It is a utility for viewing my photo collection.
It does not have file manager capabilities but one can navigate between directories.It runs under Linux. It has run under Windows98 but this port is not up to date.
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By calling other applications I can
- - Download from my camera
- thumbnails
- full image
- audio files
- - Resize an image
- - view fullscreen within tk & play associated wav file
- - view exif data
- - add/alter jpeg comments
- - edit text (*.txt) files
- - open an image in the Gimp
- - run a slide show
Applications Required
- tcl/tk with img extension working
- convert (from ImageMagick package)(resize images)
- gimp (photo editing)
- gphoto2 (camera downloads)
- rdjpgcom & wrjpgcom (read/insert comments in jpeg)
- mplayer (play .wav files attached to images)
- exifutils (http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils/html/downloads.html) (view exif data)
- qiv (slide show)
I use the ActiveTcl package because it integrates the various extensions which are available. It is also available for windows.
The exifutils package is closed source. The free restricted option is sufficient for my purposes. Linux & Windows versions available.
rdjpgcom & wrjpgcom, also qiv are Linux only, the rest are available for both platforms.
For photo albums I created a master directory 'photos' and the various albums are sub directories. There can be several levels of sub directories if desired. Each 'album' will have a subdirectory 'thumbnails' to hold a small copy of each image in the album.
These thumbnails are created automatically when downloading from a camera, or, if an image is created in the gimp, by selecting the item in the "picture" menu.
Photoutils runs in full screen mode only, and this is irrespective of the screen resolution.
COPYRIGHT © 2005 J B Marchant. This is free software; you are free to use it for non commercial purposes as you wish. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Contact me at "barry-m@paradise.net.nz" with 'Photoutils' in the subject line.
Download the tcl script here
Download the Help file here (updated 23-06-2006)