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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:58 pm    Post subject: Open Source & Free Photo/Image editing/workflow software Reply with quote
Hi,
I want to start this live thread for keeping a database of open source and free (but stable) Photograph and/or Image editing/workflow softwares.
Try not to post any Shareware or Trial software.

I know we all have paid for one another software, but still you may need these great pieces around. Sometimes during traveling, If you want to use friends computer, these links can help you...

And try to put the name of software in the subject... again just a request.. nothing like hard and fast rule...


PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:02 pm    Post subject: GIMP Reply with quote
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Every one might have heard about this. One of the biggest photoshop competitor (in photo editing).

http://www.gimp.org/

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:06 pm    Post subject: GIMPShop: GIMP variant Reply with quote
GIMPShop: If you are used PhotoShop, GimpShop is the best bet. It provides the skin of PhotoShop on the top of GIMP software.

http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

Seems like, can be run on USB thumb drive.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice idea, Ballu!

Here are my recommendations:

1) Photofiltre: compact and quite versatile http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm

2) Paint.NET: really nice and quite powerful http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html

3) IrfanView: one of my favourite freeware viewers http://www.irfanview.net/

4) XnView: is able to process a huge number of file types, even strange ones http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

5) Picasa: very useful freeware http://www.ds-tech.biz/pic-download/en.html


Carsten


PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For those who want to import / export / modify EXIF data, I would recommend :

Exiftool : Available as a Perl script (any platform) or as a standalone application for Windows, I found it very powerful and very convenient for batch jobs.
gpsPhoto : Able to incorporate gps positions to pictures exif data, from a GPX tracklog. That's a Perl script used in association with Exiftool.
Edit 24/07/2009 : Exiftool can now take care of the geotagging part as well (The same way gpsPhoto does).
Grazer : Specifically designed for geotagging picture, this program is known to work very well, but I have not tried it myself.
Exif Editor : More friendly user interface, also suitable for batch jobs.
Edit 24/07/2009 : While Exif Editor is still available, the author came up with another program called Meta Editor that requires .NET framework 3 but can do a lot more.
Exifer : Graphical interface again, less powerful than previous entries, but still pretty cool to have a look at, or alter some values (missing aperture and focal lengths for example Smile ).

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
My all-in-one-recommendation is FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER.

For vieweing/cropping/batch-renaming, watermarking and
even raw converting,
this tools does a great job.

Go here, for details and download:
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Forgot to mention, that it supports
Chinese(Trad), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish and Spanish



"FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG). "


PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
wow! Thank you Hasan!


PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you Hasan!
I have not tried the editing functions yet. But even as an image browser, it has a great feature, that is, the instant left-click zoom+pan on previews.
VERY smart and useful.
Browser is fast also.
I think it will become my standard image browser.


PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You're welcome.
In my opinion, this tool is awesome.
It has almost everything, I need for editing & viewing my images.

There is a function, which can't be mentioned enough:

1. Go in fullscreen mode, by double-clicking an image.
2. Now, move your mouse to the top, bottom, left, right.

Every direction will come up with its special pop-ups. Wink
Top - thumbnails & file operations,
Bottom - a Navigator
Left - editing features.
Right - file information (EXIF etc.)


PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OptikVerve Labs Virtual Photographer

PC only suite of Photoshop plug-ins.

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/


PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
GREYCstoration Open source algorithm for image denoising and interpolation.

A very good tool available for linux, Windows and Mac

http://www.greyc.unicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/index.html

See the rather convincing examples at

http://www.greyc.unicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/demonstration.html

- removing the cage from a zoo photo is one of the real tricks if denoising isn't enough.

NB. when you click on a thumbnail, you'll see the original image when the mouse pointer isn't on the picture and the denoised/restored/resized picture when the mouse pointer is on the picture - move the mouse in and out.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fre good and havent discovered all the possibilities yet is Picasa.
Its from google and free.
It even reads pentaxs raw data.

Guido


http://picasa.google.com/download/


PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
katzer wrote:
The only issue I have with GIMP is that it is an 8bit per channel software. For processing jpeg it is fine, but for processing RAW files or TIFF files with more than 8bits per channel it is inadequate and as far as I know the only option is photo$hop... Sad


Try Picture Window Pro... one of the best photo editing if you want to work on higher bits per channel... not free but cheaper than photo$0p


PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
katzer wrote:
The only issue I have with GIMP is that it is an 8bit per channel software. For processing jpeg it is fine, but for processing RAW files or TIFF files with more than 8bits per channel it is inadequate and as far as I know the only option is photo$hop... Sad

For linux there is CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/ , 8/16/32 bits per channel as required), and LightZone (
http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/ ). I used to use dcraw (http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ ) for RAW conversion and CinePaint for editing until I came across LightZone, which has been my main and almost exclusive tool ever since.

For Windows, there isn't yet a really working version of CinePaint. There is the main, commercial version of LightZone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/index.html ), not free, but well worth its price. It is a photographer's tool and thus lacks all the painting options of Photoshop. This Windows version is more advanced than the free Linux version.

Veijo


PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
vilva wrote:
GREYCstoration Open source algorithm for image denoising and interpolation.

....

Veijo


Superb!... Impressive what can be done with this wonderful tool!...
I've spent a lot of time looking at the examples.
Thanks, Veijo!
Best regards,
Jes.


PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
vilva wrote:

LightZone (http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/ ). I used to use dcraw (http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ ) for RAW conversion and CinePaint for editing until I came across LightZone, which has been my main and almost exclusive tool ever since.

For Windows, there isn't yet a really working version of CinePaint. There is the main, commercial version of LightZone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/index.html ), not free, but well worth its price. It is a photographer's tool and thus lacks all the painting options of Photoshop. This Windows version is more advanced than the free Linux version.

Veijo


I think there is now more advanced LightZone for linux too... That link doesn't work anymore... That's the link where I was looking for LightZone for linux first but
now they have new Beta 3.3 for linux with HDR and all. Razz
http://www.lightcrafts.com/linux/


PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
tanheis wrote:
now they have new Beta 3.3 for linux with HDR and all. Razz
http://www.lightcrafts.com/linux/


The 3.3 version is generally much better than the previous 2.4, but it is only a beta and will expire at the end of January, and the company do not yet have definite plans for the linux version after that - it is quite possible that there will be no version at all, there could be a free version, or there could be a normal, commercial version. I have only some very minor complaints and would probably buy a normally priced commercial version if one were available.

The HDR thing isn't the normal multi-shot HDR but just dynamic range compression of a single shot using a somewhat involved algorithm, quite handy at times.

Veijo


PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
vilva wrote:
GREYCstoration Open source algorithm for image denoising and interpolation.

A very good tool available for linux, Windows and Mac

http://www.greyc.unicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/index.html

See the rather convincing examples at

http://www.greyc.unicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycstoration/demonstration.html

- removing the cage from a zoo photo is one of the real tricks if denoising isn't enough.

NB. when you click on a thumbnail, you'll see the original image when the mouse pointer isn't on the picture and the denoised/restored/resized picture when the mouse pointer is on the picture - move the mouse in and out.

Veijo


Veijo, the cage-removing algorithm is awesome! In fact, the whol program is quite nice. Thanks for the lead!


PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:41 am    Post subject: GIMP use here but newbie Reply with quote
I have GIMP running on my Mac by installing KDE desktop on the Mac. I of course have GIMP on my Linux computer. The learning curve is high. Can you recommend a good book for learning GIMP? Even web sites are ok but I prefer learning from books. I am new to GIMP but can open photos and edit them with GIMP. Best of all I can pay for GIMP if I want by donating.

If you have to have photoshop try buying an older version on ebay. I have photoshop 4 for mac probably did not pay more than 20 dollars used on ebay for it. Good reason to keep an old Motorola Mac around.


PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another Linux fan! Great! Welcome!


PostPosted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LightZone 3.6.1 is available for linux too with all features as Mac / Windows
versions...

I downloaded 30-day trial for linux and made a script to run it...

rm -fr /home/username/.java
rm -fr /home/username/.lzncache
/home/username/LightZone/./LightZone

2 first lines removes all the configuration / save directories for java
and lightzone... so after that it will be like a "clean" new install of LightZone... So it thinks it's new install and gives always 30-days more
time everytime running it...

line 3 runs LightZone executable from that directory after erasing all trial data...
remember to give execution permission for the script before trying to run it... if that file is lightzone... then chmod +x lightzone
then just typing ./lightzone will run it..
I think I could check if I can leave all the configures and find just the file
where it records trial days... Smile

It is impossible to make ANY trial program for linux to run as a trial Very Happy
make new user and use trial again..
Because whole system fors as a multiuser operation system... So it's like a clean install when changing user and if knowing where specific program saves data you can remove it... usually very easy because it can be only in the root of home folder starting with .
like .mozilla for mozilla programs... all folders starting with dots are
"hidden" so they do not show normally...

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
tanheis wrote:
LightZone 3.5 is available for linux too with all features as Mac / Windows
versions...

I downloaded 30-day trial for linux and made a script to run it...

rm -fr /home/username/.java
rm -fr /home/username/.lzncache
/home/username/LightZone/./LightZone

2 first lines removes all the configuration / save directories for java
and lightzone... so after that it will be like a "clean" new install of LightZone... So it thinks it's new install and gives always 30-days more
time everytime running it...

line 3 runs LightZone executable from that directory after erasing all trial data...
remember to give execution permission for the script before trying to run it... if that file is lightzone... then chmod +x lightzone
then just typing ./lightzone will run it..
I think I could check if I can leace all the configures and find just the file
where it records trial days... Smile

It is impossible to make ANY trial program for linux to run as a trial Very Happy
make new user and use trial again..
Because whole system fors as a multiuser operation system... So it's like a clean install when changing user and if knowing where specific program saves data you can remove it... usually very easy because it can be only in the root of home folder starting with .
like .mozilla for mozilla programs... all folders starting with dots are
"hidden" so they do not show normally...


Tanheis, thanks a lot for sharing this!
Do you kow if it does work with the new version 3.6.1?

Thanks!
Jes.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jesito wrote:


Tanheis, thanks a lot for sharing this!
Do you kow if it does work with the new version 3.6.1?

Thanks!
Jes.


Yes I use 3.6.1...
I corrected it... I tested it with 3.6.1 version.
Works


PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
vilva wrote:
GREYCstoration Open source algorithm for image denoising and interpolation.


Interesting software. The fact that its primarily a GIMP plugn, and GIMP is 8-bit only, makes it a non-starter for me. I have settled on a 16-bit workflow until the final JPEG step.
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