viewnior – another image viewer on Linux (with support for GIF)

Here is another Linux viewer (Image) that is worth a mention. URL : <a href="http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior">http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior

Description :

Viewnior is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant.  It&#8217;s minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among  its features are:

• Fullscreen & Slideshow
• Rotate, flip, save, delete images
• Animation support
• Browse only selected images
• Navigation window
• Simple interface
• Configurable <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">mouse actions

The best part about the viewer is the ability to display gif inherently. Worth a look if you are using a lot of gif images.

F-Spot photo viewer – another tool with option to view the exif data.

Here is another tool worth looking at for <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :

F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced sorting and tagging of digital images.

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Photos you can take at home and still stunning.

Here are results of some more experiments that I did.

Setup:

1. 100 Watt <a class="zem_slink" title="Incandescent light bulb" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb">Light Bulb

2. One Bowl/Plate/Cup (whatever you wish)

3. <a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">Camera (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000)

4. Some balls (These balls come in very small size and you need to keep them in water. Once kept in water for 10-15 days they become 20-30 times of their original size. Sorry, I don&#8217;t know the name as they were gifted to me. In <a class="zem_slink" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India it is quite easy to find, not sure about other countries).

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Some home made tricks to take Quality Photos.

For the last 2 days I was trying the new settings of my camera and experimenting to take some new cool pictures. As I never had any formal training on Photography so this was my first real attempt to create photo&#8217;s at my home with whatever was available. So, I started with the following:

1. 100 Watt Bulb

2. One Glass

3. My Camera Nikon D5000

So, here are the results of the experiment:

Another interesting viewer for images on Linux – Geeqie.

Here is the description:

Geeqie has been forked from the <a class="zem_slink" title="GQview" rel="homepage" href="http://gqview.sourceforge.net">GQview project with the goal of picking up development and integrating patches. It is an <a class="zem_slink" title="Image viewer" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_viewer">image viewer for browsing through graphics files. Its many features include <a class="zem_slink" title="Point-and-click" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-click">single click file
viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using <a class="zem_slink" title="Thumbnail" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail">thumbnails, and zoom.

First off, this is one image viewer with a lot more features than <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG or any such light weight image viewer. So, my experience was that it was a little slower in loading images (bigger than 5MB) and opening folders with more than 150 images. Here is a brief of the image viewer with screenshots.

Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2472" title="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/eog-300x218.jpg" alt="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" width="300" height="218" />

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display