Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.0 Released, 12.5x Times Faster Than Shotwell

| Date: May 01, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: digital photos, linux, rapid photo downloader, ubuntu

Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.0

Rapid Photo Downloader is an application for downloading photos from digital cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.

Download And Rename Photos/Videos From Digital Cameras Using Rapid Photo Downloader [Version 0.2.0 Released]

| Date: May 31, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: digital photos, linux, ubuntu

rapid photo downloader

Rapid Photo Downloader is an application for downloading photos from digital cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices. It can download from multiple devices in the same time so for example if your camera has two card slots, Rapid Photo Downloader can transfer the photos from both of them in the same time.

Download Digikam 1.0 Final .deb For Ubuntu Karmic Koala

| Date: December 26, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: digikam, digital photos, linux, photo editor, ubuntu

digikam 1.0 ubuntu karmic

DigiKam 1.0 was recently released and it features lot of new features and improvements (see the full list, here).

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.

DigiKam 1.0 final is currently only available in source files or pre-compiled with KDE-Windows installer, but there are some .deb files available for Ubuntu Karmic you can install if you can't wait to take the new DigiKam 1.0 final for a spin (that's right, the final DigiKam 1.0 isn't even available yet in the Kubuntu Beta PPA):

Shotwell: New Open Source Photo Organizer for Gnome [Linux]

| Date: November 04, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: digital photos, gnome, linux, shotwell, software, ubuntu

shotwellShotwell is a relatively new open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It's purpose is to allow you to easily organize your digital camera photos (basic editing included).

Shotwell features:

  • import photos from any digital camera supported by gPhoto
  • automatically organize events containing photos taken at the same time
  • non-destructive editing allows altering photos without ruining originals or using disk space for each copy
  • one-click auto-enhancement
  • rotate, mirror, and crop photos
  • reduce red-eye and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of your photos
  • export photos as they are or by specifying dimensions and JPEG quality to reduce size
  • edit any photo, even if it's not imported to the Shotwell library


Adobe Lightroom 3 Available for Beta Testing For Free

| Date: October 28, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: adobe, adobe lightroom 3, digital photos, macosx, photo editor, software, windows

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Adobe lets you download and use the recently released Adobe Lightroom 3 public beta, for FREE! There is however a catch. You can download the beta and use it until the product expires. The current Lightroom 3 public beta will expire on April 30, 2010.

Adobe Lightroom 3 is a digital darkroom and efficient assistant designed for serious amateur and prefessional photographers. With Lightroom, you can organize, enhance, and showcase your images all from one fast and nimble application that’s available on Macintosh and Windows platforms.

For more details on the new functionality in the Lightroom 3 beta you can watch three short videos about what's new.

RAW Converter and Digital Photo Processing Software: Raw Therapee [Free, Multi-Platform]

| Date: September 19, 2009 | View Comments | Tags: converter, digital photos, linux, raw therapee, software, windows

Raw Therapee is a free, multi-platform alternative to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (RAW converter and digital photo processing software).

Raw Therapee

Key Features:

  • Selectable high performance demosaicing algorithms (EAHD and HPHD and VNG-4)
  • Using DCRaw 8.82/1.398 for decoding RAW images
  • Image post processing in 16 bit / channel mode
  • ICC based color management
  • File browsing with thumbnails
  • Localization supported (utf8 language file): already included languages are: czech, deutsch, english, espanol, italian, latvian, magyar, nederlands, polish, russian, slovak, swedish
Output options:
  • Supported file formats:
    • JPEG (8 bit), PNG (8 or 16 bit), TIFF (8 or 16 bit)
  • Image ouput size could be set
  • EXIF data is preserved in JPEG output (except crw files)
  • Output directory and automatic file naming highly customizable
And many more.

Download RAW Therapee (Windows, Linux: both 32 and 64 bit)


How to install RAW Therapee in Linux:


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