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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "camera"

RawTherapee 2.4 Milestone 2

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After the first step ahead to RawTherapee 2.4 now 2nd milestone is reached:
* Caching of thumbnails: file browser is now faster than ever
* Ranking in file browser
* Filter by EXIF
* Move to trash/ delete permanently/ rename functionality in file browser
* Separating the core and the GUI for a better future development
* Several bugfixes

The bad news: no download available this time, just a status report.

Pimp your F-Spot

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I'm sure many know the photo management application F-Spot and I'm sure just some knows that you can pimp it with extensions :smile: At the bottom of the extension page is described how to get the extensions installed.

Niepce Digital Announcement

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With Niepce Digital a new tool simliar to Adobe Ligthroom or Apple Aperture is in development. Hm, i don't know if this really a great news or just another project start.
I'm more a fan of supporting and improving existing projects like F-Spot, Gimp or UfRaw instead of have another half finished peace of software. Anyway, we will hope the best :smile:

Working with Raws: UFRaw - GIMP - Greycstoration

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Lightzone 3.5 for Linux

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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.

First milestone of RawTherapee 2.4

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Based on a lot of bug reports the DevTeam reaches the first milestone of RawTherapee 2.4:
* Full EXIF support & EXIF Browser
* IPTC tag support
* More input ICC profile options
* A new highlight recovery method
* Histogram now corresponds to cropped area
* Runtime theme switching
* Lots of other minor bugfixes und Tweaks

More details at the RawTherapee website. You can download this milestone too. Any bug and suggestion can be reported at the forum.
RawTherapee is not open source but you can specify yourself what you like to donate to the author.

Rawstudio 1.0 final

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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.

Rawstudio 1.0 Release Candidate

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Rawstudio steps from 0.7 to the release candidate of 1.0. 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 too.

Interviewed: Anders Brander (RawStudio)

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Linux Photography did an interview with Anders Brander the author of RawStudio.

RawTherapee 2.3

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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.

Lightzone 3.4 Beta for Linux

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Light Crafts has released a new beta of Lightzone, a professional photo editor supporting 16bit image depth editing for RAW and HDR images, for Linux as a beta of the upcoming version 3.4.

Rawstudio 0.7

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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.

Lightzone 3.3 Beta for Linux

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Light Crafts has released Lightzone, a professional photo editor supporting 16bit image depth and HDR images, for Linux as a beta of the upcoming version 3.3.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.0

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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.

RAW-Updates again

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The most famous RAW tools UFRaw and Qtpfsgui are updated.
UFRaw 0.13 (based on DCRaw v 8.80) brings many new features and a lot of bugfixes.
Same Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 did, plus it is available now on MacOS X too.
If you are using Ubuntu you can grab a deb archive Ufraw here.

RAW-Updates again

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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.

F-Spot 0.4

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F-Spot a full-featured personal photo management application is released as the new version 0.4. this release includes
  • Size and visibility of icons
  • new tango icons everywhere. supports themability.
  • Updated Query widgets and reworked Timeline widget
  • Start using custom exif code
  • Queued sqlite commands and support for background jobs
  • Import Rolls support and filtering on rolls
  • Extensions support via Mono.Addins
  • Updated translations and a lot of bugfixes

Get a deb archive of it!

RAW-Updates

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The most famous RAW tools UFRaw and Qtpfsgui are updated.
UFRaw 0.12 (based on DCRaw v 8.77) brings now full color management workflow (camera, display and output profiles), new transformation tools and a lot of bugfixes.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.11 brings a lot of smaller enhancements and fixes too.