Everyone wants to preserve memorable family photos. Many different applications designed for organizing, editing, and improving pictures are very useful tool. Mac users have iPhoto available for storing their precious pictures. And the windows users have Picasa for storing pictures. Both are very good applications but none of them runs on Linux. Linux users don’t need to get upset as they can use Lphoto and F-Spot. Lphoto and F-Spot both are great iPhoto alternatives for Linux.
Lphoto is am open Source application for GNU/Linux. Lphoto lets you to manage your photo collection. It was started by Linspire and is available in different Linux versions. It is well compatible with all digital cameras. Lphoto features import and export also. Its plug and play functionality lets you to reorganize your camera when you click import. It lets you download all photos into your Photo library.
Lphoto also lets you to crop and reduce red effect. You can also enhance the photo color and make your photo look more stunning. Also you can create albums and animated slide shows and share it with your friends and family. If you desire to create web pages then Lphoto would turn your photo library into an HTML album for use on the web. For doing this there is no need of any technical knowledge is required. You also don’t need to worry about losing photos as you can easily make a back up your photos by copying them to a CD- R disc. The Password Protect iPhoto is also featured here which enables the secrecy of the files.
F-Spot is another iPhoto alternatives for Linux. F-spot is an application which is designated for personal photo management. It supports a long list of common files which includes TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and RAW. In comparison to Lphoto F-spot is much more versatile. Pictures from digital cameras, hard drive or iPod can easily be imported to the application. Importing pictures from these devices is very easy process and not requires nay technical knowledge. You can also easily upload photos stored in F-spot library to number of online photo storage sites.
F-spot features numerous functions like rotation of photos, red-eye removal, cropping the photos and resizing it. It just takes only few simple mouse clicks to carry out these tasks. You can also adjust color effects like contrast, brightness, and saturation etc.