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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "imageing"

RawTherapee 2.4 Bugfix release

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A bugfix release of RawTherapee is available. Rwatherapee 2.4.1 ships with:
* Updated dcraw 8.97/1.428
* Updated translations
* Many bugs fixed

RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author.

Gimp 2.8 first release

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The first development snapshot of Gimp 2.8 is available: Gimp 2.7.0. There are a lot of nice, new upcoming features:
* a reworked, much more flexible text tool
* new saving/ export option
* export plugin for X11 mouse cursors and JPEG2000 file format
* rotation of brushes and additional enhancements to the brush dynamics engine
* tagging for resources
...and much more.
Check out the release notes too.

But there are much more interesting things we can await in Gimp 2.8:
* Finish merging of the GSoC 2006 vector layer stuff
* Merge the GSoC 2009 projects for brush dynamics and improved SIOX.
* Add a better set of default resoures
* Provide default tags for the default resources

Gimp 2.6.7 update

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I mentioned the upcoming Gimp 2.6.7 in my post about Gegl 0.1.0. Now it is available with a lot of bug fixes and updated translations too. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at GetDeb.net

F-Spot 0.6 is out

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F-Spot is my favorite photo management software at all. Now it is available as version 0.6:
* no longer depends on libeog
* fighting against deprecation, on the path to gnome3
* new viewer widget
* new widget showing folders organisation
* new Preference dialog
* db and config moved to .config (or whatever is pointed by xdg config)
* tons of bugs fixed (really)
* updated translations

Check out Ruben Vermeersch blog post about this release too! To bad there is no Ubuntu Jaunty built at the moment (please can some build it :smile:)

UPDATE 090810
Now a Ubuntu Deb package of F-Spot 0.6.0 is available (thanx to Carnophage for the hint).

Bugfix Release: MyPaint 0.7.1

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1 1/2 monther after the art/ sketch/ illustration app MyPaint 0.7 hit the streets, the team published a bugfix release now.
MyPaint is a quite fast and easy to use (you have to learn the key shortcuts) and offers a lot of brush controls. As an example David Revoy who is the concept artist for “Project Durian” (a Blender Open Movie) uses MyPaint to create stunning and beautiful images.
A Deb package for Ubuntu is available at GetDeb.net

F-Spot again

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In my last posts i reported about the new upcoming features (geolocation etc.) of F-Spot. Meanwhile the development goes on and a lot of new interesting stuff:
* Folder bars
* Dialog redesign

RawTherapee 2.4 Final

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After some weeks of the release candidate RawTherapee 2.4 reaches now the final state. The changes since 2.3 are:
* Exif/IPTC support
* Theme switching
* Improved GUI layout
* Improved filebrowser
  - Ranking support
  - Basic file operations possible (delete, remove, rename)
  - Filtering based on Exif data
  - Configurable thumbnail caching
  - Live thumbnails (showing the images in the processed state)
  - Resizable thumbnails
  - Configurable thumbnail layout (left - right, top - down)
* Basic batch processing
  - Controllable workqueue
  - Copy/Paste processing profiles (or only parts of them)
  - Direct sending of images to the workqueue
* Improved auto-exposure and spot white balance
* "Send to Editor" feature (Gimp, Photoshop, custom editor)

RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author. The development of RawTherapee is healthy a first alpha of 2.5 is promised in a month.

GEGL 0.1.0 and Gimp 2.6.7

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The Generic Graphics Library GEGL is now available as version 0.1.0. All changes of GEGL can be found at the release post. GEGL is part of the core libraries of the image editor Gimp too.
A important hint of the developers is that GEGL 0.1.0 didn't work with Gimp 2.6.6, as they wrote "This is not because GEGL would be incompatible, but rather because of a stupid bug in the run-time version check.". So we all have to wait for Gimp 2.6.7 which will ship with some other bugfixes too :smile:

F-Spot next steps

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Ruben Vermeersch answers about: Is F-Spot Live and kicking?
Yes it is :smile: There are several real interesting things going on:
* Mike Gemünde is currently cleaning and refactoring quite a lot of IconView code
* Geotagging is coming (Mike Gemünde is working on it too)
* Paul Wellner Bou is working on a nice extension to compare different image versions
* Lorenzo Milesi is working on export support to tabblo and taking care of bugzilla
* Ruben Vermeersch himself working on prototyping some stuff related to progressive image loading and preloading. He is also looking into RAW processing

Read the complete post and check out the screenies!

Flash SWF Export for GIMP with Animation Support

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP again. This time i added animation support. Any layer of an GIMP image will be exported as a frame of an Flash SWF animation (not a Flash Video FLV).
Later i will add support for Windows too.

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Gimp Flash SWF Exporter Update

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I updated my Flash SWF Export for GIMP. Now it can generate the XHTML page where the exported flash is embeded.

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Flash SWF Export for GIMP

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For image conversion and an easy way keeping the content of our lastest Flash project up to date i wrote today an Flash SWF Export Script for Gimp.

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MyPaint 0.6

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Charlie pointed me to the art/ sketch/ illustration program MyPaint (Thanks!), which looks indeed promising. It is quite fast and easy to use (you have to learn the key shortcuts) and offers a lot of brush controls. Version 0.6 shipped now with layers and popup color selector.
You can grab a Ubuntu Deb package of MyPaint at GetDeb.net.

RawTherapee 2.4 RC2

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The 2nd release candidate of RawTherapee 2.4 is available now. Just minor fixes:
* dcraw update to 8.93/1.421
* gtk/gtkmm update in the win32 version
* fixed installer/uninstaller
* fixed several small bugs
RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author.

Gimp 2.6.6 update

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And another update to make GIMP 2.6 series fast and stable. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Get your Deb packages for Ubuntu at GetDeb.net - this time for Hardy too :smile:

Gimp XCF support for Gnome

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Once i was very happy getting a message from Jan Dudek about his PSD PixBuf loader for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. It makes it possible viewing such files with any Gnome application supporting PixBuf loaders.
Now i'm very happy again because Stephane Delcroix did the same for Gimp XCF files. So Nautilus, gThumb, F-Spot, EOG etc. can display the open standard and the industrie standard for layered image documents :smile:
The bad thing is i didn't get it running at the moment. May someone can create a Deb package for it :wink:.

LGM 2009 - Support it!

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You love professional open source graphics software? Then support the Libr Graphics Meeting 2009.
At this event developers and users can get together to share ideas and visions. This time it took place from 6-9 May in Montreal (Canada). Your donation is needed to make it possible developers of important projects can be there.

» Donate now!
Click here to lend your support to: Support the Libre Graphics Meeting and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Phatch - Photo Batch Processor 0.1.6 Download

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I know Phatch a photo batch processor 0.1.6 is not a real fresh release. But i found the Deb archives for various version of Ubuntu at Launchpad. The download links at the homepage are still broken.

RawTherapee 2.4 RC

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I know that isn't a fresh news: RawTherapee 2.4 is available as a release candidate:
* crash on closing the progress dialog fixed
* confusion when pp2 files of both the old and new naming convention found
* less tall "Preferences" dialog to fit the small screen of netbooks
* a new option in the "Save As" dialog: put to the head of the queue
* fixed non-working image saving when path contains international characters
* much fewer maze artifacts for Olympus raw files with hphd and ahd demosaicing methods
* more keyboard shortcuts (see the popup menu in the file browser)
* dcraw updated to 8.90/1.417
* updated rawzor support (now for 64 bit linux version, too)
RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author.

Gimp 2.6.5 update

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Again another update to make GIMP fast and stable. Deb packages for Ubuntu can be found at GetDeb.net.