tool like the windows picture viewer

[Red Squirrel]

One thing I really miss from Windows is the picture viewer/editor. If I have a folder full of pics I could open one up, do basic things like crop rotate, hit the next, go to next picture, edit if needed, or delete, etc... and basically drill through them all then save them all "in place". The closest thing is Gthumb, but it has lot of anoyances. For example when you do something to a picture, it kicks you off to the first one in the list. If you have 200+ pics to go through, this is unacceptable.

Is there perhaps a better tool for this? Basically when I take pictures I always take like 10 as my camera is hit and miss so out of the 10 maybe only 2 will turn out, so I can drill through and delete the bad ones. But being kicked back to the first pic every single time makes this task very long and tedious.

 

[lxskllr]

Try Shotwell

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just checked it out, seems to do what I need.

Come to think of it, are there any decent batch resize/edit apps like Irfanview? Occasionally that comes in handy too, but most of the time I just need a quick way to go through and delete/rotate/crop so Shotwell will probably do for that.

 

[lxskllr]

I never used Irfanview, but you should be able to do that with Gimp.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh right, Gimp does have a scripting API right? I need to look into that, I've heard good things about it.

 

[Crusty]

You can install imagemagick to give you command line tools for image processing. I've got a few shell scripts I use to process RAW -> JPEG/thumbnails from my camera.

 

[Nothinman]

I've always just used the straight imagemagick commands in bash like Crusty mentions.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'll have to check that out, that might work out nicely as I can just make a little bash script for common stuff.

 

[Ken g6]

If you're rotating/resizing JPEG files in a script, you want to use "jpegtran", so it doesn't lose any quality in recompression.

Also, I've never seen that "going back to the start" problem when using "Eye of Gnome" (eog), as long as I delete from within it. It can do rotation, too, though not cropping.