On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:37:45PM -0500, Doug Franklin scripsit: >> Larry Colen wrote: >>> I'll be the token linux-weenie and suggest ditching windows and >>> running either Ubuntu or Kubuntu. While it is possible to write a >>> virus that targets linux, it's quite a bit more difficult. >> >> Show me a useful replacement for Photoshop that can do >> 16-bit-per-color processing on Linux and I'll switch in a heartbeat. > > Cinepaint. http://www.cinepaint.org/ > > There are ufraw plugins from cinepaint. (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/) > > Most major distros will already have those all packaged up. > > You may still not like the user interface; I quite like ufraw myself, > and find that I don't do much other than scaling in either the GIMP or > cinepaint. (If it's going to wind up a JPEG, there's very little reason > not to use the GIMP.) > > In the mighty Unix tradition of strong minds and weak typing, qtpfsgui > (http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/related.php) is a workflow and front > end for HDR and tone-mapping tools. There's also Hugin for panoramic > stitching. > > So, probably not the same one-stop shop as Photoshop, but lots of very > capable stuff. And if I can figure it out, how hard can it be? > > -- Graydon
I've played with these apps. Powerful in some ways, but they simply can't hold a candle to the combo of Bridge, ACR and Photoshop. And frankly, they aren't even in shouting distance in many ways (CMYK and Colour Management support in particular). Linux is an excellent OS, but until the folks writing the image editing software options on Linux start talking to UI designers and actual serious PS users, they're not going to produce a viable replacement for Photoshop. At this point the GIMP is somewhere around PS 5 in real-world functionality and Cinepaint is about PS 7 technically but behind the GIMP in UI. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
