2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing. 3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album.
What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE?
The thing that I like the most about the two apps Paintshop 7 and Album Express are their tremendous ease of use and how quickly I can get this done.
For browsing, try Pixie. Pixie will do rotation and some effects too, but it looses EXIF data which may bother you (it certainly bothers me!). For rotating and resizing I use the ImageMagick tools - mogrifiy being the utility you really need. Cropping is hard, if not impossible to automate, so Gimp would be your best bet there. There appear to be loads of tools in the free software community which will do HTML albums, including Pixie. Whether they do what you actually want is another matter. I couldn't find anything to my linking, so I wrote my own Perl script. It's not fancy, and it only does what *I* want it to do, but you're welcome to use it and/or extend it if you like: http://derekfountain.webhop.org/hacks/web_gallery/ -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003