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If you own a digital camera, you certainly have a lot of photos on your hard-disk. There is a lot of things that one usually needs to do on these photos, from transfer to selection, editing and storage. The goal of Älg is to provide a single software from which to do all of these operations.

Of course, Älg does not aim (and couldn't anyway) at replacing all the excellent softwares that already perform a single task, like ufraw, The Gimp or exiftool, but rather provide an efficient way to use them.

It is important to realize that those are planned features which, for most of them, have not yet been implemented. See the ChangeLog to have an idea of where Älg currently is.

• Metadatas: all the metadata information (like TODO, rating, level of completion, etc...), will be stored in a single file and will be exportable to EXIF.
• Slideshow: the core of the program shows a slideshow of your photos, with all actions possible through keyboard shortcuts. The use of SDL as main library allows a very light and fast user interface.
• Sorting: it will be possible to sort the photos in a directory with many different criterions, including EXIF. Manual sorting and exchange of two photos is also planned.
• Mass renaming: to avoid having thousands of photos with suggestive names like dsc_0765.jpg, Älg will propose to rename all or part of the photos using a general scheme which will include the metadata.
• Storage: Älg uses a powerful directory structure to record all the different stages in the photo evolution. After all the work has been performed in a directory, it should just be stored as-is or in a slimmed-down version and thus be easy to backup and search.
• Incremental saves: when you are working on a photo, it is often a good thing to record the different stages of editing, thus being able to come back if something did not turn out well. With this feature turned on, each time you will save a new version of a photo, it will be automatically stored with a new name in your work directory. Of course, when finished, everything can be deleted.

If you have ideas of features that would be useful, just contact us on alg-dev.

Tarballs are available from the download area.

Älg is also available in Gentoo's portage tree (as media-gfx/alg-0.0.1.ebuild) and will possibly go in Debian too.

The Älg project homepage gives access to most resources, including:

• The SVN repository may be checked out and browsed online. It contains the latest (possibly unstable) development version.
• A daily snapshots is automatically uploaded by Gna! here.

Many thanks to Gna! for all these resources.

Please report any bug or wish on the project homepage or by mail to alg-user AT gna.org.