Browsing images in F-Spot
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Original author(s) | Ettore Perazzoli |
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Developer(s) | Larry Ewing, Stephane Delcroix, Gabriel Burt, Ruben Vermeersch, Timothy Howard, Stephen Shaw |
Stable release |
0.8.2 / December 19, 2010
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Repository | git://git.gnome.org/f-spot, https://github.com/GNOME/f-spot |
Written in | C# (GTK#), C++ |
Operating system | Linux, BSD, Solaris, other Unix-like |
Platform | Mono/GNOME |
Type | Image organizer |
License | GNU GPL |
Website | f-spot |
F-Spot is an image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the word F-Stop.
F-Spot aims to have an interface that is simple to use, yet still supports advanced features such as tagging images and displaying and exporting Exif and XMP metadata.
All major photographic image formats are supported, including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DNG and several vendor-specific RAW formats (CR2, PEF, ORF, SRF, CRW, MRW and RAF). Other supported file types are GIF, SVG and PPM. As of 2008, the RAW formats were not editable with F-Spot. However, newer releases of F-Spot have the DevelopInUFRaw extension, which calls on UFRaw for the conversion work, and then re-imports the resulting JPEG back into F-Spot as a new version of the original RAW.
Photos can be imported directly from the camera. The driver support is provided by libgphoto2. The GNOME desktop environment can also optionally detect if a camera or a memory card has been attached, and import images to F-Spot automatically.
Basic functions such as crop and rotate available alongside more advanced features such as red-eye removal and versioning. The rotate function allows for movements in single degree increments with autocrop, not just 90-degree adjustment. Color adjustments are supported with a histogram. They include an auto- improve and individual brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and temperature.