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LairWare : MPFreaker – an excelent OSX utility to maintain iTunes libraries

knut — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:45:55 +0000

Adobe Lightroom tutorials

knut — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:44:57 +0000

I have been using Adobes Lightroom for a while. Lightroom is a good workflow application and is really good on editing RAW files. It’s quite easy to use but I have been missing a good tutorial. Until now that is. I have found creativepro.com’s Lightroom tutorial.

LightZone 3.3 beta offers pro photo manipulation for Linux

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:11:50 +0000

LightZone is a comercial photo editing software with good reviews. There’s a free Linux version of this program. Read the review in Linux.com.

Open SOurce photography

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:05:18 +0000

I am a hobby photographer. A digital hobby photographer. One of the negative things of being of being digital is that good software often costs money and much are really expensive to. Therefore I am on the look for cheap or open source alternatives.

I just stumbled on the website Open Source Photography that deals with open source photography software. Here’s the old site with lots of tutorials.

The site is the forum of the Flickr group Open Source Photography (OSP).

Two cross platform tools to make panoramas

knut — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:13:02 +0000

Hugin is a program to make panoramas with. Enblend is used to merge several pictures with different exposures together to make a picture that looks like a tonemapped image.

Here’s a nice article about how to use enblend on Linux.

MapBuilder- an open source tool for making maps

knut — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:26:38 +0000

I sometimes find that a map would be a good illustration to one of my articles. Finding good maps that covers specific areas is difficult. MapBuilder seems like a good tool to make these kind of maps.

Getting Wacom drawing tablets to work in Linux

knut — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:12:38 +0000

I got a Wacom tablet for my birthday. It’s ideal for making drawings with my PC. It’s easy to setup and I get good results from what I do. Off course I am no artist so it’s nothing fancy. It’s much easier to use a tablet than to draw or retouch with the mouse.

I have gotten the tablet to work in Windows and on my Mac, but I have had trouble getting it to work well in Linux. The problem is that the drawing area on the tablet is only a small portion of the drawing in my preferred applications. The GIMP and Inkscape. I haven’t found any solutions for the problem until I read this article in Linux.com. Now it seems to be a way for me to use Linux also for drawing and retouching.

Here is one of the drawings I have made with my tablet.

Photo Slideshows are So Yesterday. ANIMOTO = Your Photos + MTV

knut — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:03:39 +0000

Check it out here!

WordPress 2.3 Delivered, 2.4 on Deck

knut — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:12:06 +0000

Here are a couple of tips regarding the new WordPress 2.3 version

“WordPress 2.3 arrived a couple days ago. Reception has been very positive, and most people seem pleased with it. As expected, plugin compatibility due to the schema changes caused some grief. Two very popular plugins that need to be upgraded when moving to 2.3 are Google Sitemaps and Extended Live Archives. If you have one of those plugins, please be sure to upgrade to the latest version.”

Kerkythea- a powerfull renderer with plugin support for Google Sketchup

knut — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:10:08 +0000

Kerkytheas home on the net is here.