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If you use a photo editor to crop or convert your images, or to improve brightness, color balance and contrast, then you probably don’t need a professional image processing suite.

KPlato is a small and easy project management application, a part of the KOffice office suite. Developers of the application focus on planning and scheduling of projects. This article highlights key features of the application and shows several screenshots.

The new version of Ardour – the most advanced digital audio workstation for Linux – was announced today. The public release of Ardour 2.7 includes, for the first time, public versions for OS X (Intel and PPC).

Kdenlive is a non-linear video editing suite for KDE. A new version 0.7, released today, is the first release for KDE 4.

Open source office suite needs some decent open and royalty-free clip arts. This tutorial presents valuable clip art repositories and an extension which enables direct downloading of graphics into the OpenOffice.org documents.

This tutorial describes how to use internal effects available within Audacity – a multiplatform, open source sound editor. Equalizer, compressor, and normalization are used.

Beta version of PDF import extension for OpenOffice.org is now available online. Fully functional version, special features like importing layout of LaTeX PDF or import of complex vector graphics, will appear later. The preliminary version of this extension allows to open and edit PDF documents up to version 1.4.

Adding photos to Flickr using web browser can be a very annoying procedure. Thus, the better solution is to use tools, which enable us to maintain our Flickr account directly from the file manager or desktop application. Linux users may choose several solutions.

Fyre is an open source application which creates images and animations based on histograms of chaotic functions. Fyre works in Linux and Windows, its interface is based on GTK libraries. The article at Free Your Media blog gives some tips on using Fyre.

Audacity is a cross-platform digital audio editor application. It imports and records audio tracks, provides a large palette of digital effects and plug-ins, and can be used for a variety of tasks – from post-processing of podcasts, to converting and mastering cassette tapes or records into digital tracks. This tutorial presents the most important features of Audacity. Part 1 is devoted to issues associated with recording of audio files. Next parts will show how to use effects, mix tracks and remove vocals from music recordings.

Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based on the design principles of the module tracker. It supports instrument plugins, effects, MIDI input and output, synchronization capabilities, and parameter automation. Several weeks ago a first version of Renoise for Linux appeared. The article presents some screenshots of Renoise 1.9.1 running under Linux.

Ardour is currently the most advanced digital audio workstation for Linux. However, several other useful applications are also available. This article presents Traverso, Qtractor, Wired, Frinika, and Protux DAWs.

kFlickr is a standalone Flickr uploader for KDE. It allows for easy upload of photos with drag and drop from other applications (Konqueror). This tutorial describes how to configure KFlickr and to start publishing your photos.

This short tutorial describes how to record audio tracks and then mix them all down using Qtractor -- an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application for Linux. It allows us to record soundtracks, add MIDI files, arrange, mix music and adjust the volumes, effects, and clean up the sound.

Here's a walkthrough gallery of screenshots from Dyne:bolic 2.5.2, codenamed Dhoruba, released one month ago.