On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 16:00 +1000, Sharon Doig wrote: > 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?
I don't have a lot of experience with photography under Linux, though The GIMP does have RAW support, so you could use that. :) You should come to CLUG/Open Media Group in Canberra (the later is still in planning and could be merged with CLUG). -Pascal > Sharon Doig > > > Note: forwarded message attached. > > 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 > email message attachment > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Sharon Doig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone? > > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:54:48 +1000 (EST) > > > > 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 > > 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
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