No doubt you can blow new life to your laptop with a light-weight linux
distro such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
But you will have to get used to the photo software (GIMP,
RawTherapee, Darktable, Shotwell).
I have installed these all but my preference is still also LR with Elements.
Henk
Op 2016-02-13 om 18:03 schreef Mark C:
Thanks, I may give that a try.
Unfortunately, Vista glitches wasted no time in arriving and I'm
suddenly blocked form installing many pieces of software. Clicking on
some .exe installers results in absolutely nothing happening, while
some do install and any installed .exe works fine. I think it may be
due to the anti-virus software blocking something or having corrupted
a registry setting. So, I am again re-installing Vista and if it fails
this time I think it is time to move on to a new device....
There are linux distros that claim to support this laptop, but I have
not been successful in finding Linux software that I like for photo
processing.
Mark
On 2/12/2016 3:26 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Depending on how much processing you want to do on the road, Faststone
Image Viewer is a low cost (as in no cost) option.
If you set up the settings correctly, it will read raw files (rather
than just the embedded previews) and it has a limited range of editing
options (Levels, curves, colour correction etc). It's useful if you
just want to develop a few jpgs while travelling.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, at 01:56 PM, Mark C wrote:
A couple days ago I dropped my 9 year old laptop and the hard drive was
trashed. I replaced it with one that I had on hand and am now
completing
the process of downloading and applying every Windows Vista update
patch
ever issued... One of the few things I still use this laptop for is
processing photos while traveling. My phone now handles email, casual
web browsing, etc.
The laptop has a decent dual core processor (Intel Core 2 T5300) and 4
gigs of ram. I've been using Photoshop CS 5.1 and bridge to review and
do some light processing of photos. K3 DNG files are pretty slow on
this setup, K5 files were not too bad.
So - before I reinstall Photoshop, any suggestions about a leaner and
faster program for basic raw file processing? I don't want to spend
much
money since I could upgrade to a much more competent laptop for a few
hundred dollars. But maybe there is a sleek and simple photo editor out
there.
I'm also wondering if an earlier version of Photoshop might be the
sweet
spot in terms of light footprint.
Any suggestions?
Mark
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