Tuesday, October 6, 2015

PhotoFlow 0.1.4 Out Now, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS / Fedora 22


Install PhotoFlow 0.1.4 on  Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Fedora 22, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

PhotoFlow is in a early development stage. The present version allows to open an image file and apply basic editing filters via non-destructive adjustment layers. The individual layers can be activated and de-activated using the radio buttons on the right of the image. Moreover, the layers structure can be saved to disk and re-opened again via the command line.

Main features:
  • Fully non-destructive, layer-based photo editing workflow with realtime preview of the final image
  • Support for 8-bits and 16-bits integer as well as 32-bits and 64-bits floating point precision, selectable at runtime and on a per-image basis
  • Plugin-based architecture: new tools can be implemented as separate modules that are loaded at runtime
  • Allows to load and edit images of arbitrary size, thanks to the underlying rendering engine based on the VIPS library
  • Fully color managed workflow: user-defined input, work and output profiles, soft-proofing, etc…
  • Support for layer grouping and layer masks
  • Support for common photo editing tools: levels, curves, brightness-contrast control, blurring, sharpening, cropping, resizing, colorspace conversions, etc…, all implemented in the form of image layers
  • User-friendly interface to develop new tools and image filters as external plugins

Roadmap and development plans

The following list shows what features are currently planned or being implemented, in a kind of priority order:
  • Implement colorpsace conversions based on ICC profiles (partly implemented already)
  • Allow re-ordering of existing layers via drag&drop
  • Complete the list of supported blending modes

Install PhotoFlow 0.1.4 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS / Fedora 22

To Install/Update PhotoFlow 0.1.4 via PPA on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install photoflow

Optional, to remove photoflow, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove photoflow

For Fedora 22, Photoflow is available via the COPR repositories, so you need to install the needed dnf plugin, enable the photoflow repository and install the package:
$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf copr enable oleastre/PhotoFlow
$ sudo dnf install photoflow
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. 

You can download the sample files used in the tutorials from here. Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.
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