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Shotwell 0.15 released with new features and fixes
Ubuntu ships by default Shotwell, handy image manager and basic editor permitting both image-gallery management and basic image editing, latter proving itself useful in numerous and numerous situations.
Shotwell has been updated to version 0.15, introducing new features and a significant amount of fixes and optimizations.
Right-clicking on an image-->Open With-->Shotwell Photo Viewer, pushes the image into Shotwell, where the user is able to edit the image with several options, among which Adjust.
Hitting the Adjust button, the user is to notice the newly-implemented Highlights entry, entry useful to on-demand tweak the level of highlight; for example, setting Highlights as low as possible, removes the light from the editing-in-progress image.
Clicking on the bottom-bar's Crop button, summons a resizable dialog, permitting to the user to crop the image accordingly, dialog gaining in the 0.15 version size-aware capabilities.
Resizing the dialog, exposes in real-time the newly-acquired size, allowing the user to hassle-free observe the size of the about-to-be-cropped portion of the image; for example, in order to crop a piece of an image to 640x480, the user is now to adjust the cropping dialog to 640x480, handy ability adding clarity to the image editor.
Moreover, Shotwell 0.15 comes with:
- usage of OAuth / OpenID for YouTube plugin
- strengthened re-import of video files
- optimized video thumbnailing
- numerous fixes
How do we install Shotwell 0.15? Add the following official PPA (Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell
Shotwell 0.15 has already landed in Ubuntu 13.10 via the regular updates.
via: http://iloveubuntu.net/shotwell-015-released-new-features-and-fixes