Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Imaging is made of:

Table of contents

• Digicam
• Image organiser
• Image script
• Image viewer
• Development
• Raster graphics editors
• Tools
• Vector graphics editor
• Webcam

Digicam - Support for digital imaging in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to handle digital cameras for instance to import raw images. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Libimage-exiftool-perl

library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files

Openexr-viewers

viewer for images in the OpenEXR format

Pfsview

command line HDR manipulation programs (Qt viewer)

Rapid-photo-downloader

Photo downloader (importer) from cameras, memory cards, other devices

Simple-image-reducer

GTK application to easily reduce and rotate images

Ufraw

standalone importer for raw camera images

Image organiser - Programs to organise sets of images

These programs can be used to maintain a set of images like photo collections. There are also packages to create web galleries.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Digikam

digital photo management application for KDE

Fotoxx

Edit photos and manage a large collection

Gallery-uploader

graphical tool to upload pictures and videos to Gallery

Lazygal

static web gallery generator

Mapivi

photo viewer and organizer with emphasis on IPTC fields

Shotwell

digital photo organizer

Zoph

Web based digital image presentation and management system

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Album

HTML photo album generator with theme support

Image script - Command line image processing in Debian

Debian contains a lot of tools to process images as batches using the command line. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Aaphoto

Auto Adjust Photo, automatic color correction of photos

Imagemagick

image manipulation programs -- binaries

Imaptool

tool for creating client-side image maps

Libfreehep-graphicsio-java

FreeHEP GraphicsIO Base Library

Pngquant

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utility

Transfig

??? missing short description for package transfig :-(

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Graphicsmagick

collection of image processing tools

No known packages available but some record of interest (WNPP bug)

Python-mahotas

Efficient Image Processing Library for Python

Image viewer - Image viewers in Debian

Debian contains a lot of image viewers. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Eog

Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program

Feh

imlib2 based image viewer

Fim

scriptable frame buffer, X.org and ascii art image viewer

Gliv

??? missing short description for package gliv :-(

Gpicview

lightweight image viewer

Mirage

fast and simple GTK+ image viewer

Pqiv

Powerful image viewer with minimal UI

Qiv

Quick image viewer for X

Xli

command line tool for viewing images in X11

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Djview3

Transition package, djview3 to djview4

Djview4

Viewer for the DjVu image format

Gthumb

image viewer and browser

Gwenview

image viewer

Preview.app

General purpose image viewer for GNUstep

Showfoto

image viewer/editor for KDE

Development - Libraries useful for imaging development

Debian contains a several programs to develop tools around digital images. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cimg-dev

powerful image processing library

Python-libtiff

wrapper to the libtiff library to Python using ctypes

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Libjai-imageio-core-java

Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API core

Raster graphics editors - Programs to edit raster graphics in Debian

Debian contains a lot of programs to edit raster graphics editors. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Fotoxx

Edit photos and manage a large collection

Gimp

GNU Image Manipulation Program

Xpaint

simple paint program for X

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Showfoto

image viewer/editor for KDE

Tools - Some tools which are helful for several digital imaging tasks

Debian contains a several programs to work with digital images and printing of images. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Photoprint

Image printing utility

Pvrg-jpeg

Stanford PVRG JPEG tool

Vector graphics editor - Programs to edit vector graphics in Debian

Debian contains a lot of programs to edit vector graphics editors. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Xfig

Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11

Webcam - Support for webcams in Debian

Debian contains a several programs to control a webcam. Here you can have an overview.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cheese

tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam

Guvcview

GTK+ base UVC Viewer

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Mplayer

movie player for Unix-like systems