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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:37 pm    Post subject: Various tools, mainly for Linux Reply with quote
Some programs I have in addition to GIMP, which used to be my main tool:

1) LightZone (Linux version is free, http://lightcrafts.com/linux/), my favourite tool at the moment, almost everything I need from RAW conversion to finishing. The ease of editing beats all other programs I've ever tried.

2) dcraw (http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/), one of the very best RAW converters (command line only), this was my standard converter before I started using LightZone

3) Rawstudio (http://rawstudio.org/), quite handy RAW conversion program

4) UFRaw (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/), ditto

5) CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/), "Film GIMP", 8/16/32 bits/channel editing, used by many film studios

6) hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/), Panorama photo stitcher, geometry correction

Veijo


PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks.. good post..
Can I use these with Live CD (Linux on CD). Any experience with Live CD.
May be I am naive in multi-OS environment, do I need these on Linux CD or can keep on windows file system.


PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ballu wrote:
Thanks.. good post..
Can I use these with Live CD (Linux on CD). Any experience with Live CD.
May be I am naive in multi-OS environment, do I need these on Linux CD or can keep on windows file system.


Well, I've been linux only since 1993 or so and haven't personally tried to use a liveCD on a Windows computer. You may be able to have the programs on the Windows file system and also to access the image files, but writing the processed files back might be impossible. A better option is to get the free Vmware Player from vmware.com and a linux client package and run linux in a virtual machine on top of the running Windows. An even better option is to install linux on an external USB drive and boot it from there - 200 Gb drives are cheap, and if you split the disk into several partitions, you can use part of it to backup files from your Windows system.

Veijo
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