Linux for Designers

Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work with HDR images, is updated to version 1.9.2. This Version tries to fix several filename encoding bugs.

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 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.

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.

Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work with HDR images. It is updated to version 1.89 and shipped with new toolbar options and some bugfixes.

Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work with HDR images, is updated to version 1.86, just some small fixes.

Qtpfsgui, a graphical user interface that enables users to work on hdr images, is updated to version 1.7 now:

• improved EXIF-tags check
  
• restored PFS stream fileformat compatibility
  
• The only LDR image format supported is now JPEG
  
• Bugfixes