Thumbnails

Image viewer, editor, browser and organizer.

More information can be found at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/.

Features

• View images: PNG, JPEG, WEBP, SVG, JXL, HEIF, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, RAW.

• Edit images: scale, rotate and crop images, change contrast, brightness and saturation, as well as other color transformations.

• View and edit embedded metadata: EXIF, IPTC and XMP.

• File manager operations: copy, move, rename and delete files and folders, execute scripts on the selected files.

• Image specific tools: JPEG lossless transformations, image resize, format conversion, slideshow, setting an image as desktop background and others.

• Add comments and other metadata to images, organize images in catalogs and catalogs in libraries, search for images and save the result as a catalog.

Licensing

This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.

Dependencies

Mandatory libraries:

• glib >= 2.84
• gtk >= 4.18
• libpng
• zlib
• libjpeg
• exiv2: embedded metadata support
• lcms2: color profile support
• gsettings-desktop-schemas

Other optional libraries:

• libtiff: display and save TIFF images
• libraw: some support for RAW photos
• librsvg: display SVG images
• libwebp: display and save WebP images
• libjxl: display and save JPEG XL images
• libheif: display and save AVIF images
• libgif: display GIF animation
• gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-video: audio/video support
• colord: read the monitor color profile

Download

Source archives available at https://download.gnome.org/sources/gthumb/.

Clone the Git repository:

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb.git

Installation

meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir
sudo meson install -C builddir