How to Add Watermarks in batch to Your Photos in Linux - DigiKam

If you are a photographer who uses watermarks on your photos, you know that adding a watermark by hand on every image is a laborious and time consuming process. Instead of doing it one by one, it obviously is much faster add all your watermarks at once using a batch process. DigiKam probably has the easiest way of doing this in Linux.

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Best Software for Editing RAW photos in Linux

If you are a photographer who shoots in RAW, then chances are you have heard of and probably used Adobe Lightroom. If you use Linux however, Lightroom is not a viable option.

Some of the more popular RAW editors in Linux include UFRaw, RawTherapee, Darkroom and Raw Studio. I will briefly discuss each below so you can decide which program is best for you. Each of these programs can easily be installed through apt-get using a package manager (such as Synaptic).

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Organizing your photos in Linux

If you do any sort of photography or photo editing, you will need a photo manager to handle all your photos.

Linux offers quite a few different photo managers and editors. DigiKam, F-Spot and Shotwell are some of the more popular photo managers in Linux. Though these photo managers all have different positive features, the photo manager I prefer to use is a bit less traditional for Linux. It is Google's Picasa. This tutorial will discuss briefly how I organize my photos and why I use Picasa to do so.

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