Hi David,
I am a photography student at ANU in Canberra. My husband absolutely refuses to
buy any microsoft products. He is a DBA and web administrator and works with
their products everyday and sees all the problems. He didn't want these
problems at home. I can understand that we don't have virus issues etc. But
this leaves the problem of my colour workflow being up the creek. At the moment
I have had success with it because my camera has SRGB and Photoshop colour
settings. This is because my camera and screen is set up SRGB and my 1 hour
photolab is also SRGB in it's printing. How ever, I have printed with
professional printers before and you can get a lot better colour gamut with
Photoshop colour settings.
I have had one bit of success though.... I was looking for a RAW camera file
converter. I didn't think the one in Digikam is very good. It made everything
too dark to get a good print from. However, I found a open source program
called Bibble is is a raw converter with good colour correction options
included. It produces a jpeg which you can print from.This is without telling
the lab it needs your corrections profile to be used when printing.
Yes, I am a perfectionist when it comes to getting my work printed. As my work
is my advertising etc.
That is my situation with Linux and photography.
Can you tell me a little about your experience with Linux and photography?
Sharon Doig
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Sharon Doig in Canberra - Australia
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Hi David,
I am a photography student at ANU in Canberra. My husband absolutely refuses to
buy any microsoft products. He is a DBA and web administrator and works with
their products everyday and sees all the problems. He didn't want these
problems at home. I can understand that we don't have virus issues etc. But
this leaves the problem of my colour workflow being up the creek. At the moment
I have had success with it because my camera has SRGB and Photoshop colour
settings. This is because my camera and screen is set up SRGB and my 1 hour
photolab is also SRGB in it's printing. How ever, I have printed with
professional printers before and you can get a lot better colour gamut with
Photoshop colour settings.
I have had one bit of success though.... I was looking for a RAW camera file
converter. I didn't think the one in Digikam is very good. It made everything
too dark to get a good print from. However, I found a open source program
called Bibble is is a raw converter with good colour correction options
included. It produces a jpeg which you can print from.This is without telling
the lab it needs your corrections profile to be used when printing.
Yes, I am a perfectionist when it comes to getting my work printed. As my work
is my advertising etc.
That is my situation with Linux and photography.
Can you tell me a little about your experience with Linux and photography?
Sharon Doig
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Slug,
>
> I would at least love a sig email list! One of my top wishes is to set up
> my colour managed work flow! An to discuss any other related photographic
> topics to do with open source products. As the American groups talk about
> American products and not all of the US products are available here.
>
> Occasionally I may pop in to Sydney.... My DH is an avid fan of Linux. I
> dare say he would find it useful as well.
>
> Sharon Doig
> Canberra.
>
Exactly the same position I'm in.
Let's keep the conversation going please. There MUST be a need for this
sort of thing. If SLUG don't want to do a mailing list I'm quite happy to
do one.
I'm sick of "shock horror" reaction I get when I say that I refuse to use
Photoshop, and I want to demostrate that I can do without it, or prove
that I can't do without it - one or the other!
Sharon Doig in Canberra - Australia
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Make your mark and achieve success
or, if need be, die in the attempt.
Miriam Leslie
********************************************
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