Photo viewer?

**Yezinki** · January 18th, 2013

Which is the most compatible Photo Viewer & Photo Editor for Ubuntu & how do I install it?

Thanks.

**ajgreeny** · January 18th, 2013

Compatible with what?

All the available applications will do what you want with no problem. However, they all manage the photos differently so you will have to study them all and make your own decision about which is best for you.

I've looked at most of them over time, but like digikam best, and even though it is a KDE application, I use it on my gnome Ubuntu, along with one or two other KDE apps (k3b and kmymoney).

**cressrt** · January 18th, 2013

GIMP is my favourite.

**Zill** · January 19th, 2013

Originally Posted by Yezinki

...how do I install it?

Strangely, in exactly the same way as you have been advised in your earlier threads requesting information on how to install Linux software.

Originally Posted by Yezinki

How does one install/uninstall apps in Ubuntu.
Originally Posted by Yezinki

...How does one install BlueFish?

**Frogs Hair** · January 19th, 2013

Shotwell is the photo viewer/manage installed by default . If you want more advanced features for editing Gimp is a good choice as stated above. F-Spot was default manager/viewer prior to Shotwell and is in the software center.

**offgridguy** · January 19th, 2013

Some people like Gwenview.

**Pletched** · January 19th, 2013

My preferred graphics viewer is gqview and editor GIMP.

Just use the software centre! It's in Menu/Apps/Software Centre or UnityThing/Search/Software Centre.

**PhilGil** · January 19th, 2013

For quick photo viewing the default viewer (eog) is fine.
For viewing and culling large numbers of images I like geeqie.
I use DigiKam for tagging and organization.
RawTherapee is my RAW converter of choice.
And (of course) GIMP for post processing.