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Linux Alternatives To Apple's Aperture
somethingkindawierd writes "An experiment focusing on open source tools for Ubuntu Linux to compete with Aperture on the Mac. The author didn't think he would find a worthwhile open source solution, but to his surprise he found some formidable raw processing tools. A good read for any Linux fan or photographer looking for capable and inexpensive tools"
I stopped caring when the author said that he crops "all" his photos to the same (non-standard) ratio.
Closed, done. Sorry.
You didn't run a backup for an entire year?
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
we lost a year of work because Aperature's doesn't generate unique filenames for its images across subdirectories and when you export it overlays them...
Why didn't she just restore from the backups you've been helping her keep?
It also allows you to rate your photos which is immensely important when you come back from a shoot with lots of photos. It also allows you to group and stack photos...their thumbnails are literally stacked and you can unstack them and restack them, along with promoting photos within a stack. A file manager is no substitute for a photo manager when you are a photographer.
But that's part of the shortfall...
Lightroom and Aperture are so good BECAUSE they are integrated.
There is nothing really in Lightroom that you can't do with Photoshop - but the way it's integrated and how it's able to work with / organise large collections of photos makes Lightroom one of the most run Apps on my Mac.
As long as Linux doesn't offer a good competitor to Lightroom / Aperture, I will keep doing my photography stuff on the Mac...
A line needs to be drawn somewhere..
Us geeks like the CLI even today because we know that the CLI is much more efficint for the kind of task that we do. It is quicker to do many tasks from the CLI than the click>wait app to launch> Click the Tab> Select The Option> Apply> Close. But we need to remember that the population of average user outruns the population of us geeks.
The developers need to continue designing better GUI apps without compromising on the CLI bundle that we still use.
By the way I havent seen any distro that has been dumping any CLI feature in favour of GUI.
Speak for yourself, and don't try to speak for "us geeks". There are a lot of geeks who use the GUI for almost everything. Yes, I like to have tcsh available on my MacOS Terminal (I know some prefer bash), but the idea that preferring a GUI costs me geek cred (finally!) died over a decade ago.
E pluribus unum
Not only that, he also blames the OS for it.
Actually, no.
You point digikam to the root folder of your photos. It will create a single file there consisting of it's database.
No importing of folders necessary. :-)
Maybe you had it confused with f-spot?
Give it a try. You'll really love it and never go back. :-)
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Well, GIMP doesn't actually support RAW formats, and for good reason. They are both unnecessarily manifold and proprietary.
That's not "good reason". That's just lacking capability.
Even the most basic cameras generally offer support for uncompressed images (usually in some sort of TIFF encapsulation), and if this is what you need, then use it.
You really don't know what raw files are even used for, do you? Very few cameras these days support TIFF, and that's because TIFF has none of the benefits of raw CCD data files, and is even larger than them.
(Technically, DNG raw files are TIFFs, but those are not in any way widely supported yet.)
You aren't much of a geek, then. Preferring the GUI for CERTAIN TASKS is a good thing. But the GUI is simply not the best interface for everything. There are some things that are much better done with the CLI, which is what I think the GPP was getting at. Don't stop development of the command-line interface and tools simply because we want to appeal to grandmas and other people scared of the command line.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
OK, it's been a joke/cliche/truism for years about OSS packages with crappy names, but... damn. I think we have a winner. 6 consonants in a row and two vowels at the end. No one will over beat that. It looks like someone's cat walked over the keyboard just as the owner was clicking 'create new project' on SourceForge.
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