Linux for Designers

Bibble Laps will introduce Bibble 5 at the Photokina (Cologne, Germany) on Sept 23rd. Bibble suuports Open RAW and is a commercial workflow software/ digital RAW converter to edit/ modify RAW files. Details about Bibble 5 can be found at the website.

Rawstudio 1.1 is out, the developers described it with "This release adds the much needed EXIF awareness. It also adds support for a lot of new cameras, as has many bugfixes."
Rawstudio is an open-source program to read and manipulate RAW images from most digital cameras. If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can grab a Deb package for Feisty, Edgy, Gutsy and Hardy too.

Light Crafts has released Lightzone 3.5, a professional photo editor supporting 16bit image depth editing for RAW and HDR images, for Linux. You can download a trial too.

After a very short period of the release candidate now Rawstudio 1.0 final is available. New in this release are:
* new sharpen-tool
* exporting to GIMP for further editing
* a nice in-window directory selector with optional recursive loading
* GUI has been spiced up to look much more modern
* Rawstudio has been translated to more than 10 languages
* a ton of bugfixes and minor enhancements
Rawstudio is an open-source program to read and manipulate RAW images from most digital cameras. If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can grab a Deb package for Feisty, Edgy, Gutsy and Hardy too.

Besides Lightzone a very fine imageging software for photographers is RawTherapee. It's now release as version 2.3 with new features like:
# Image resizing tool
# Vignetting correction tool
# Local contrast enhancement tool
# Auto Crop and Fill option in the rotation tool
# Multi-language support
# Channel mixer
# Deconvolution based sharpening
# VNG-4 interpolation of dcraw to reduce maze on Olympus raw images
# Selectable guide lines when cropping
# Enhanced auto and spot white balance
# Support for new cameras (DCRaw 8.82/1.398)

RawTherapee is not open source but you can specify what you like to donate to the author. Besides the new version a new website is online too.

Rawstudio 0.7, an open-source program to read and manipulate RAW images from most digital cameras, is available for download. This release get's more Cairo-based graphics and a ton of bugfixes as usual.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can grab a Deb package too.

Qtpfsgui a GUI app to work with HDR images is released as version 1.9.0 now. Besides bugfixes and improved features a HDR creation wizard and a commandline interface were added.
Since 1.8.12 Qtpfsgui is available for Mac and Windows too.

The most famous RAW tools UFRaw and Qtpfsgui are updated again.
UFRaw 0.12.1 (based on DCRaw v 8.77) is just a bugfix release. A Deb archive is available.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 brings a lot of smaller enhancements and is now available on MacOS X too. Grab here your Deb archive for Ubuntu.