Picasa - Google photo editing

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-picasa-3-5-in-ubuntu.html

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.”Picasa” is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for “my house” and “pic” for pictures (personalized art).

Combine multiple pictures into one

$ montage
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_montage.htm
$ montage *.JPG -geometry 640x480 -background black -bordercolor black -borderwidth 5  out.jpg

$ composite WARNING: the last parameter is the output file and will overwrite any existing file!
 - composite *.JPG out.jpg
http://clintbrothers.blogspot.com/2007/12/easy-image-merge-with-imagemagick.html

Add frame border with mogrify
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_23.html#SEC344

TestDisk: File recovery tool

I thought my pictures were a gonner when my digi cam reported that my memory card is corrupted

fortunately, this handly tool allowed me to recover pictures from my SD, it even recovered pictures that I already removed! wow

testdisk-6.11.3/linux$ sudo ./photorec_static

My micro sd camera card is in /dev/sdb1

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step