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Are you still looking for application which can manage your large photos collection? If yes, then your wait is over, here is a great lightweight application called Picty. Tough there are plenty of other great photo managers available Picty is one of them, it is free, powerful, and simple photo collection manager that help user manage photos without any hassle. It uses a loss-less approach to handle images and manage metadata as well. 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.
Picty can handle more than 20,000 photo collection, allows you to create image collection in local drive, cameras, mobile devices, other media devices and web-based photo services (currently supports: Flickr). You can open as many collections as you want and transfer them anywhere you wants to. It writes and reads metadata in standard formats: IPTC, Xmp, and Exif. Other main features of this application includes basic image editing, multi-monitor support, image tagging, folder-view and so on. it also has powerful search capabilities, and supports plugins (UI features such as tagging, geolocation mapping are provided by plugins).

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Install Shotwell Photo Manager in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12 and previous Ubuntu/Mint Versions

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer that runs on Linux. Shotwell is an efficient photo organizer designed specifically for the GNOME desktop. It can edit, sort, import, and organize the image collection of the users in fast and secure manner.


What's new in this Release:
  • Raw and enhanced image - It’s smarter at keeping paired images together now.
  • Better reporting and options to save the details, if something fails.
  • Shotwell using new Facebook Graph API‘d
  • New types of circular, checkboardular, nifty new wipes.
  • Along with all this come many bugs fixed, UI nits squashed and glitches – now fixed.
Shotwell will ship as default photo manager in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring

To install shotwell in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: yorba