How to install Converseen on Ubuntu 24.04

 Converseen is a free  cross-platform batch image processor for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and other  operating systems. It allows you to convert, resize, rotate, and flip an infinite number of images with a single mouse click. Moreover, Converseen can convert an entire PDF document into a set of images with your preferred characteristics. You can choose from over 100+ formats, set the size, resolution, and the filename.

 

What can I do with Converseen?

• Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
• Resize one or multiple images.
• Compress images for your web pages.
• Rotate and flip images.

How to install Krita 4.1.1 released on Ubuntu 18.04

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

    Krita 4.1 is the second feature release in the Krita 4 series and is released only three months after 4.0. But there is still a heap of interesting new things and improvements to check out!

Krita 4.1.1 Changelog:

• Added context menu (right click) options for transform tool. This makes it easier to change your transform type between perspective, free, warp, etc.
• Added context menu (right click) options for crop. This makes it easier to use without needing the tool options open.
• New Cursor option. Force brush outline to always be shown at 100%
• HEIF file format can now be opened and saved to. Thanks to a patch by Dirk Farin. Note that this is not enabled in the default builds because the libraries needed to build the import/export filter are very new.
• Ask the user what DPI they want their SVG images imported with
• Multibrush tool now accepts decimals for the angle
• Fixes to links for new documentation site

How to Install Shutter 0.94.2 Released with Some Bug Fixes on Ubuntu 18.04

   Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.

Shutter 0.94.2 changelog : 

• Remove ITmages, Minus, TwitPic upload plugins since the services down.
• Fix error in vygme plugin
• Add support for Gyazo uploads
• Fix insecure perl system calls
• Use reverse-DNS style AppStream ID

How to install Darktable 2.2.5 on Ubuntu 17.10

     Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

Darktable 2.2.5 Changelog:
New features:

•     When appending EXIF data to an exported image, do not fail if reading of EXIF from the original file fails
•     Support XYZ as proofing profile
•     Clear DerivedFrom from XMP before writing it
•     bauhaus: when using soft bounds, keep slider step constant

How to Install GIMP 2.9.8 (2.9.9) Release on Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10

   GIMP 2.9.8 (GNU Image Manipulation Program) the most recent release, is a free cross-platform image editor that runs on various OSes which includes Linux, OS X, Windows etc. With GIMP, you can open and save images to most file formats and it offers many other useful features, plus the scope to add more using its plug-in system.

GIMP 2.9.8 Changelog:
Core:

• The default brush is now "Hardness 050".
• Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler information.
• Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore.
• Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals, which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in preferences.

How to install Shotwell 0.26.4 released on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04

    Shotwell 0.26.4 is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to straighten, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto "enhance" option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image.

Shotwell 0.26.4 Changelog

• Fix buld rules for appstream files
• Fix import progress bar when importing RAW files
• Fix renaming of backing photos when renaming to lower case on import
• Fix removing the RAW file when deleting photos and there is no Trash
• Fix duplicate detection for Canon imports

How to install Krita 3.3.2 released on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.10

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

Krita 3.3.2 Changelog:
fixes two important regressions:

• Krita 3.3.1 would read brush presets with textures incorrectly. This is now fixed.
• Windows 1709 broke wintab and Windows Ink tablet handling in various ways; we worked around that and it works again in this version of Krita.

How to install XnView MP 0.88 on Ubuntu 17.10

XnView is an image organizer and general-purpose file manager used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing raster images, as well as general purpose file management. It comes with built-in hex inspection, batch renaming and screen capture tools. It is licensed as freeware for private, educational and non-profit uses. For other uses, it is licensed as commercial software.

XnView MP 0.88 Changlog:

• [New] More used formats at the top in save dialog
• [New] Policy entries in xnview.ini
• [New] Exposure adjsutement in edit mode
• [New] FLIF 0.3

How to install Synfig Studio 1.2.1 : A Powerful Animation Software on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04

   Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer people and resources.

Synfig Studio 1.2.1 Changelog:

• Fixed rendering of text with international characters on Windows.
• Fixed algorithm of Fast Gaussian Blur, eliminating the random artifacts.
• Fixed incorrect rendering of Twirl Layer and Noise Distortion Layer.

How to install Fotoxx 17.08.3 Photo Editor on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

   Fotoxx is a free Linux program for editing photos or other images and managing a large collection. Image directories (folders) can be viewed as a scrolling gallery of thumbnail images. Navigating directories and subdirectories is simple and fast. Click on a thumbnail for a full window view of the image. The image can be zoomed, panned and scrolled using the mouse. Gallery thumbnails can vary from small to huge. Popup windows can be used to view multiple images at any scale. Galleries are also used to display image search results and albums.

Fotoxx 17.08.3 Changelog: 

• Bugfix: user settings for video file types were not being saved. 
• Bugfix: add missing popup diagnostic for libraw (RAW file) errors. Bugfix: check for hugin, not hugin-executor (recent change? distro diversity?).

How to install Krita 3.3.1 released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

Krita 3.3.1 Changelog:

• Krita would crash if you would restart Krita after closing Krita with the reference images docker set to floating
• Krita 3.3.0 could not read .kra backup files or .kra files that were unzipped, then zipped up manually.
• Fix a crash when creating a swap file on OSX

How to Install Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Upgraded Java 3D on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.0 and 17.10

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.  The latest Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 was released on September 20, 2017 Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6.

Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Changelog:

• Fixed photo creation at the two lowest quality levels when two monitors are used.
• Fixed how lights in groups are rendered at the two best quality levels in the photo creation tool.
• Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6 (Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.13), leaving the JAR Executable as the only version able to run Sweet Home 3D under Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and/or PowerPC.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

How to Install RawTherapee 5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10

    RawTherapee is a powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing program, released under the GNU General Public License Version 3 and written in C++ using a GTK+ front-end. It uses a patched version of dcraw for reading raw files, with an in-house solution which adds the highest quality support for certain camera models unsupported by dcraw and enhances the accuracy of certain raw files already supported by dcraw. It is notable for the advanced control it gives the user over the demosaicing and development process.

 New Features in RawTherapee 5.3:

•   CIECAM02 enhanced with control over the scene and viewing conditions.
•   CIECAM02-friendly "Average Surround" color theme and L* middle gray preview background color, takes into account human vision and color appearance with regard to the surrounding color.
•   Manually save the collapsed/expanded state of tools.

How to Install GIMP 2.9.6 Release on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   GIMP 2.9.6 (GNU Image Manipulation Program) the most recent release, is a free cross-platform image editor that runs on various OSes which includes Linux, OS X, Windows etc. With GIMP, you can open and save images to most file formats and it offers many other useful features, plus the scope to add more using its plug-in system.

All platforms will benefit from a change to the image window hierarchy in single window mode, which improves painting performance when certain GTK+ themes are used.


GIMP 2.9.6 Changelog:
Core:

• Make it possible to use multithreading in GEGL and raise max amount of threads to 64. Given how unstable this feature is, any value above 1 should be currently treated as a step inside an industrial microwave oven with the on/off switch on the outside.
• New clipboard implementation allows copying/pasting layers and layer groups.

How to install Krita 3.2.0 released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

•     concept art
•     texture and matte painters
•     illustrations and comics

Krita 3.2.0 Changelog:

• Don’t reset the LUT docker when moving the Krita window between moitors
• Correctly initialize the exposure display filter in the LUT docker
• Add the missing pan tool a ction
• Improve the “Normal” blending mode performance by 30% (first patch for Krita by Daria Scherbatyuk!)

How to install Fotoxx 17.08.2 Photo Editor on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   Fotoxx is a free Linux program for editing photos or other images and managing a large collection. Image directories (folders) can be viewed as a scrolling gallery of thumbnail images. Navigating directories and subdirectories is simple and fast. Click on a thumbnail for a full window view of the image. The image can be zoomed, panned and scrolled using the mouse. Gallery thumbnails can vary from small to huge. Popup windows can be used to view multiple images at any scale. Galleries are also used to display image search results and albums.

Fotoxx 17.08.2 Changelog:
Technical Changes

• Thumbnails were enlarged to 512 pixels for faster galleries when using large thumbnails. To implement, delete your present thumbnails so that Fotoxx will generate new thumbnails.
• Use of shell "cp" command was replaced with a copyfile() function, to make batch functions fail-safe against special characters in file names.

How to install Shotwell 0.26.3 released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

    Shotwell 0.26.3 is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to straighten, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto "enhance" option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image.

Shotwell 0.26.3 Changelog

• Fix missing XML escape in wallpaper.xml file
• Fix missing “Photos” menu content
• Fix missing “find” icon

How to Install Hugin 2017 on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & Higher

   Hugin is an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With it, you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

Hugin 2017 Changelog:
The version 2017.0 is mainly a bug fix release. The biggest fixes regard:

• Several fixes for working with HDR images (display in GUI, photometric optimizer, handling of under/over exposured pixels in merging code).
• Fixes handling of masks in cpfind when images needs remapping for cp finding.

How to Install digiKam 5.6.0 Released on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   digiKam is an easy to use and powerful digital photo management application, which makes importing, organizing and manipulating digital photos a "snap".  An easy to use interface is provided to connect to your digital camera, preview the images and download and/or delete them.

Following the 5th release 5.5.0 published in March 2017, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.6.0 of digiKam Software Collection. With this version the HTML gallery and the video slideshow tools are back, database shrinking (e.g. purging stale thumbnails) is also supported on MySQL,

Install jEsuSdA Color Palettes for GIMP, Inkscape on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   The present project is a personal collection of Color Palettes for use in free software programs such as Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus or Krita.

Features:

• Unify all palettes. Now both Gimp, Inkscape and Krita can use the same color palettes.
• Create a version of the Scribus color palette compatible with Gimp, Inkscape and Krita.
• Create a custom version of the Pantone color palette: PANTANO Coated, which can be used in Inkscape, Gimp and Krita.