Get a better image viewer and editor
Are you looking for a good tool to view – and perhaps edit – your images easily? While Shotwell might seem like an obvious choice, it’s more geared towards building a library of images rather than acting as a quick-and-easy image viewer. What you need is nomacs.
The tool bills itself as an “image viewer”, but that does it a major disservice. It’s an excellent choice for viewing single files, or the contents of folders, supporting a wide range of image formats (including Photoshop PSD and RAW image files from digital cameras), but it does so much more. You can edit a photo’s metadata for example, and correct problems with photos courtesy of nomacs’ Adjustments menu. It even throws in a few clever effects, including photo mosaic and tiny planet tools. All in all, it’s an excellent tool to add to your image-editing arsenal.
As always, nomacs is available through Ubuntu’s universal repos (and therefore the Software Centre), but you’re tied to an older version. For example, Ubuntu 20.04 users would be stuck with version 3.12. A better bet is to install it through flathub – assuming you have flatpak installed, simply issue the following command:
Press Y twice when prompted and wait to install all its required dependencies. Once complete, can be launched via the Gnome launcher. On your first run you’ll be prompted to select a language – only English is available, so simply click OK to find yourself at the main screen.
