RAW Photo Editing - Darktable Review/Tutorial

As I have continued to play with RAW images, and have been continually looking for the best software. Previously I had mentioned that RawTherapee was my favorite RAW editor. Looks like it has been bested by Darktable. Darktable is amazing! I have done a video tutorial/review as well as listed some pros and cons.

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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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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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How to Edit RAW Photos in Linux Using RawTherapee

After having tried many different RAW editors in Linux, I came to the conclusion that RawTherapee is my favorite. RawTherapee has many great features. In effort to show some of what RawTherapee can do, I created this video tutorial:

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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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