gThumb is an open-source
image viewerAn image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats...
and
organizerAn image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications.- Common image organizers features :...
for the
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released under the
GNU General Public LicenseThe GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
. It was originally based on
GQViewGQview is a free software image viewer created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available....
, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.
Features
gThumb allows the filesystem to be browsed for images. They can be organized into catalogs, or viewed as a
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. Folders and catalogs can be bookmarked, and comments may be added to images.
Via
gPhotogPhoto is a set of software applications and libraries 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.Released under the GNU...
it can also acquire data directly from
digital cameraA digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
s.
Many basic
image editingImage editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any...
features are included, such as: rotation, resizing, cropping, and image enhancing filters such as color, brightness and contrast adjustment.
gThumb can export web-based albums with various theme templates. These albums can be uploaded to a
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, providing a very simple mechanism for publishing collections of photos on the web.
gThumb also includes many basic features essential to any image viewer such as copying, moving, deleting or duplicating images, printing, zooming, format conversion, and batch renaming.
Starting from version 2.12.0 gThumb now allows you to export photos to various popular website such as
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,
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,
PhotobucketPhotobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007....
, and
PicasaPicasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...
Web Album.