Rakesh Malik wrote:
Unfortunately, there's nothing comparable to Photoshop for Linux
that's in my price range right now... the Gimp just doesn't cut it for
my photography.
It is not Photoshop and is not a part of my photography workflow, but I
understand that Lightroom meets the needs of most (many pro)
photographers. It installed and ran well for me under Virtualbox; on a
64bit amd dual core and 3 gigs of RAM.
I use to software that came with my alpha 850 and 900 cameras for
initial color correction and dynamic range enhancement (it does this
better than anything else I have tried, including LR); I run it under
wine, but had to install it under VB first, then was a simple matter of
moving the application to wine's windows folder. Running under wine
instead of VB saves whatever memory you have alloted to your VB machine
(about 1.25gig in my case), besides what the app actually requires. I
realize that is getting close to the tweaking you speak of, but it only
has to be done when installing the app. This method of installing under
VB and moving to wine has worked for a few other applications, but not
for all that I have tried; definitely worth checking for apps you run
often under VB.
I will also mention that Noise Ninja is available in a native Linux
version; it _is_ part of my workflow - > does a fantastic job and is
very reasonably priced.
I guess that my HW and networking requirements are minimal, but a couple
of the main reasons I am running Linux are that I very much like the
advanced, journalling (apparently bulletproof) file systems available
under Linux and of course it's small system footprint.
CheerZ!,
Zaug
