![]() ![]() Location: Street level looking north up the strip on Las Vegas Boulevard just north of Tropicana Boulevard. "Las Vegas: A City That Never Sleeps", 2002 (If any unsaved changes were made, we will be prompted to save those changes before closing, or, at our option, be able to discard changes made.)īelow is the actual photograph we shall be using for this article on showfoto. The toolbar replicates many functions found on the main menu in showfoto.Īs we work with Showfoto, you will be able to save new versions of the photograph, work on a copy of the original, export to other image formats, and when we are done, close the editor. That panel can also be used to access the properties, metadata, color profiles, geographic tags and captions, as well as managing versions of the photograph you are working on. The right panel starts out with buttons for commonly used tools used in editing photographs. Showfoto is a fully functional image editor that makes easy work of editing photographs. To launch showfoto, click on the button labeled Image Editor or simply press the F4 key. The photograph I have highlighted (and its greyscale version on the left) is a sample of what I would like to work with using showfoto as the image editor. Some of these photographs have been rescanned with the Epson Stylus NX-415 connected to my current laptop, and as we can see in the third row, the rescans came out much better than the original (600dpi on the rescans vs 150dpi on the original scans). The photographs that have "LEAD Technologies" tagged are those that were scanned in 2003 with a HP ScanJet 1110 (a parallel port model) connected to a 75Mhz Pentium machine I rebuilt from an old Compaq which dual booted between MEPIS and Win95 (what I was running at that time). Here, we have DigiKam launched and I have selected a folder containing photographs I took in Las Vegas back in 2002. While it is installable and launchable by itself, it is best used when launched from DigiKam, as the editor was designed for and integrates well with DigiKam. If you can't remember where an image is stored, but do know what it looks like, you can always try the fuzzy search – draw your best shot at the photo and Digikam will try to match it.As promised, this article is about DigiKam's image editor called showfoto. ![]() It might not be the most simple software to use – many of its best features take some searching for – but it has so many tools that it's difficult to make them all easy to get to. Newer releases have had some stability issues, but sadly this is more to do with the underlying KDE libraries being flaky. Website: A packed list of features and great output quality ranks this with the best It does tend to run more reliably on some distros, such as SUSE. ![]() ![]() KPhotoAlbum: Organise your shots and export to practically anywhere KPhotoAlbum doesn't really pretend to be anything much more than an organising and viewing tool, and sits in alliance with Digikam on the KDE side of the fence. In fact, a lot of work has been done on the KDE graphics libraries to make them share nicely, much to the benefit of KPhotoAlbum in terms of its Exif data support, for example. One of the first downers about KPhotoAlbum is that it immediately asks you where you want to store all your images. The software will only index a single directory, so all your images will have to live in the same place.Īlso, there's no real notion of importing files from a camera or card reader – if you want them in your album, you must copy them yourself. In organisational terms, once the images have been added, there's a lot to be said for KPhotoAlbum. It has a timeline device similar to F-Spot, and can organise images based on tags or properties. It's quick and easy to make slideshows too. KPhotoAlbum will read RAW files, via the omnipresent dcraw utility, but you can tell it would rather not – there's even an option to ignore RAW files if a similarly-named JPEG image is present. ![]()
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