On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:34:41 -0400 Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the *nix crowd, this is kinda interesting. > http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/using-linux-for-photography-where-we-stand/ hi scott, thanks for posting that. while i would agree with the general thrust of what he is saying, i also think he has less experience with the programs he is talking about than he'd like us to believe, particularly digikam. i have used most of the programmes he is talking about at some time or the other and have more or less settled on digikam for my complete photo needs. the following passage for example, gives the impression that digikam is just an image management programme: <quote> However, the Unix tradition is more like ___one tool for one task___ and we have seen numerous tools on Linux for most photography related tasks. Some are command line based: GREYCStoration (denoising), DVD-Slideshow, xcalib and the ArgyllCMS suite (calibration) not to forget the powerful imagemagick suite. UFRaw (raw converter) can be used both as a command line tool or with a GUI. Add to the mix Gimp, Cinepaint and Krita (editing), Rawstudio (raw converter) a myriad of image viewers (GThumb, Gwenview, Gview or Mirage), a couple of ___image management programs___ (F-Spot and Digikam) and a few metadata and tags editors (jbrout, xmpmanager___) </quote> however digikam is also a raw converter (uses its own package of dcraw), has full support for colour managed workflow, supports 16-bit files, is also an image editor (denoising, usm, curves, most of what you'd expect), an image viewer, has full-screen slideshow *and* can edit metadata and tags (though editing metadata is missing in the latest release) besides doing a lot more like export to flickr, create html galleries etc... :-) again to quote him: <quote> * I can achieve high quality denoising by choosing the parameters in a Gimp-plugin but then I have to run the command-line version of GREYCStoration to keep a 16bits / channel image. * I can view my JPEG images in Rawstudio but not modify them. I can view RAW thumbnails in GThumb but I can___t do anything with them; but GThumb allows me to view and modify JPEG. * The only way to edit a picture in 16bits modes is with Cinepaint; it does the job but misses quite a few ___must have___ like preview for unsharp mask, effect layers, etc. Krita has proved to crashy for me and Gimp is limited to 8 bits. [...] As far as I am concerned, what I need is: * display quickly any file type (including RAW) * thumbnails / image / metadata / folder browsing panes that can be moved around and hidden * full exif and XMP tags management / search support * slideshow / fullscreen * create contact sheets (I know, this looks like a gadget, but it comes in very handy) * right-click on an image to open it in the raw converter / image editor * Color Managed </quote> you can do all of that from inside digikam... except the create contact sheets bit :-)) apologies for the long mail... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
