Cory,
what's your opinion cinepaint vs photoshop for raw workflow?
can you do color management in X?
i would love to ditch windows, but haven't found a reasonable
alternative for PS CS2 on linux.
There's no question that cinepaint is not nearly as
full-featured as photoshop. I haven't used photoshop for a long time, but
I certainly wouldn't want to cough up hundreds of dollars for all the
features that I don't need. Besides, it would require running some other
OS. Winders just blows and I can't afford a mac.
As far as my linux workflow, it's only recently it's become truly
possible to do a full RAW, color-managed, calibrated workflow. Remember
that even in MacOS/Winders, "Color management" support in the OS is little
more than an interpolation engine and a database. Applications still need
to do all the details of *using* the color profile (e.g. monitor) that the
OS tells it it should.
The color management of X at this point consists of having the
LCMS libraries available for cinepaint/scribus to use. Then, within the
app, you set the input colorspace, monitor colorspace, soft-proofing
colorspace, and output colorspace. Unfortunately, the monitor calibration
software is quite limited at the moment. Only a couple of (older) devices
are supported by argyll, and I haven't found any color-dongle vendors that
have linux versions. I don't do much squint-twiddle-wait-squint-type
fine-tuning of images, though, so monitor calibration isn't
super-important. I'm more concerned with maintaining full gamut and
un-quantized resolution from camera to print with minimal adjustments
along the way.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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