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Open source software is amazing and it seems like there are always solutions that come in handy when I look hard enough. Today was one of those days when an internet search for a query I read on Mastodon netted another open source solution. Mastodon user,\u00a0Bryan Mitchell\u00a0<\/a>asked \u201cAre there any photo editing software programs out there where you can put a set of photos into a collage?\u201d Bryan had used Google\u2019s Picasa formerly but that is no longer available. A quick search revealed an open source project called\u00a0Photocollage<\/a>. It is an easy to use software package written in Python with a GPL 2.0 license. It was easy for me to find the correct install script for Linux Mint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ sudo apt install photocollage<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can also install Photocollage on RPM based distributions by using the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo dnf install photocollage<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can elect to install it with Python by using the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo pip3 install photocollage<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It can be launched from the command line or in my case from the \u201cGraphics\u201d submenu of my Cinnamon desktop. Click on the \u2018Add images..\u2019 button and start adding pictures to your collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screen Picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In short order I added a number of pictures from a directory on my computer. There is a button to \u2018Save poster\u2019, two buttons in the middle of the panel to \u2018go back\u2019 or \u2018go forward\u201d and one more at the end to \u2018Regenerate\u2019 the collage.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screen Picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The last button on the panel is for \u2018Settings\u2019 to allow you to choose different picture sizes and templates. You can select border thickness and background color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Screen Picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This software is easy to use and the results a very good. Images can be saved in ten different formats including: bit map paint, jpeg, gif, Microsoft Paint, pcx, png, tga, tiff, WebP and xbm. The software integrates with GNOME and is available in English, French, German, Czech, Italian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Polish and Ukrainian. Lead developer is\u00a0Adrien Verge<\/a>\u00a0and there are over twenty other contributors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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