Install Picty Photo Manager on Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.04. Picty is an easy to use photo manager for Linux Ubuntu Systems. With Picty, one can manage large photo collection in Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems. Picty helps you manage a large collection of photos. The focus is on tools to tag, organize and rearrange an image collection. Some simple editing tools are provided (using a lossless process) but advanced editing and other tasks can easily be handed off to other programs via customizable launchers, drag and drop etc.
Picty is lightweight and has a snappy interface: All the heavy lifting is done on background threads or external processes to ensure the UI never blocks. User is informed of what is going on in the background with progress notifications etc.
Picty supports local and web-based image collections:
- For local collections, picty uses a simple notion of a local photo collection: all of the images (jpeg, png, raw etc) in a directory including its subfolders. A database to speed up image queries is maintained in the users home folder.
- Picty can support browsing and management (online and offline) of web-based collections. Currently flickr is the only web based collection that is supported. You can tag your flickr photos while you are offline then go online and commit the changes.
- Each picty user can have multiple collections open at once and collections can be shared by multiple users. There is a simple interface for transferring images between collections using a transfer plugin.
- Cameras and other devices are also collections. You can browse the images on the camera just like any other collection, import a selection, or import everything.
Picty has powerful search capabilities and Picty supports plugins. The main program is relatively lightweight. UI features such as tagging, geolocation mapping are provided by plugins.
Install Picty Photo Manager on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Picty Photo Manager on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install picty
Once downloaded, open the Picty photo manager from Ubuntu Dash.
Please note that on local filesystems, metadata (descriptive information) and image edits (crop, rotate, enhance) are stored in the images. To the extent possible, databases/indexes are temporary files that can be deleted without losing useful data.
You will also need to run the following command to include other image sharing website functionality and Raw Processing:
sudo apt-get install dcraw totem python-gdata python-flickrapi python-osmgpsmap
sudo apt-get install bzr python-pyinotify python-pyexiv2 python-gtk2 python-gnome2 dcraw python-osmgpsmap python-flickrapi