Photoflare is a free and open source image editor for Linux and Windows. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and based on Qt Framework This is a community edition of Photoflare. But the paid Photoflare studio edition also available for users who want to support this project. It is a simple and powerful image editor. This image editor is inspired by the popular image editor PhotoFiltre. It comes with basic image editing with image filters, image crop and image resize, colour adjustments, Batch image processing and tools like Colour picker, Magic wand, Paint bucket, Spray can, Paint brush, Clone Stamp, Blur tool, Eraser tool and Smudge tool.
Install Photoflare on Ubuntu
You can install Photoflare via flatpak package file from flathub. First install flatpak and fllathub on your system and restart it after the installation.
Install flatpak and flathub on Ubuntu
After the open the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and run below command.
flatpak install flathub io.photoflare.photoflare
And run the app using below command.
flatpak run io.photoflare.photoflare
Install Photoflare via PPA:
You can install the latest version of Photoflare Image Editor via the official PPAs. Start your terminal application first (ctrl+alt+t) and run these commands one by one. During the installation enter your Ubuntu user password if needed.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:photoflare/photoflare-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install photoflare
Photoflare daily builds are also available. If you want to test you and install it via the below PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:photoflare/photoflare-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install photoflare
If you want to uninstall Photoflare Image Editor, then you can run below commands to uninstall and remove the PPA from your system.
sudo apt remove photoflare
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:photoflare/photoflare-stable
To remove the daily build PPA use this command.
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:photoflare/photoflare-daily