#Gthumb best picture viewer windows software

Then I review the groups again and mark the photos with tags, usually 1-letter ones, to mark them for printing, web gallery export or posting to online forums or such. What I start with is to group similar photos (like a few from a single burst shooting) in one group. My usual workflow with it is to import photos (which means just to copy them to the program's direcotory I keep the photos in subdirectories named after dates of copying them from my card to PC), then reviewing. It allows me to tag the photos in diffrent categories - be it people, places or events. I use kphotoalbum which is a great piece of software. Digikam (sort of the same for KDE) is supposedly much, much better, but I recall it may also have been one of the ones where it keeps its own database of the images that departs from the file system. Shotwell also has very poor RAW processing capability meaning you'd still need Rawtherapee, and can't display thumbnails of videos meaning you'd still need gthumb.

That's the reason I've so far avoided things like Shotwell. I don't like the viewers that force you to crawl your hard drive and then build an internal database of your images I already have a database of my images and it's called the file system. I used to also use gthumb for general organisation, such as adding keywords into the image files, grouping them, moving/sorting them.

The GIMP increasingly I find I don't need to use this anymore as Rawtherapee does what I need. Also works with JPEGs too, of course, but you lose quality. Rawtherapee for all RAW development and exposure/geometry corrections, sharpening, colour management etc. It's also great at previewing all types of image files. It has insanely rapid fast previewing of image files, including RAW, to quickly skip through see which ones are in focus/have other issues and delete them. Geeqie for browsing thumbnails and previewing files.

#Gthumb best picture viewer windows software

I find that a combination of different software works best.