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Sourcecode available

• blueMarine (http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/), MIT licensed, written in Java photo management application with workflow in mind
• digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/) — KDE application, open-source
• GThumb (http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/) — GPL'd
• imgSeek (http://imgseek.sourceforge.net/) — GPL'd, powerful match/query features based on the paper Fast Multiresolution Image Querying (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/salesin/abstracts.html)
• KPhotoAlbum (http://kphotoalbum.org/) — KDE photo album (previously called KimDaBa)
• MaPiVi (http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml) — "Open-source and cross-platform (UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows) picture manager / organizer written in Perl/Tk."
• Mission Photo (http://www.missioncode.org/photo/) — GPL'd photo management application written in PyGtk with basic categorizing, rating and exporting functions.
• PhotoMontage (http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/photomontage/) — Research paper and GPL'd implementation which can be used to combine family portraits to get everybody smiling, remove unsightly wires in nature shots, and more.

Closed Source

• Apple's Aperture (http://www.apple.com/aperture/) software. Direct links to quicktime videos:
  • RAW Processing (http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/Advanced_RAW_Processing_20051026.mov)
  • Compare/Select (http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/Compare_and_Select_Tools_20051026.mov)
  • Nondestructive Image Processing (http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/Non-Destructive_Image_Processing_20051026.mov)
  • Professional Photo Management (http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/Professional_Photo_Management_20051026.mov)
  • Versatile Printing and Publishing (http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/aperture/Versatile_Printing_and_Publishing_20051026.mov)
• Adobe Lightroom (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/)
• LightZone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/lightzone/), a proprietary photo editor with good support for Ansel Adams' Zone System. An unsupported version for Linux (http://sonic.net/~rat/lightcrafts/) is also available.
• Adobe's Photoshop Album (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html)
• Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/index.html) — Google product