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Shotwell (software)

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Active

Shotwell (software)

Developer(s)
  
Yorba Foundation Elementary

Initial release
  
June 26, 2009; 7 years ago (2009-06-26)

Stable release
  
0.26.0 / March 20, 2017; 6 days ago (2017-03-20)

Preview release
  
0.25.92 / March 15, 2017; 11 days ago (2017-03-15)

Repository
  
git.gnome.org/browse/shotwell/

Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. In 2010, it replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release.

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Features

Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to straighten, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto "enhance" option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image.

Shotwell allows users to publish their images and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Piwigo, and YouTube.

Technical information

The Yorba Foundation wrote Shotwell in the Vala programming language. It imports photos using the libgphoto2 library, similar to other image-organizers such as F-Spot and gThumb.

References

Shotwell (software) Wikipedia