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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

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RAW News

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UFRaw
is released as version 0.16 as a standalone programm and as a GIMP plugin including more OpenMP (multiprocessor) support, updated translations and mor commandline options.

Bibble 5 Preview 2
Bibble Labs has released a 2nd preview of their upcoming RAW software Bible 5. Bibble is a commercial RAW converter.

Rawtherapee
will become Open Source Software under the GPL terms :smile:

DarkTable
is released as beta 0.3 including a improved color management.

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.

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.

Rawstudio 1.2

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Rawstudio 1.2 hit the streets. The developers described it as "adds a lot of small incremental improvements like sorting photos based on various photo data, more verbose tooltips for thumbnails and threaded loading of thumbnails and the usual swarm of 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 at Launchpad too.

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.

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.

RawTherapee 2.4 Beta4

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As a Xmas gift the 4th beta of RawTherapee, a imageging software for photographers, is now available. This beta brings again various bugfixes:
* crash on save-as (a new progress indicator dialog has also been introduced)
* ISO is now recognized in rw2 files
* autoexp with clipping=0 is working
* fixed the permanent delete & empty trash crash when the image in editor is deleted
* detail window label when zooming
* better jpeg error handling
* Canon 1Ds tiffs and Kodak dcr files are supported again
* new naming scheme for pp2 files (the old one is kept for loading only for compatibility)

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

RawTherapee 2.4 Beta3

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The third beta ofRawTherapee, a imageging software for photographers, is now available. This beta brings again various bugfixes:
* dcraw updated to version 8.89
* improvements in internalization
* an exif saving problem in jpeg output
* corrupted saving of large tiff files
* problems with preview zoom when images of the same size are opened
* corrupt output color profile in the saved images
* incorrect permissions for the "converted" directory under linux
* auto and spot wb for sRaw and linear dng fixed

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

The p-Code Machine

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Besides Linux Photography it seems that The p-Code Machine is another quite interesting blog about Linux and photography :smile:

RawTherapee 2.4 Beta2

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RawTherapee, a imageging software for photographers, is now available as version 2.4 Beta2. This beta brings various bugfixes. RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author.

Bibble 5 for Linux coming soon

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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.

Lightzone 3.6.1 for Linux

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Light Crafts has released Lightzone 3.6.1, a professional photo editor supporting 16bit image depth editing for RAW and HDR images, for Linux. You can download a trial too.

Rawstudio 1.1 final

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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.

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.

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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Qtpfsgui 1.9.2

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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.

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.