It's RAW-time!

[vvizard]

Thank God, my life is complete now. I found plugins for The Gimp to let it open Canon-RAW files directly, much like Photoshop (although not quite as slick). Off for school now, and then back home to shoot some raw-pictures =D

[PhotosGuy]

I found plugins for The Gimp to let it open Canon-RAW files directly...
How about a URL?

[vvizard]

Sure.. www.google.com ;)

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ <-- There's the DCraw-site, with a list of plugins for Gimp. The one I'm using now is this one:

http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/RawPhoto

It works great for my use, though some things (like a histogram) would be nice, but I'm sure it's coming soon... oh how nice, a new version today since I downloaded a few hours ago. a _really_ direct link would then be:

http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/rawphoto/rawphoto-20040505.tgz

unpack, untar, make, make install.

Be sure to do the "make install" as your gimp-user, as this is installed on a per-user basis, and in the case you haven't run gimp-2 from the root-user, it will fail if you run make install as root.

[PhotosGuy]

Thanks! There are a few things that GIMP does better than P$hop!

[vvizard]

Yeah. Both got their pro/cons. Gimp is _FREE_ (in many ways), photoshop is not (in any). That's what really counts for most I guess. But yeah, there are both parts of the GUI in Gimp, and some of it's operations that attract me more than photoshop. But yet, there's still lot of things I miss from photoshop, but none "important". Layer effects, filter-previews on most (if not all) filters, a good filebrowser (can't stand the GTK+ one). I usually browse to the correct folder with digikam on one screen, and drag it into gimp on the other for opening files. Although personally, I would rather si a new "Kimp" version using the KDE-widgets =D

Off-topic: there's also a gimp-fork called "Gimp-video" for video-editing, which is used to quite an extend the hollywood. Read about it in one of the endless articles about the animation-studios of Hollywood switching to Linux. It was either Dreamworks, Pixar or Industrial Light & Magic (Starwars) that used, and developed a lot on Gimp-video. Dreamworks also said Photoshop was the only thing now holding them back from a 100% Linux-conversion. And yet, they didn't run photoshop on Mac's, they actually emulated it from Linux through VMware :)