On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:17:08PM +0800, Sandy Harris scripsit: > Linux includes GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation > Program). I've heard a number of people grumble > about various aspects of that. Anyone here use > it?
The main grumbles are UI and that it does not support greater than 8 bit colour depth. If you are producing images for the web -- jpegs -- you're stuck with 8 bit at best anyway, so that's not a problem. If you're going to print, that is a problem, so you use something else. The something elses include CinePaint (a fork of the GIMP), digikam, and presumably some stuff I am not familiar with. I rather like the thing; there's a learning curve, as there would be for anything complex, but it's not difficult to use. Hugin for panorama stitching and the unfortunately named qtpfsgui for HDR. (You can use CinePaint for HDR as well.) > The obvious thing to start with is Google's Picasa > since there's a Linux version of that. > > What else is available? The ur-RAW processor is dcraw, Dave Coffin's RAW; it's purely command line. ufraw, Unidentified Flying RAW, is a graphical front end for dcraw. My preference is ufraw for the majority of processing (white balance, black point, saturation curves, colour...) and GIMP (or CinePaint if I expect to print) for scaling, rotation, and individual colour channel tweaking. -- Graydon -- 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.
