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Professional Photographers Using Linux?
thesun asks: "I'm a freelance writer and photographer and I'm wondering what Pro Photographers have done in regards to color matching and scanning under Linux, especially when going from slides to digital. I just can't get anything close to a good image when I scan a slide. They're blurry and the colors are so off that doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming. Are other Pros (or talented amateurs) having similar problems? Are there solutions out there I haven't found? (Sorry, I can't dump thousands into a piece of hardware---I'm looking for a way to make the most of my Epson Perfection 2400 with transparency adapter)."
Why not just project them onto a flat surface in a dark room and take a picture with a digital camera?
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Would this be a good time to bring up the really crappy GUI in GIMP? that always seems to insight "interesting" discussion.
... doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming.
... if you just need to apply the same correction to each file, why not whip up a little shell script to do it all for you? Doing it once or a thousand times isn't any different unless it requires some kind of mouse gestures (and then again, even those can be automated, just not as cleanly).
I sense Windows-centric thinking (correct me if I'm wrong). Scripting is utterly essential to Unix (and therefore Linux)
Of course when I say Linux, I actually mean GNU/Linux + OSS designed for Linux. The world just says "Linux" and so will I -- kiss my ass.
Linux is an adaptable and growing lump of putty and every time someone asks a question such as the one I'm responding to, someone else comes up with an answer that either already exists or another project is born... or both. I think beyond all else, that's one of the coolest things about Linux -- it's the community, not the OS.
It was pointed out that people stayed away from BSD variants for reasons that were not technical. Otherwise, BSD and variants would have been light-years ahead of Linux and essentially, there would be no Linux today if it weren't for people wanting a free Unix to build on while staying away from BSD. So now the focus is on Linux... it's the focus that matters, not whether it's Linux or not.
In any case, there's sufficient momentum and I'm hopful you get the answer you seek.
Why is this modded flamebait? Photoshop works excellently under Mac OS X, as do almost all the scanner drivers I've tried.
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