Lightroom is only a partial solution for my needs; it's sufficient for my digital images, but it doesn't hold up with my big ones, and cleaning up dust spots and scratches on film scans is a LOT easier with Photoshop than with Lightroom, even with LR's new brush tools. :(
Photoshop is also the only app out there right now that will load 500MB 16-bit images (though some of the scans have approached 2 GB, I cut back on the size because I only have 4 GB on my machine right now...). There are some compositing packages that would probably be just as capable as Photoshop, but they're all more expensive, and all of the ones that are available for Linux are a LOT more expensive :( ----------------------------- Rakesh Malik My Web Site: http://www.whitecranephotography.com Blog: http://tamerlin.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/baratheon Sent from Seattle, Washington, United States On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Zaug <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
