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FOSS.IN 2008 shots

kd — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:01:35 +0000

So, finally managed to upload most of the shots taken at foss.in 2008. View them here. Few more may come later. Mostly edited in Gimp and managed in digikam. Enjoy :)

Attack of the clones

kd — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:31:17 +0000

I followed this. We need video tutorials on digikam like these.

How to install latest Amarok and digikam in Fedora 9

kd — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:22:34 +0000

So if you are looking for a way to install latest Amarok or digikam on your system here is a simple solution.

First grab this file and put it on your /etc/yum.repos.d/ Then just

#yum --enablerepo=kde-unstable install amarok digikam

Thanks to Kevin and rdieter for the information.

A journey to showfoto

kd — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:43:39 +0000

I use gimp as the main post process tool for my photographs. Which is anyway a very powerful tool. But most of the options available there are not required for me. Looked for another application which is lighter and powerful at the same time. I tried showfoto long back, never liked the UI that time. Thought of giving another try tonight.

I have a 0.10.0-beta5 installed in my F-9 system (the package came from rawhide though). After starting the application default options(buttons to click) look much lesser, cooler for eyes :)

I opened my raw image in it, took some time but came finally(Is there any chance to make it a bit faster ?). The first thing I tried was to adjust the level, found the desired dialogue after two clicks. All other basic required options are there in the color menu entry including brightness/saturation/channel mixer.
Btw, F10 and F11 buttons will help you to see under and over exposed places in the shot.

Here is a snap edited in showfoto.

You can find my other shots here.

It seems I can now use it for post processing, which also means I am back to digikam once agian :)