Re: [SLUG] Linux users in Canberra and photography
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:58 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: For full colour profiling, you should start by checking out little cms[2]. It provides utilities to help generate ICC colour profiles, which individual image editors are expected to know how to read (more often than not, they also use lcms to do so). The documentation for the DTP package Scribus has a very good overview of colour management in Linux, including some pointers to further reading. http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=enpage=cms -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux users in Canberra and photography
Hi Slug, Is there a users group in Canberra? I am a photography student at ANU. Issues with colour management has come up recently in my work flow. I want to have some recommendations on a) how to calibrate my Flat Screen NVidia Monitor? b) what kind of screen monitor calibration tools should I use and what software? c) how do I calibrate my HP Photosmart 7760 Printer to give a very close print to what I see on my screen? My computer is an Asus A6T Series Gaming Laptop. I am running Suse Linux 10.2 on this machine. Are there anyone who can give advice or have set up colour management for photography using a linux set up? You need not rush with replies, as I will be on vacation for a month. However, any info is welcome, eg. howtos, websites, even contacts other photographers working with linux would be welcome. Thanks Snappy Sharon. Sharon Doig in Canberra - Australia E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your mark and achieve success or, if need be, die in the attempt. Miriam Leslie Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux users in Canberra and photography
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Sharon Doig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a users group in Canberra? CLUG: http://www.clug.org.au/ They meet at your very own university :) I am a photography student at ANU. Issues with colour management has come up recently in my work flow. I want to have some recommendations on a) how to calibrate my Flat Screen NVidia Monitor calibration tools should I use and what software? If you have an Nvidia graphics card, and are using their proprietary drivers, you can use their nvidia-settings tool. c) how do I calibrate my HP Photosmart 7760 Printer to give a very close print to what I see on my screen? Try http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting -- Tired of slowness, bugs, crashes, viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, malware... ? Take back your computer. http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net pgpvCKEiNY6vP.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux users in Canberra and photography
I shoot with analogue gear, and very rarely do any post-processing. But hopefully I can throw a few useful pointers out there. On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:29 +1000, Sharon Doig wrote: I am a photography student at ANU. Issues with colour management has come up recently in my work flow. I want to have some recommendations on a) how to calibrate my Flat Screen NVidia Monitor? b) what kind of screen monitor calibration tools should I use and what software? I use a manual method for gamma correction[1] using the xgamma utility that should be included with your distribution already. To the best of my knowledge, hardware devices like Spyders aren't supported under Linux at all. For full colour profiling, you should start by checking out little cms[2]. It provides utilities to help generate ICC colour profiles, which individual image editors are expected to know how to read (more often than not, they also use lcms to do so). As far as applications go, while GIMP is the posterchild for Linux image editing, I wouldn't recommend it for truly serious work. Mostly because it doesn't handle 16-bit channels. If that matters to you, then the best option at the moment seems to be CinePaint[3], which started life as a fork of GIMP aimed at motion picture editing. Browsing through Wikipedia's entry on linux colour management[4] can also be pretty constructive. c) how do I calibrate my HP Photosmart 7760 Printer to give a very close print to what I see on my screen? If you're not using the HPLIP[5] package for your printer, then you should be. It has full support for your model printer, including utilities for colour calibration. Browsing their documentation should set you on the right track. Are there anyone who can give advice or have set up colour management for photography using a linux set up? Incidentally, if there is, then I for one would love to see a SLUG talk about end-to-end digital photography workflow in Linux. Even something about managing large image libraries would be neat. [1] - http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/07/2244242 is one reasonably good description. [2] - http://www.littlecms.com/ [3] - http://www.cinepaint.org/ [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management [5] - http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helps, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
