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GIMP is a GNU Image Manipulation Program which is primarily used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats and more specialized tasks. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install latest GIMP 2.8.10 using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint and other Debian based Linux Distros.

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for GIMP 2.8.10 on your Debian based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for GIMP 2.8.10 in the software repository on your Debian based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest GIMP 2.8.10 on your Debian based Linux Distros.

After installation, search for "GIMP" either in Unity Dash or in Application menu. Open your favorite images for editing in GIMP software.

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digiKam developers officially announces the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.6.0 with minor new changes and bugfixes. As you know that digiKam Software Collection is a digital photography management tool specially used by Photographers for correction and manipulation of Images.

According to official announcement, digiKam 4.6.0 Software Collection comes with bugfixes in Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager. It includes fixes like sub sub-folders separated with '/' in file path cannot be created with album selection dialog, full image dimensions now shown when not viewing at 100% zoom level, tags are losts randomly when converting TIFF and PNG.

The preview fails when importing images because digiKam uses a wrong path with Gphoto2 camera is also fixed in this release. Other fixes includes taget ICC profile is common to all queues from BQM, mouse-over preview mode does not work, unable to zoom out to less than fit to window, sidecar files are neither created nor updated under Windows. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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digiKam developers officially announces the release of digiKam 4.3.0 with new addition and few improvements. Well there are several softwares available for photographers and image editors, so digiKam is another famous image editor which is used for photo corrections and manipulation. Currently this software is available for KDE based Linux Distros. The updated version of digiKam 4.3.0 primarily includes few new additions along with several bug fixes. For reviewing bug fixes, visit their official changelog page.

According to official announcement, digiKam 4.3.0 comes with new option which is used to display all non geo-located images from collections along with new action to exclude items without rating with items filter. It also includes new notification event when kio-slave cannot be started. The OS X event notifier is now used to dispatch notifications under Mac.

Apart from these new additions, the developers of digiKam 4.3.0 closes some of the bugs which were reported since previous release. Some of the bug fixes are add "Open with.." option in image editor, sort images by camera, handle existing read-only photo trees without copying, digiKam automatic photographic Labels, hidden tags for archiving purposes and faster display of images and prefetch wished for. You might also like to also check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Fotoxx team officially announces the release of Fotoxx 14.08 with new features and minor bug fixes. As you know that Fotoxx is an open source photo editing and collection management software which allows you edit your personal images. This release includes several new features along with performance improvements. This software is specifically designed for Linux distros.

According to official announcement, Fotoxx 14.08 comes with improved user interface which is used for creating or replacing a collection. The images inside collection can now be rearranged by dragging thumbnails. With this updated Fotoxx, you can easily edit metadata in RAW images which was earlier restricted. Some of the non obvious dialog controls now have popup tips when moused-over.

Fotoxx 14.08 comes with new effect by which you can create waves or add random waves to an image or selected area. The Undo/Redo button is now combined with "A" key so that it is possible to perform Undo/Redo action all files. The menu icon size is now adjustable through Tools -> User Settings. You can also open previous file which retains zoom size and position to facilitate fast comparison of two zoomed image versions. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Fotoxx team officially announces the release of Fotoxx 14.09 with new changes and minor bug fixes. As you know that Fotoxx is one of the popular image viewing and editing software which is used to edit images/photos and manage large collection. It includes thumbnail image browser and navigator, RAW file import, a comprehensive set of edit functions working in deep color, fast full-image visual feedback, multiple undo/redo and select/copy/paste.

According to official announcement, Fotoxx 14.09 comes with dialog set focus in main window after use of apply or next button, so subsequent KB shortcuts will work without extra mouse action. It also displays "no more images" message after deleting the last image in current gallery. The additional dialogs now restore previous inputs also across sessions.

If any image file is renamed or moved and the original image is deleted then collections containing images are automatically updated. The problematic move collections function was removed. Under area select, it selects by matching colors with little efforts.

This release uses same window or open another window when a thumbnail is clicked. The one window option is effectively a combined image and gallery view with adjustable allocation of screen space between the two views and two click selection of each image to view. It also includes new utility function to find and display all duplicate images along with new option to auto replay after reaching the end. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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