On Mon, August 6, 2012 6:03 am, C. F. Howlett wrote: > A little insight into the whole photo processing theme > > Linux Tools for Serious > Photographers<http://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/>
Aside from being digikam centric :) It does mention some other kinds of tools I had not thought of. - digikam - right off, this brings in a lot of libs, 118 packages and 110Mb when compressed. And it seems from the article that while it can do a lot of things, the list of other utilities does a better job. That is each small program that does only one thing does a better job of that one thing than the big program that does everything. - Entangle - allows the computer to control the camera ... everything the camera controls can do the computer can do. Cool. We can't include this (yet) as there is no package. But I see we do have: - coriander which seems (from it's short description) to do the same thing. It only pulls in one extra lib. Uses 503kb of disk space, packages are 151kb (small foot print). It does not show up on the menu, rather it is one of those things that auto starts when a camera is connected. Has anyone had experience with it? Does anyone have a camera that is tether-able they can try it with? Are there other applications in our repo I have missed that do similar things. - Rapid Photo Downloader - This one just keeps showing up in everyones workflow. Probably there is a good reason for that. - geeqie - The other workflow we were looking at uses gthumb for the same thing. I think we use darktable. They say that geeqie is "lightening fast" (same comments about gthumb BTW) shotwell doesn't seem to do so well at these things, it does not offer the easy editing of photo meta editing... at least I find it less than convenient... These three programs do the same thing. They all support raw images, though it is questionable to what extent.. gthumb seems to offer the best comment editing. geeqie offers none that I can see. All of them offer sorting though. geeqie and gthumb should be added to the extra-installer anyway and the workflow docs should do a compare of features and uses. - darktable - we already ship this. It seems to do more than a lot of other apps. - GTKRawGallery - not really an option for us (not in repos) and seems to be covered well by darktable anyway. - rawstudio and ufraw - seem to be mostly raw import/conversion utilities we ship RawTherapee which does this and more. - photivo - we can't get - fotoxx - I think is already on the extra install button (we ship darktable) Len's notes: I downloaded and tried some of these. It seems most of the workflow is already covered by what we have. Rapid Photo Downloader keeps showing up and I think we should add it. The only other hole in our apps is a tethering tool. If some one has a tether-able camera, I would be interested in your thoughts on coriander. It is kind of a sleeper as there is no menu entry, but I can see something like this being very useful for small object photography or even portraits. It would also have application in animation using solid objects like claymation for example. Comments please. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
