One of the many reasons I love Google

This is a picture of my bathroom here in China. Nothing special really (other than the fact that I moved into a really nasty apartment with a nasty bathroom). Nothing special I thought.
This is why Google is so cool.

I recently upgraded Picasa to the newest version. I decided to go through and use Picasa to organize some of my contacts with faces. It was when I was doing this that Picasa brought up this photo for me to tag. My initial response was that Picasa was crazy, but after looking at the smaller thumbnail, I realized it totally does look like a face.

I love you Google. 

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Portrait Photography in Linux - An Extensive Guide

Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools available for professional photography.

While most photography software is designed to run on Windows or Macs, there are a lot of great software that runs on Linux. The purpose of this guide is to show what tools are available to someone wanting to do photography using only Linux tools.

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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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