Linux @lemmy.ml lemmyvore @feddit.nl 6mo ago

Photo manager that deals with RAW and JPG together?

I took some photos at an event and I need to go through them and get rid of the bad ones (eyes closed, things in the shot, out of focus, blurred etc.) I'm not a pro photographer so no idea where to begin with photo apps. I've used RawTherapee and Gimp a bit.

What app will let me quickly browse the photos and handle (delete/tag) photo formats together (both the RAW and the JPG)?

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Darktable is what you want. You can also use digikam
- also RawTherapee
  
  I haven't used it in a while. Rawtherapee's editor is awesome but I don't remember an image overview. Thx for the reminder!
Another suggestion for Darktable. It handles this case of mixed types transparently. It's a big thing to learn, but extremely powerful and capable, and you don't have to know all the corners of it, just enough for your workflow.
Have a look at XNview MP

I can definitely say that it is avery good photo management program.

I am only using about 20% of it's features and it is my go to image software.
- I second this. XnView MP is one of the best free programs out there.
I recently switched away from Lightroom and now use a combination of Digikam as a DAM and Darktable for editing. I also shoot RAW+JPG and you can group these photos reasonably well in Digikam
I've never had the chance to work with the RAW format, but I think Photoprism should handle it transparently. Depending on your area of knowledge, the setup might feel a bit convoluted though.
- I think OP is looking for a desktop application, not a selfhosted cloud platform.
  
  That's very likely the case, but I'd say it makes little difference: any self-hosted application supporting web technology is also a desktop application.
Geeqie is a quick one to go trough photos and it groups RAW+JPG as a single item on preview, so even a few hundred photos are quickly ran trough with just a keyboard. I'm not sure on how well it manages tags as I don't use it for tagging, but it's most likely in your distros repository so testing it out is quick.
Digikam. It supports grouping (or stacking as it's called in Lightroom) by filename, so you can auto group RAW and JPG. It has hot keys for flagging rejects/approvals during initial inspections and review, so you can just fly through them.
Capture One has a free 30 day trial IIRC. It's great for doing this kind of thing, if you put caps lock on you can hit keys 1-5 to rate and it will auto advance.
nomacs could be an option and is multi platform

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