Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, PhotoFlow is an open-source, non-destructive photo editing software for adjusting photos from RAW images to high-quality printing.
Main features:
- Fully non-destructive, layer-based photo editing workflow with realtime preview of the final image
- Support for 8-bits and 16-bits integer as well as 32-bits and 64-bits floating point precision, selectable at runtime and on a per-image basis
- Plugin-based architecture: new tools can be implemented as separate modules that are loaded at runtime
- Allows to load and edit images of arbitrary size, thanks to the underlying rendering engine based on the VIPS library
- Fully color managed workflow: user-defined input, work and output profiles, soft-proofing, etc…
- Support for layer grouping and layer masks
- Support for common photo editing tools: levels, curves, brightness-contrast control, blurring, sharpening, cropping, resizing, colorspace conversions, etc…, all implemented in the form of image layers
- User-friendly interface to develop new tools and image filters as external plugins
For more information about this PhotoFlow, see the project’s official website.
The latest version available is PhotoFlow 0.1.150502, which has been recently released, coming with changes.
In this article I will show you how to install PhotoFlow 0.1.150502 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
To install PhotoFlow 0.1.150502 on Ubuntu 15.04, we have to download the deb packages for our system’s architecture and install them via command-line.
Install PhotoFlow 0.1.150502 on 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04 systems:
$ wget "https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway/+files/photoflow_0.1.150502-1dhor%7Eutopic_i386.deb" -O photoflow_0.1.150502_i386.deb
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ sudo gdebi photoflow_0.1.150502_i386.deb
Install PhotoFlow 0.1.150502 on 64 bit Ubuntu 15.04 systems:
$ wget "https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway/+files/photoflow_0.1.150502-1dhor%7Eutopic_amd64.deb" -O photoflow_0.1.150502_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ sudo gdebi photoflow_0.1.150502_amd64.deb
For Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems, PhotoFlow 0.1.150502 is available via PPA, so installing it is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the photoflow package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install photoflow
Optional, to remove photoflow, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove photoflow