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TL;DR; I just found my new photography workflow: digiKam\u00a0for photo management, organization, and simple batch editing, Topaz Adjust 5\u00a0for image enhancement, GIMP\u00a0for ultra-fine tuning … and the best part is that all this is in Linux (Ubuntu 11.04 to be exact) – making this a great birthday present to myself today! +++ Background I recently … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,50,129,53,47,66,189],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digikam","tag-image-editing","tag-linux","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-plugin","tag-topaz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZdXI-w8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2018,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/last-post-of-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":1992,"position":0},"title":"Last Post of 2011","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing important here, just some last minute ramblings while reflecting back on 2011... 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