digiKam is a truly versatile and powerful application for managing and tweaking photos, but it’s not the only photographic tool around. In fact, there are a few other nifty open source utilities that can make great additions to your photographic toolbox. Here are a couple.
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Two ways to Edit Multiple Photos with digiKam
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digiKam is a powerful and complete photo management tool from KDE. Among its many features is the ability to run batch processes, thanks to the Kipi plugin set. With a few simple clicks, users can manipulate multiple photos simultaneously, without having to remember long command line strings or taking countless hours to edit each file.
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digiKam 1.0.0 Released - Manage Photos Like a Professional
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The new version of free and open source photo management app brings lots of new features. For example: metadata tags filtering can be customized, metadata templates, batch queue manager, first run assistant, database statistics dialog, support for wavelets image file format PGF, OpenStreetMap support in Geolocation panels, new color management...
Read more »'Frankencamera': A Giant Leap For Digital Photos?
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It's big. It's ugly. It's made from recycled parts, and uses a Linux operating system.
Read more »New Open-source Camera Could Revolutionize Photography
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Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.
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GIMP 2.6 released
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GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view. It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints, and a tentative integration of GEGL, the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP.
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Photography and ubuntu?
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Photography is more of an addiction than a hobby. It's all about finding the beauty in anything. A glass of water may seem beautiful, or even a leaf lying on green grass. It's all about how we shape it and capture it, and finally, how we set it as our ubuntu wallpaper!
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Cook your RAW photos into JPEG with Linux
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Shooting in RAW format is great for the photography buff. However, when it is time to share with others, post on your photo gallery, or print at the local photo printing shop, you want something more portable. Here we'll look at converting RAW photos (specifically Canon's CRW format) into JPEGs using a batch command-line approach in BASH.
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From the Camera to the Web with Konqueror
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There are plenty of ways to transfer photos from your digital camera to the World Wide Web. Here's how you can take your photos straight from your camera to your website with Konqueror, the KDE desktop's web browser and file manager.
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Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.
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