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LightZone is also good. I bought the commercial version several years ago before the Light Crafts folded, and it has recently been open sourced. Phil On 21/12/13 12:41, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, L Smith wrote: > >> As a serious (and experienced) amateur photographer, I want to get >> more serious but at the same time avoid getting sucked into the >> photoshop swamp and remain loyal to Linux. I do though find Gimp to >> be a pain, just wondering if there are any viable alternatives to The >> Gimp and what any "serious photographers" here might be using? > > I'm a bumbling enthusiast with a nice (well I think so) DSLR and I use > GIMP. > > However, I've only ever used GIMP... I did use a freebie version of > photoshop for a very short while and didn't like it - presumably > because I've always used GIMP. > > But it delends on what you're trying to achieve - a simple rotation or > small perspective change - easy in the GIMP, re-colouring, or colour > correction - easy, but even thought I've been using it for years and > years, I don't consider myself a gimp power user by any stretch. I > have to read the manual when working out how to create a transparent > background for example. > > I find selective enhancements fiddly too, but I hear later versions > are better - this: > > http://unicorn.drogon.net/pike.jpg > > was a scanned negative which I did a bit of brightening up of the pike > while trying to leave the backgound darker... I remember that being > fiddy, but that was 10+ years ago. (The original scan was a 35MB tiff > file which GIMP seemed OK with all those years back - it printed well > at 10x8 too) > > I think, like a lot of Linux tools, GIMP is just different to it's > Win/Mac "equivalents", that's all, so a little bit of re-training is > to be expected. > > And lets not forget the power of the command-line - when I have a few > 100 pictures to put online - I want to scale and reduce their quality > to make the upload quick, then let people (friends, family) email me > the numbers to give the the high resolution ones, if needed, etc. The > "mogrify" command from imagemagic is the key here - although a word of > warning: It mogrifys the images in-place!!! So take a copy first. > > And in our nice dry summer, this is the bottom of my garden: > http://unicorn.drogon.net/deanBurn4.jpg today it looks like a raging > torrent )-: > > > Gordon > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq