ffDiaporama 1.6 Released (Tool To Create Movie Clips From Photos and Videos)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/">ffDiaporama</a> is an application written in Qt, available for Linux and Windows, that allows you mix videos, music, text and photos to create movie clips / slideshows. </b>The application supports adding animations such as zoom, rotation or Ken Burns Effect, add titles (text), annotations and more.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8db_j-ojK1P5wJoYY7f7z0ANjk-3QlicKkB18837JQMehEshdDZwhBa9dP5FxOJZXPkqvdknl7Wl-XuZswRhJeqU9grcAs-_sKusFLxxxXhwRqH1tf1VlkM7AZmkRxLb_4bmgswz1jI/s1600/ffdiaporama1.6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ffDiaporama" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8db_j-ojK1P5wJoYY7f7z0ANjk-3QlicKkB18837JQMehEshdDZwhBa9dP5FxOJZXPkqvdknl7Wl-XuZswRhJeqU9grcAs-_sKusFLxxxXhwRqH1tf1VlkM7AZmkRxLb_4bmgswz1jI/s320/ffdiaporama1.6.png" title="ffDiaporama" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>ffDiaporama 1.6 stable has been released recently, getting lots of improvements and new features, including:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>a collection of hundred of textures has been added as an optional addon - this can be used as the slides or text blocks background;</li><li>24 new shapes for block text have been added;</li><li>New block type: clip art texts, which includes a collection of 67 clip arts</li><li>SVG support;</li><li>new option to export audio track;</li><li>ability to change the sample rate frequency;</li><li>complete encoding and decoding audio/video engines overhaul;</li><li>the wiki help pages are now integrated into the application as tooltips;</li><li>many bug fixes and more.</li></ul><br />Below you can watch a ffDiaporama demo video, created by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepestmrdo">Jose Baeza</a>:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YJpc_z-1QPw" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJpc_z-1QPw">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The video has been created using ffDiaporama 1.5 and not the latest 1.6 stable release, but it should be enough to get an idea on what you can do using this application.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install ffDiaporama in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu (and derivatives such as Linux Mint, etc.) can install ffDiaporama by using its stable PPA. To add the PPA and install ffDiaporama, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ffdiaporamateam/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install ffdiaporama</code></pre>To also install the new textures collection, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ffdiaporama-texturemate</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Those who want to try the latest development version can use the ffDiaporama <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ffdiaporamateam/+archive/daily">daily PPA</a> instead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/?page_id=178">Download ffDiaporama</a> for other Linux distributions</b> (packages available for LMDE, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo, Mageia, Chakra, and Salix OS, though not all have been updated to the latest version) <b>or Windows</b>.</div>

ffDiaporama 1.6 Released (Tool To Create Movie Clips From Photos and Videos)

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XnRetro: Add Instagram-Like Effects To Your Images With This Desktop App

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.xnview.com/en/xnretro/">XnRetro</a> is a free to use (but not open source) tool available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (as well as iOS and Android) that allows you to easily apply various vintage effects, borders and more to your images.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="XnRetro Linux" border="0" height="236" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-enuYFRKOfHg/UXV3-8q8URI/AAAAAAAAPBw/ZMO69SYV93g/s320/xnretro_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many applications you can use to apply effects to your photos but XnRetro is one of the easiest to use, comparable to Instagram I'd say: you simply select an image and the effect you want to apply (you can use multiple effects if you want) and you immediately get a preview. You can then save the image or share it on websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Imgur and so on:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="XnRetro Linux" src="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application also allows you to tweak the effects by adjusting various settings such as the brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, noise, rotate the picture and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please note that in my test under Ubuntu 13.04, XnRetro failed to upload images to some websites, such as Imgur or Imageshack, so this feature is a bit buggy for now, at least on Linux.</div><br /><br /><b>XnRetro features:</b><br /><ul><li>20 color effects;</li><li>15 light effects;</li><li>5 Vignette effects;</li><li>28 frame borders;</li><li>adjustable contrast, gamma, saturation and so on;</li><li>share the resulted image on Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Imgur, Tumblr, ImageShack, YFrog, GlowFoto or TwitPic.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Download XnRetro</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Download XnRetro for Linux, Windows, MacOS X from <a href="http://www.xnview.com/en/xnretro/">HERE</a>. Or get the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/xnretro/id592583459">iOS</a> or <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xnview.XnRetro">Android</a> app.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Note for Linux users:</b> there's only a 32bit binary but it should work on 64bit (I've tested it under Ubuntu 13.04 64bit). To run it, extract the downloaded archive and double click "xnretro.sh", then select "Run". You can also run it by double clicking "XnRetro" but that might not work on all Linux distributions.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to <a href="https://plus.google.com/114564489020097923600">Satya</a> for the tip!</i></div>

XnRetro: Add Instagram-Like Effects To Your Images With This Desktop App

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Elegant Image Viewer `Photo` Sees New Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"<a href="http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?content=147453">Photo</a>", a fancy Qt image viewer, has been updated recently with new features some of you have requested, such as a slideshow, new settings and others.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T34TkxkPh8E/UQA7nTwZzoI/AAAAAAAAM50/etqFvgBffU8/s1600/photo-application.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo image viewer" border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T34TkxkPh8E/UQA7nTwZzoI/AAAAAAAAM50/etqFvgBffU8/s320/photo-application.png" title="photo image viewer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Photo is an image viewer in which the image is displayed in full-screen with a configurable, semi-transparent overlay behind the photo if it doesn't cover the whole screen. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application also features image thumbnails on the bottom, which are set to autohide in the new version, but you can set them to always be visible from the settings. The menu is also hidden by default and to access it, you must point the mouse to the top right edge of the screen.  </div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">`Photo` isn't just elegant, it's also highly customizable and a great way to view a large number of images.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TItfyZr6_8A/UQA7_7fF0lI/AAAAAAAAM58/hSZ8yYBI6Fg/s1600/photo-app_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TItfyZr6_8A/UQA7_7fF0lI/AAAAAAAAM58/hSZ8yYBI6Fg/s320/photo-app_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest<b> Photo 0.9</b>, released a few days ago (well, two versions were released, one being a minor bug-fix release) comes with a <b>completely re-written and re-structured code</b>, a <b>new look</b> for various parts of the application, implements a<b> slideshow</b> feature as well as:</div><ul><li>faster startup;</li><li>better shortcut handling;</li><li>better exif handling;</li><li>improved thumbnail implementation;</li><li>lots of new settings, including customizable context menu (by default it uses KDE apps such as Dolphin, but you can change that from the settings window - "Other Settings" tab);</li><li>better image handling;</li><li>new command line options;</li><li>many bug fixes.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Photo image viewer in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Photo image viewer in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install photoqt</code></pre><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest Photo image viewer via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/photo/">AUR</a>. <br /><br />For other Linux distributions, see the Photo <a href="http://photoqt.org/down">downloads page</a>.

Elegant Image Viewer `Photo` Sees New Release

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