I tried RawTherapee, back when Adobe killed RSE, it wasn't bad, but
there was a serious bug when opening K20D files, even to simply display
the thumbnail view. The program would at best simply go away, a crash
that left no vestiges of the software in memory. At worst it would lock
resources requiring extreme measures to even get a PC to reboot. It was
also quite slow on the machine I was using at the time when processing
*istD[s] files. After a few months of waiting for a fix I uninstalled
it and moved on.
On 2/13/2016 1:44 PM, Mark C wrote:
My scanning PC is setup as a dual boot into either Lubuntu or Win XP.
I need XP to run NikonScan but have played around in Lubuntu a bit. I
test drove Gimp and Darktable but they really did not catch my fancy.
That was a couple of years ago so maybe they have improved, and i
never tried RawTherapee or Shotwell.
After a clean install of Vista (not from the disk image files) I found
that I still could not install the utilities I had tried earlier. I
grabbed older versions of each and to my surprise found that they
installed fine. Maybe something in the installer changed over time and
made it incompatible with Vista. Or maybe there were still Vista
updates pending that would fix the issue. At least the clean install
is free of all the crap that came bundled with the laptop.
Mark
On 2/13/2016 12:43 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
No doubt you can blow new life to your laptop with a light-weight
linux distro such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
But you will have to get used to the photo software (GIMP,
RawTherapee, Darktable, Shotwell).
I have installed these all but my preference is still also LR with
Elements.
Henk
Op 2016-02-13 om 18:03 schreef Mark C:
Thanks, I may give that a try.
Unfortunately, Vista glitches wasted no time in arriving and I'm
suddenly blocked form installing many pieces of software. Clicking
on some .exe installers results in absolutely nothing happening,
while some do install and any installed .exe works fine. I think it
may be due to the anti-virus software blocking something or having
corrupted a registry setting. So, I am again re-installing Vista and
if it fails this time I think it is time to move on to a new device....
There are linux distros that claim to support this laptop, but I
have not been successful in finding Linux software that I like for
photo processing.
Mark
On 2/12/2016 3:26 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Depending on how much processing you want to do on the road, Faststone
Image Viewer is a low cost (as in no cost) option.
If you set up the settings correctly, it will read raw files (rather
than just the embedded previews) and it has a limited range of editing
options (Levels, curves, colour correction etc). It's useful if you
just want to develop a few jpgs while travelling.
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, at 01:56 PM, Mark C wrote:
A couple days ago I dropped my 9 year old laptop and the hard
drive was
trashed. I replaced it with one that I had on hand and am now
completing
the process of downloading and applying every Windows Vista update
patch
ever issued... One of the few things I still use this laptop for is
processing photos while traveling. My phone now handles email, casual
web browsing, etc.
The laptop has a decent dual core processor (Intel Core 2 T5300)
and 4
gigs of ram. I've been using Photoshop CS 5.1 and bridge to review
and
do some light processing of photos. K3 DNG files are pretty slow on
this setup, K5 files were not too bad.
So - before I reinstall Photoshop, any suggestions about a leaner and
faster program for basic raw file processing? I don't want to
spend much
money since I could upgrade to a much more competent laptop for a few
hundred dollars. But maybe there is a sleek and simple photo
editor out
there.
I'm also wondering if an earlier version of Photoshop might be the
sweet
spot in terms of light footprint.
Any suggestions?
Mark
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