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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

• 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

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install photoflow

$ sudo apt-get remove photoflow

$ 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.

DigiKam 4.9.0 released, Install/Update on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux

digiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance

Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.

What's new in digiKam 4.9.0:

This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress.

Install/Update DigiKam 4.9.0 on (K)Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy, Arch Linux, Mandriva, Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Gentoo Linux

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 install digiKam using pre-compiled version of digiKam. This is done by your distribution. A disadvantage is that in some cases the version provided by your distribution is not the latest stable version the digiKam team has released. The links given below will give you information about which version your distribution packages.

Distribution	Link to the list of digiKam packages	Command line to install
Kubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Ubuntu	here	apt-get install digikam
Debian	here and reason why the latest version of packages is not in testing can be found here	apt-get install digikam
Arch Linux	here	pacman -Sy digikam
Ark Linux	here	apt-get install digikam
Mandriva/Mageia Linux	here	urpmi digikam
SUSE Linux	here	yast -i digikam
Fedora Linux	here	yum install digikam
Gentoo Linux	here	emerge digikam

Blender 2.74 Out Now with New Tools, Add-Ons, and Dozens of Improvements

The Blender Foundation is proud to announce today, March 31, the immediate availability for download of the Blender 2.74 free, open-source 3D modelling software that is used by many professional designers to create stunning graphics and models for Hollywood movies.

Highlights of Blender 2.74 include Cycles Render improvements, support for Custom Normals, new Viewport features, an all-new “Cavity Mask” tool, several improvements to the Game engine and Grease pencil, a number of improvements to the hair dynamics and editing tools, as well as great memory consumption optimizations in Freestyle NPR stroke rendering.

In detail, we can mention that the Cycles Render component received several memory, noise, speed, and precision improvements, as well as a brand-new Pointiness attribute for the Geometry node, which can be used to control texture space of a single object by another.

Supports a wide range of image file types, animations and movies

Blender allows for photorealistic rendering, fast modelling, fast rigging, sculpting, fast UV unwrapping, amazing simulations, camera and object tracking, and much more. The application provides import and export support for various image file types, such as JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TIFF, TAGA, DPX, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, Cineon, and OpenEXR. In addition, it can import or export animations and movies to MPEG, AVI and Quicktime file formats, and 3D models for 3D Studio (3DS), X3D, STL, Autodesk (DXF), DirectX (x), Motion Capture (BVH), Lightwave (LWO), SVG, Filmbox (FBX), Stanford PLY, Wavefront (OBJ), VRML, VRML97, and COLLADA (DAE).




What is Blender ?

Blender is an open source application for creating professional 2D/3D graphics, models and animation on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The truth is that Blender is targeted at advanced users and enthusiasts who know what they are doing. However, new users can find comprehensive documentation and tutorials on the official website, which will help them to get started with Blender.

What's new in Blender 2.74:

• Cycles got a few optimizations, a new "Pointiness" attribute and objects can now use the texture maps from other objects, the Viewport is now able to display Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field, the Outliner was improved in quite some ways, it is now possible to edit normals, the Hair tools developed for the Gooseberry Project are now available (including improved hair dynamics, child hair modifiers and various interaction tools), texture painting can now be done using Cavity Masks, Freestyle memory consumption was greatly improved, the Grease Pencil rewrite from Blender 2.73 was continued to make more editing tools available, improvements for animation interaction and many more features which are worth checking out!

Tag ; Darktable 1.6.4 ppa ubuntu / Darktable 1.6.4 ppa linux mint / Darktable 1.6.4 ubuntu 14.10 / ubuntu 14.04 / ubuntu 15.04 / Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca / Linux Mint 17 Qiana / OSX / Fedora 20 / Fedora 21 / Fedora 22 / openSUSE 13.2 / openSUSE 13.1


Darktable is an open source application that provides both amateur and enthusiasts photographers with a virtual lighttable and darkroom that allows them to manage their digital negatives in a single and handy database. It has been designed from the ground up to be used for developing RAW images from digital cameras.


Key features include an astonishing graphical user interface designed for the modern computer user, support for importing single image files, folders, and scan for devices, ability to categorize images by numerous filters, such as ISO, color label, rights, creator, publisher, camera, date, time, title, lens, aperture, etc., as well as to access recently used collections.

In addition, the application lets users to view detailed information about an image, if available, such as lens, exposure, aperture, focal length, focus distance, ISO, model, maker, filmroll, image id, filename, version, full path, width, height, copyright, local copy, date, time, title, creator, latitude, and longitude.

It also features fully non-destructive editing, 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, GPU acceleration via OpenCL, built-in ICC profiles (sRGB, XYZ, linear RGB and Adobe RGB), zero-latency fullscreen mode, tethered shooting, flexible search functionality, powerful export system, and many translations.

The program is capable of importing a wide range of standard, RAW and HRD image formats, among which we can mention JPG, CR2, HDR, and PFM, and can export images to Picasa and Flickr, as well as to export to low dynamic range (JPEG, PNG, TIFF), linear high dynamic range (PFM, EXR) and 16-bit (PPM, TIFF) images.

What's new in darktable 1.6.4:

general improvements:

• major rawspeed update
• facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)
• first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl autoactivation if gpu is obviously slower than cpu
• lensfun cornercase fixes
• some mask cornercase fixes
• zonesystem now updates it's gui when number of zones changes
• spots iop updates
• ui_last/gui_language should work more reliably now
• internal lua updated from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (distro's typically use their own version of lua)
• gcc 5 should build now

new camera support:

• canon digital rebel (non european 300d)
• nikon d5500 (experimental)
• olympus e-m5 mark ii (experimental)
• Samsung NX500 (experimental)

white balance presets:

• sony a77 ii
• fujiflim x-e2
• olympus e-m5 mark ii

noise profiles:

• canon 7d mark ii

updated translations:

• german
• french
• russian
• danish
• catalan
• japanese
• dutch

How To Install Darktable 1.6.4 on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Mac OSX, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA :

• For stable releases add the Darktable Release PPA.
• If you are adventurous and are willing to deal with problems from time to time add the Darktable Unstable PPA. Don't use this PPA if you do time critical work with darktable!
• Follow the instructions on the Launchpad PPA page.
• Then search for "darktable" in the Software Center of Synaptic Package Manager and install it.
• You will find it under "Applications/Graphics/Darktable Photography Workflow Software"

If you want to have nice packages on debian you can rebuild the PPA sources for debian: Download "darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz" and "darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz" from one of the PPAs.

$ sudo apt-get install debhelper dpkg-dev fakeroot
$ sudo apt-get build-dep darktable
$ tar zxvf darktable_$VERSION.orig.tar.gz
$ cd darktable-$VERSION
$ tar zxvf ../darktable_$VERSION.debian.tar.gz
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

• Download the latest DMG disk image for darktable
• Mount the thing
• Pull the darktable icon into applications folder
• Good luck :)

# yum install darktable

If you want to build darktable from the source on Fedora, here are the build dependencies:

sudo yum install intltool atk-devel cairo-devel exiv2-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libgomp gtk2-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel lcms2-devel lensfun-devel libpng-devel libsq3-devel libstdc++-devel libxml2-devel OpenEXR-devel libcurl-devel libgphoto2-devel dbus-glib-devel libgnome-keyring-devel fop librsvg2-devel flickcurl-devel cmake libsoup-devel gcc-c++ colord-devel saxon libsecret-devel lua lua-devel GraphicsMagick openjpeg-devel json-glib-devel libwebp-devel SDL-devel

darktable is on the openSUSE repositories: openSUSE darktable packages.
And there is a repository for nightly builds.

$ pacman -S darktable

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Install/Update to PhotoQt 1.2.1 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22,
Fedora 21, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1

PhotoQt is a totally free, multiplatform and open source desktop application designed from the offset to act as a highly configurable, flexible and extremely fast/responsive image viewer software that boasts a modern and uncluttered graphical user interface implemented in Qt5.

The latest version available is PhotoQt 1.2.1, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes and fixes:

• Fix: Transitioning half-transparent images caused issues
• Fix: Wheel Sensitivity
• Fix: Store window geometry in proper folder
• Fix: Set default values to global variables
• Fix: Properly quit PhotoQt
• Fix: Check for which imagereader to use
• Fix: Treat symlinks to images as own image
• Add: Option to completely disable tray icon

PhotoQt 1.2.1 released, Install on Linux Mint and Ubuntu via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install photoqt

$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:zhonghuaren/Fedora_22/home:zhonghuaren.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:zhonghuaren.repo
$ sudo dnf install photoqt

$ sudo dnf remove photoqt

$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:zhonghuaren/Fedora_21/home:zhonghuaren.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/home:zhonghuaren.repo
$ sudo yum install photoqt

$ sudo yum remove photoqt