While all Linux blogs are talking about new Gimp 2.4, I’m very happy with Picasa.
Yes, I know they have different purposes but Picasa does everything I need with my photos. It is intuitive, powerful, extremely easy to use, fast and nice.
You may say F-Spot is the OSS equivalent but I couldn’t spend more than 15 minutes using it before giving up.
Thanks to Picasa, my last trip photos are really shining, much more than previous Kuickshow+Gimp combination of tools, much faster too.
And did I mention they also provide a Linux version for Picasa ?
Picasa 2 works nice with Wine as well if you are interested. Picasa 2 has the added feature of uploading images to webalbums.
Perhaps you should take a look at digiKam. Picasa plucked my last nerve because I could never get it to do what I wanted. F-Spot I’ll agree isn’t even close yet. digiKam with the kipi plugins installed kicked Picasa all over the playground. I especially like the advanced crop tools.
http://www.digikam.org
http://www.kipi-plugins.org