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Re: [LUG] Protography with Linux

 

On 21 Dec 2013, at 14:44, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
>> On 21 Dec 2013, at 10:50, peter walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> tool with limited editing. If I do want to do serious reworking of the image I 
>> tend to use Gimp but that still does not have 16 bit capacity yet (AFAIK).
> 
> I checked because I knew some gimp forks used in the film industry were 16 bit 
> colour with alpha.

Yes, that was CinePaint. I tried it way back but when I was using it it was limited 
in what you could do with stills.

> 
> Seems the main change in 2.10 will be CEGL back end, so it will all be 16 bit 
> colour. PPAs of the dev version 2.9 are around for Ubuntu, but looks like dragging 
> plugins up to date has slowed release.

It’s been a long time coming :-)



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