Darktable, the free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.4.1 version one day ago. This is a minor release that focuses on bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as camera support changes and translation updates, but no new features. First, the new version fixed possible crashes in the situations, when mounting a camera from […]
Read MoreDarktable, the popular free open-source photography software and RAW developer, released new 5.0.1 version one day ago. This is a maintenance release that includes various bug-fixes, some performance improvements, and updates camera devices and profiles support. According to the Github releases page, the new 5.0.1 release improved performance of discarding history of selected images, added […]
Read MoreDarktable, the popular raw image processing software, released new 4.8.1 version few days ago. This is the first minor release for the current 4.8 release series, which contains only bug-fixes. The release fixed the issue that export without high quality sampling but with up-scaling activated, crash when using the -d imageio option, and image jump […]
Read MoreDarktable, the free open-source raw image processing software, released new 4.8.0 version this Friday! Darktable 4.8.0 introduced a few new modules. They include the color equalizer module, allowing to control hue, lightness, and/or saturation based on colors. There are as well new Enlarge Canvas module, allowing to add areas on top, bottom, left, and/or right […]
Read MoreThis tutorial shows how to enable .jxl file support for system image viewer, GIMP, and some other apps in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even Ubuntu 18.04. JPEG-XL is a new image format by JPEG committee. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, and includes features such as animation, alpha channels, layers, thumbnails, […]
Read MoregThumb image viewer and organizer released new 3.12.5 release this Sunday. It is a small release only contains translation updates and a few bug-fixes. Bug fixes in the release include: When the ‘Store metadata inside files if possible’ option is active, comment a picture will delete its Color Profile tag. Build issue with libjxl 0.9 for […]
Read MoreWant to open (or export to) .jxl files? Here’s how to enable the image format support in Ubuntu and Debian. JPEG-XL (.jxl) is a royalty-free raster-graphics image format supports both lossy and lossless compression. It includes features such as animation, alpha channels, layers, thumbnails, and has better compression efficiency (60% improvement) comparing to JPEG. GNOME […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install the latest version of libheif library, for better HEIF and AVIF image formats support, in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Libheif is a popular free open-source library for encoding and decoding HEIF and AVIF. Which, also has partial support for JPEG-in-HEIF, JPEG2000, uncompressed (ISO/IEC 23001-17:2023) capabilities. It […]
Read MoreDarkable, the popular photography app and raw developer, released new major 4.6.0 version a day ago! The new release introduced auto-save feature for editing history. By default, it save changes every 10 seconds. User can go to ‘Preferences -> storage‘ to change the time interval, or set it to 0 to disable it. Darktable […]
Read MoredigiKam, KDE’s photo management software, released version 8.2.0 this Sunday. The new release includes most recent Libraw library, updates runtime libraries to Qt 5.15.11, KDE frameworks 5.110, Exiftool 12.70, and Exiv2 28.1. For Windows user, digiKam now has new Windows installer compiled under Windows with VCPKG tool-chain and based on Qt6 and KF6 frameworks. […]
Read MoreLooking for app to convert your photo images into other formats? Try Switcheroo. For batch image processing, I’d recommend to use Converseen. However, stupid simple applications are always good choices for beginners. And, Switcheroo is one stupid simple app for converting photo images, while having modern look and feel in today’s Linux desktop. With it, […]
Read MoreShotwell photo viewer and organizer released new 0.32.3 version a day ago with minor updates. The release came with some bug-fixes and minor changes, they include: Fix asking twice on closing viewer with modified image Do not try to reload photo on shutdown Do not abort if new thumbnail size does not exist Open fullscreen […]
Read MoredigiKam, the popular KDE photo management software, released new major 8.0.0 version! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. digiKam 8.0.0 is a big release after two year of development. It features new online documentation that is well written with plenty of screenshots and screencasts. An EPUB is also […]
Read MoreDarktable, the free open-source photography application and raw developer, released version 4.2.1 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 22.10. Darktable 4.2.1 is a new point release. There’s no big features but minor changes. It now uses magic bytes to identify JPEG files, so even JPEG […]
Read MoreConverseen image converter announced 0.9.10.0 release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Converseen is a free and open-source tool for converting or resizing a large quantity of photo images to another format with a few mouse clicks. The new 0.9.10.0 release redesigned the Images Settings dialog. Previously, it automatically […]
Read MoreGot photo images but not clear enough? Or you want to convert them into 4K resolution without losing quality? This app can help! It’s upscayl, a free and open-source app for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It uses AI modules to upscale single or batch of photo images into 7680×5120 (or double resolution 15360×10240). Supported AI […]
Read MoreDarkable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 4.2.0 release a day ago. Darktable 4.2.0 is a big release with following changes: New Sigmoid display transform module Two new algorithms in the highlight reconstruction module: “inpaint opposed” and “segmentation based”. Possible to preview the effect of a user-generated style on an […]
Read MoreThe Hugin panorama photo stitcher finally announced the 2022.0.0 release! Ubuntu PPA updated for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 22.10. One year per release! The 2022 release is finally here, though there’s not so many changes! Add simple edge fill option to fill black edges in panorama with homogenous color. Simplified the […]
Read MoreRawTherapee, the free open-source raw image converter and digital photo processor, released version 5.9 recently after more than 2 years of development. RawTherapee 5.9 features new “Spot Removing Tool” under Details tab for removing dust specks and small objects; Local Adjustments tool under Local tab for performing a wide range of operations on an area […]
Read MoreHugin, the popular free and open-source panorama photo stitcher application, now is in beta stage for the upcoming 2022 version. Changes in this release according to the launchpad milestone include: Add simple edge fill option to fill black edges in panorama with homogenous color. Simplified the assistant page with only the necessary GUI controls to […]
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