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jhead vs Shotwell

A side-by-side look at jhead and Shotwell. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

jhead

jhead

Photos & Graphics

jhead is a command line utility for managing metadata in JPEG photos. It can view, edit, delete, and manipulate EXIF, IPTC, and other metadata tags from JPEG files without recompressing the image.

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Shotwell

Shotwell

Photos & Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer and editor for Linux. It has basic photo editing tools and allows organizing images into events and tags. Shotwell has features to import photos from cameras and export to sharing sites.

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