pho is a lightweight image viewer designed for rapidly reviewing collections of photographs.
The keyboard-oriented interface lets you move through images, record rotations, mark unwanted photographs for deletion, add numbered tags and attach comments without repeatedly reaching for the mouse.
There are also modes intended for full-screen presentations, slideshows and projector use.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Reads image formats supported by gdk-pixbuf.
- Automatically scales images to fit the screen when necessary.
- Provides keyboard navigation between images.
- Can rotate an image clockwise for viewing.
- Can rotate an image anticlockwise for viewing.
- Can rotate an image by 180 degrees for viewing.
- Remembers the last displayed rotation for each image.
- Reports images which need to be rotated when pho exits.
- Can mark images for deletion.
- Requires confirmation before deleting a marked image.
- Displays image information including EXIF data.
- Displays JPEG comments where present.
- Supports numbered image tags.
- Prints tagged image lists when the application exits.
- Supports Keywords mode for categorising images.
- Supports up to 31 numbered categories.
- Allows a unique comment to be attached to each image.
- Provides full-size viewing.
- Provides full-screen viewing.
- Supports zooming in.
- Supports zooming out.
- Provides slideshow mode.
- Allows the slideshow interval to be specified.
- Provides presentation mode.
- Provides projector mode.
- Can replace or extend the current file list through a file selector.
- Can launch an external image-editing command.
Website: shallowsky.com/software/pho
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Developer: Akkana Peck
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
pho is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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