Two reasons to digitize photos is discussed: for a historical archive or for a personal collection.

Isn't it great, this pod episode is released on Hacker Public Radio. HPR has a now show every weekday Monday through Friday.

hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4

DigiKam 8.5.0 is released! Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.

Available for Windows, macOS and Linux. For Linux, I recommend to use the AppImage from the team, see their download page.

I use digiKam as my photo catalog manager and for other photo tasks. I also use some other photo tools, but digiKam is the center for my digital photo management.

digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.

A brief discussion about two methods of digitizing analog photos.

Knowledge sharing. Tune in the Hacker Public Radio podcast where I today have the honor to talk about my experience of digitizing photos.

hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4

How do you calibrate your monitor on Linux?

I use DisplayCAL, a GUI (and more) based on Argyll. And I use X11. Wayland appears troublesome for color management:

From Argyll I read:
"As a consequence there is little prospect of ArgyllCMS being able to support display calibration and profiling for Wayland.

So my current advice for people wanting to use a color managed display on Linux is to stick to X11."

argyllcms.com/

The raw image processing software RawTherapee has now released 5.11. For Windows, macOS and Linux.

Release notes and download: rawtherapee.com/downloads/5.11

EXIF. IPTC. XMP. Embedded. Sidecar. TIFF. DNG. RAW.

Too much (?) for my brain when going into details.

It's easier to read about photo archive (and more) than do it!

I came across an interesting book title: Fizpatrick, Colleen, 2005. Forensic Genealogy. Published by Rice Book Press in Fountain Valley, CA.

The book (discussed at archivehistory.jeksite.com/) is about ex how to determine when a photo was shot by looking for varous clues.

Trying to decide and understand what setting means and which settings I want to use for various photographic materials in VueScan. I've used it for several years, but still overwhelming with all options.

I have been using VueScan for many years. I am not aware of any Linux software that is nowhere near as good as VueScan. Do you know any?

I was looking for one of my photos. Thanks to my tags and descriptions I found the photo within seconds. I have a big backlog, but such metadata is so good to have, including to know what is on the photo - memory fade over time. I use

Today is my pod show "Getting started with the digiKam photo management software" aired on Hacker Public Radio.

I hope it can be useful for someone!

I also recommend you to subscribe to HPR for shows in many interesting topics.

hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4 @hpr

Show your photo on the digiKam splash screen for all its users! If your contribution is selected, of course. digikam.org/news/2024-03-20-sp

The new release of digiKam is out!

The great photo management software I use. Free and open software available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

digikam.org/news/2024-03-17-8.

Today is my first pod episode for Hacker Public Radio aired!

It is about how I migrated to digiKam software for my photo catalog, from Photoshop Elements or Lightroom. Episode hpr4071.

hackerpublicradio.org/

@hpr

En fotobetraktelse. Det är samma bild som jag delade för en vecka sedan, men nu ihop med text. En bild med 19 år på nacken. hemrin.com/ord-words/vid-borns

GIMP.
GNU Image Manipulation Program.
(GNU stands for “GNU's Not Unix.”)
Free and open software.
End of message.

gimp.org/

I am very satisfied that I last year changed to digiKam to manage my photos.

Not only that it is a free and open source software (donations are welcome from us users) and available on "all" platforms (Linux, Windows and macOS). It is also a very competent software!

Photos taken with mobile phone cameras running on /e/OS operating system. Join the contest or just browse the photos in the thread! Link to the currently latest submitted photo. community.e.foundation/t/a-sum #/e/OS

Summer holiday photo contest for photos taken with /e/OS mobile phones is ongoing! Here is my contribution (more may come). See all in the contest in same thread. #/e/os community.e.foundation/t/a-sum

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