Shotwell - The New Photo Manager in Ubuntu 10.10

As many of you already know, Shotwell will replace F-Spot in the next Ubuntu release, Maverick Meerkat, which is scheduled for October 10. Shotwell is a GTK photo management application which organizes your photos in a collection, allows them to be tagged and rated, and more.

Shotwell 0.7.2 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta

This article is about Shotwell 0.7.2, the latest release, which is included now on the beta release of Ubuntu Maverick. Here are its most important features:

- import photos from F-Spot or from a folder
- view detailed meta info about photos
- set ratings and tags
- filter images
- preview all images, view photos as slideshow, view in fullscreen mode
- sort photos by title, date or rating
- edit in external image editor
- publish photos to Facebook, Flickr or Picasa Web Albums

Publishing to Facebook

- export photos to JPEG or PNG, with the possibility to rescale them

Exporting photos

Shotwell will also organize photos using the so-called "events", sorting them depending on the date they were taken.