On 3/27/2014 2:48 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote:
This weekend I installed Ubuntu on my scanning PC - tonight I finally fired
up the scanner running the linux version of VueScan and it is churning away,
batch scanning 12 35mm exposures. Great!
Huray! Welcome to the Linux world!
However I would love to hear your feedback on your experience with
Linux for photography, thus keep us (or at least me :) ) posted on
this topic.
Thanks - it was really quite a simple install, easier than when I last
installed XP. The PC is ~10 years old and I expected to have to hunt for
drivers, but aside from the the screen resolution issue it went perfectly.
After installing Unbuntu I learned that there are several other linux builds
out there. Is there one better suited for photo processing?
To directly answer your question of which "Linux distribution is
better suited for photo processing", I don't think there is such a
distribution out there, although I guess Ubuntu fits the bill. ...
I will probably stick with this one... I noticed that there were
versions Ubuntu and Kubuntu (?) that were tweak very specifically - e.g.
a Bioscience version, a multimedia version (video editing, I think)
etc... I was hoping there might be a photographers version!
Are there any good LInux Photo Editors out there? I am scanning B&W and
need something that support 16 bit gray scale, which I think excludes Gimp.
To my knowledge there is no "stable" (and open-source) 16 bit
image editor for Linux. There is however CinePaint which is a GIMP
fork (?) to support 16 bit image manipulation:
http://www.cinepaint.org/ , however I haven't used it thus I can't say
much about it.
For RAW processing --- which you could try to use with your 16 bit
TIFF --- I can recommend RawTherapee (the one I use, although there
are others like Darktable), and there was discussion about this in
July 2013 with the subject: `Linux RAW editor/manager? (was Re: OT -
Lightzone Open Source Photo Editor (Windows, Linux))`. The following
is my reply regarding Darktable and RawTherapee:
http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2013-July/351722.html
Related to this topic, I've made a list of software related to
photography (which run on Linux, that I have used, and that I can
recommend):
http://wiki.volution.ro/CiprianDorinCraciun/Notes/Public/Photography/Software
Looking at ArchLinux's wiki it seems they have an even more
comprehensive list:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Image
Thanks! Lots of good option to try there! I will dig up the old thread
in the archives....
Can anyone recommend a primer on Linux?
I think the best place to start is the distribution's tutorial /
documentation / wiki, and any of the previously mentioned
distributions have good documentation (or wiki). Unfortunately in the
Linux world things move very fast, especially when it comes to desktop
environments and tools, thus books tend to stay behind.
I've been trying to wrap my head around the basic design of Linux -
thinks like sudo and chmod were totally alien to me. Ditto with the
different command prompts based on the status of user permissions. Makes
sense one you unravel it but it is not intuitive, to me at least.
Starting to get an understanding of it.... The only program I actually
installed myself - VueScan - is sitting in the downloads folder. So even
things like figuring out where to install programs is a mystery (I
assume they should go somewhere in the usr folder...) But part of my
motivation for using this was to learn it in hopes of someday
unshackling from Windows completely.
Thanks again
Mark
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