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F-Spot is an image organizer
Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications....
, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
 desktop.

ot aims to have an interface that is simple to use, yet still supports advanced features such as tagging images and displaying and exporting Exif
Exchangeable image file format

Exchangeable image file format is a specification for the file format used by digital cameras. The specification uses the existing JPEG, TIFF Rev....
 and XMP
Extensible Metadata Platform

The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a standard for processing and storing standardized and proprietary metadata, created by ADBE.XMP standardizes the definition, creation, and processing of extensible metadata....
 metadata
Metadata

Metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema....
.

All major photographic image formats are supported, including JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG, TIFF, DNG and several vendor-specific RAW
RAW image format

A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or Printing....
 formats (CR2, PEF, ORF, SRF, CRW, MRW and RAF). Other supported file types are GIF, SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic ....
 and PPM.






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F-Spot is an image organizer
Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications....
, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
 desktop.

Features

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
Exchangeable image file format

Exchangeable image file format is a specification for the file format used by digital cameras. The specification uses the existing JPEG, TIFF Rev....
 and XMP
Extensible Metadata Platform

The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a standard for processing and storing standardized and proprietary metadata, created by ADBE.XMP standardizes the definition, creation, and processing of extensible metadata....
 metadata
Metadata

Metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema....
.

All major photographic image formats are supported, including JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG, TIFF, DNG and several vendor-specific RAW
RAW image format

A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or Printing....
 formats (CR2, PEF, ORF, SRF, CRW, MRW and RAF). Other supported file types are GIF, SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic ....
 and PPM. However, as of 2008, the RAW formats were not editable with F-Spot. But newer releases of F-Spot have the DevelopInUFRaw extension, which call on UFRaw
UFRaw

UFRaw is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras. UFRaw is available both as a stand-alone utility and as a GIMP plugin....
 for the conversion work, and then reimport the resulting JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
 back into F-Spot as a new version of the original RAW.

Photos can be imported directly from the camera
Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
. The driver support is provided by libgphoto2
GPhoto

gPhoto is a set of software applications and library for use in digital photography. gPhoto supports not just retrieving of images from camera devices, but also upload and remote controlled configuration and capture, depending on whether the camera supports those features....
. 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, rotate and resize are available alongside more advanced features such as red-eye removal and versioning. Color adjustments are supported, including brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and temperature.

Photo CD
Photo CD

Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and storing photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding....
s can be created by selecting multiple photographs and selecting "Export to CD" from the main menu.

Photos in the F-Spot library can be uploaded to a number of online photo storage sites. F-Spot supports two major gallery sites, Flickr
Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
 and Picasa Web Album
Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photographys, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering...
, and also using stand-alone web gallery software, including Gallery
Gallery Project

The Gallery Project is an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server....
 and . F-Spot can also generate static web gallery sites.

Technical information

F-Spot is written in the C# programming language using Mono
Mono (software)

Mono is a project led by Novell to create an Ecma International standard compliant, .NET Framework-compatible set of tools, including among others a C Sharp compiler and a Common Language Runtime....
. The F-Spot project was started by Ettore Perazzoli
Ettore Perazzoli

Ettore Perazzoli was an Italian people free software developer.Born in Milan, Italy, he studied Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university....
 and is now maintained by Larry Ewing
Larry Ewing

Larry Ewing is a United States programmer who is known as the creator of the Linux mascot, Tux. He also created the Ximian monkey logo and is involved in:...
.

See also


  • Digikam
    DigiKam

    DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....
     - A Digital photo manager for KDE
  • Comparison of image viewers
    Comparison of image viewers

    This article presents a comparison of s and s which can be used for image viewing....


External links

  • publish F-Spot library online (engl.)