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How can I crop images?
Photos (and its companion Photo Viewer) is installed by default and can crop images.
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Pantheon Integration of Google Drive
google-drive-ocamlfuse is what you want.
It integrates Google Drive as a removable drive into Pantheon Files and/or Nautilus. It is free too.
Find detailled info on how to set it up (and to ...
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Can Photo viewer only crop to the aspect ratio of the original image
On elementary OS Loki 0.4, I solved the problem by installing dconf-editor
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
Then with dconf-editor navigate to org/panthenon/photos/crop-settings and set last-crop-...
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How can I delete image files using default Photos app?
You can't, yet:
https://github.com/elementary/photos/issues/44
https://github.com/elementary/photos/issues/51
It's one of the features I'm hoping are added in the future: Working with photos in ...
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Can Photo viewer only crop to the aspect ratio of the original image
The aspect ratio can be changed:
To enable it, try running this command:
gsettings reset-recursively org.yorba.shotwell.crop-settings
Image Source
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How can I crop images?
GIMP
GIMP is a free graphic manipulation tool.
Installation:
From software center.
You can also install it through the terminal, if you are comfortable doing that, by running this command:
sudo ...
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How to resolve shotwell incompatible error? Shotwell freezes
Removing the shotwell cache amounts to lose your database. In order to change the schema of your database:
Make a copy of the database,
Do echo "update versiontable set schema_version=20;" | sqlite3 ~...
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How to update photos in elementary OS Freya?
It is not advisable to upgrade photos because, it may leads to incompatible issues. The reason is Shotwell 0.1.1 is based on schema 21 where as the version is 0.18 (or other) based on schema 20.
But ...
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Working with photos in ElementaryOS
When searching for Gwenview I came across Eye of Gnome (eog).
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome
It doesn't have as many editing tools, but it also doesn't have most of the issues I ran into with ...
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What is the shortcut key to rotate photos in Photos app
[ or ] but it only rotates the image right, so you need to press the key 3 times to rotate it to the left. Alt Gr 9 does the same thing. Ctrl [ or ] also rotates the image to the right. Ctrl Shift [ ...
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Photos missing crop, automatically improve, etc
This was a bug with Photos which has recently been fixed. This should be resolved the next time Photos gets a new release and receives an update.
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Photo's import function
Strangely enough, on my PC Photos doesn't auto-import anything when I connect my camera. At the same time I couldn't find a preference inside the app which could be responsible for that behavior, let ...
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What are the keyboard shortcuts in Photos?
The ones I could find so far:
Ctrl + A Select all
Ctrl + I Import from folder
Ctrl + S New smart album
Ctrl + F Search
Return View photo
Function keys:
F9 Toggle showing sidebar (left panel)
F10 ...
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Loki not showing files from iPhone iOS 11.2.1
unfortunately there's no way to mount iOS devices on Linux anymore for some time. At least not any that I'm aware of. I just use icloud/apple photos to access my images.
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Preview EXR or HDR images in Pantheon Files
I had a somewhat similar question before: File that handles raw thumbnails in Files, but I didn't get a useful answer.
I was considering a Sigma camera and I wanted the camera raw thumbnails in ...
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File Storage in Photos on elementary OS
It does not have a database file that it puts them in. If you import a picture it will create dated folders [2016-10-10] or you can drag the photo in to the pictures folder directly and it will load
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Is there a configuration file for Photos?
The stuff you're looking for would appear to live in...
~/.local/share/pantheon-photos
This directory contains a data directory, which contains 2 database files. Those 2 files appear to be in SQLite ...
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How do I sync my google photos using the photos app?
I am not aware of any built-in way of syncing however, I would give overgrive a look they've got a 14 day trial and its $4.99 for a license. Basically integrates Google Drive into your desktop and by ...
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Working with photos in ElementaryOS
Try Gwenview instead. It's available via Softwarecenter.
Change in Setup -> Applications -> Image Viewer
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Change metadata on several images at once
There are two good tools to edit meta-data of image-files:
exiftool and exiv2
exiftool:
You will find exif here: official site
It also has a graphical frontend: frontend for exif
exiv2:
This is ...
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Opening files without extensions fails in Photos
The same happens on my laptop.I think this is an issue with pantheon-photos which is caused by it checking by the file extension (not mime type) and there is nothing we can do about it except creating ...
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How to update photos in elementary OS Freya?
Photos is the "The elementary continuation of Shotwell", so I think it is advisable to stick with it. Besides that, shotwell 0.22 can be installed only on Ubuntu 14.10+ while freya is based on 14.04.
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How can I crop images?
You can use PImagizer to resize one by one, or use Converseen to resize many images.
You can install it by the command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-...
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