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Basic photo editing with Darktable

Basic photo editing with Darktable

When I was starting in the world of amateur digital photography, I learned about 2 software programs that everybody was using: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. In the Free and Open Source world, there are 2 amazing alternatives: GIMP and Darktable. GIMP is aimed at destructive (the image is changed when saved) photo editing. It can be used to change photos in many ways, including cutting things out of the picture or pasting things into the picture. Darktable is aimed…

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How to create great panorama photos with Hugin

How to create great panorama photos with Hugin

If you search online for “Best Panorama Stitching software 2018”, chances are very high that you find an article that mentions Hugin (1, 2). The reason is that this is one of the best programs to stitch photos for Linux, MacOS and Windows. And it is free and open source! The criticism is that its aimed at professional users and that it can be a bit overwhelming for new users. This article will provide you with a rundown on how…

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Installing Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.9 on openSUSE Leap 15

Installing Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.9 on openSUSE Leap 15

Have you noticed? After installing Rapid Photo Downloader from the openSUSE repositories, it doesn’t launch. As indicated in an earlier blog post, this program is really great to download your photo’s into the right folders in one go. Version 0.9.9 is a big overhaul for this application. If you want to use it right now, you need to install it using these instructions. Installation The first thing to do is to install, then remove Rapid Photo Downloader using YaST. Why…

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Discovering the Gwenview photo viewer

Discovering the Gwenview photo viewer

The Gwenview photo viewer is a great application and one of the reasons why I never looked back when I switched from Windows (Vista) to openSUSE (11.1). The application is installed by default when you install openSUSE with the KDE plasma desktop environment. But even if you have the GNOME desktop environment installed, I would recommend that you to install Gwenview. In my opinion, it is superior to the GNOME image viewer application. Default applications often get overlooked. We just…

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A quicker way to download photos on openSUSE

A quicker way to download photos on openSUSE

A very common way to download your photos on your openSUSE desktop is to use the file browser. This might be Dolphin (KDE) or Files/Nautilus (Gnome). First thing you do is create the new folders that you need for your photos. You plug-in the SD card or connect your camera via USB cable. And then you drag the photo files to the location(s) of your choosing. But there is a smarter and quicker way and its called Rapid Photo Downloader….

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