Hi there,
My name is Joel Cornuz, I am from Geneva, Switzerland. As an avid
amateur photographer (check my site down there) I am keeping an eye on
anything related to photography and Linux. I am also maintaining a blog
about it (jcornuz.worldpress.com).
I have tried the latest version (0.6) of Rawstudio and intend to
blog about it as well, but I thought I would share some of my comments
beforehand.
First off, there are lots of think which I like about Rawstudio:
* the general speed: very reactive to arbitrary rotation, quick to
load the next photo. Brilliant, a pleasure to work with.
* not too many features, but the most useful ones: I am amazed at how
few features I use for photo processing and that most program give a
gazillion features that I never use and that clutter the GUI.
* color management
* batch processing: a must - try it once, you can never do without it
anymore :)
So I am really impressed with what I saw - I had kept a mitigated view
of Rawstudio from a previous version, but now I am like "whââââ !
looks promising!"
I also hit a few bugs that I want to report:
* thumbnails (for Pentax PEF files) only show the top 5-10% of the
image the rest is black (maybe not RS fault, but the thumbs are fine
in Nautilus...).
* Saving to tiff (8 or 16 bits) immediately segfaults
* same thing on opening a tiff image (again, maybe something wrong with
the tiff library - ubuntu ships libtiff4)
I tried the standard Ubuntu Gutsy version, tried a fresh compile as
well as a compile on OpenSuse 10.3: the bugs where there in both
cases (in 32 as well as 64bits for Gutsy).
I would also add my 2 cents suggestion:
* possibility to freely move the tools and icon boxes around, maybe
even to make them separate window (Krita does that, I don't know if it
is possible with GTK). It would handy when working with dual screen -
one calibrated screen for the image, the other one for the tools...
I think between what RawStudio is now and what's in the bag for the
next version(s) - (better demosaicing algorithm support, mainly)
you're really up-to-something there. So thanks for rawstudio, this is
really promising!!
Best
Joel
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