[OT] Re: lightzone

[Keith Antoine]

Ken Moffat wrote:
As an aside:
> There is a linux version of picasa (actually using wine) which is pretty 
> nice for photo organizing. I have been using f-spot, which is native 
> linux and works well, but picasa has a lot of nice features. The one I 
> use, export to web Gallery, is missing in picasa, although it does 
> export as webpage. Of course, the wine usage is a bit windowsesque, but 
> ya takes da bad wit da good.
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Photo organising is something I do my way, no reference to Frank. When I 
go away on trips, about 3 times a year, I take
approx. 1300-2000 shots in RAW, as I would NOT use any other protocol 
again, and weed down to probably 100-300
shots. I used Bibble and CS3 till Lightroom came out. In my humble 
opinion this is an amazing combination and nothing else
comes near them, however am waiting for Bruces' comments on Lightzone now.

I have been trying to go to Linux to try to accomplish something similar 
to what I do Digitally/photographically in windows.
Take in RAW, handle most of the initial work in there, convert to Tif 
and finish off in Photoshop. Next comes printing: have
a real problem here in Linux, I have my camera setup to Adobe R 1998, 
Dual monitors setup with Spyder colorimiter to suit
the camera and lastly the printer Epson 1800 is setup with the paper 
ICC's that I use and the printing is done with Photoshop
not the printer protocols. So I have as much control over printing as 
possible. I also have a DVB card that I have been unable
to setup, plus a beautiful panoramic stitcher for the special Pegasaurus 
tripod head I use for BIG panoramics: Wall size images.

All that aside, as you well know, I am still enamoured of linux but the 
programmers and geeks do not wish to see windows
applications running on their favorite OS of choice. The likes of Wine 
etc have been dismally slow in coming to fruition, VMware
showed some promise, some time ago but I have not used it since. I now 
have a swapand / using the new Mandriva and looking at
Bruces' mails I am going to give VMware another shot, but am wary that 
it will run all I need it to run, such as HDR photographic
software.

Why am I so setup with all this software, well I am selling some of my 
work at last. There is a call for locally produced panoramic,
read larger resolution framed wall hangings. I am remiss in not redoing 
the web pages, http//myqueensland.info, but will do so soon.
I have also been busy with the medical monitoring centre I do work for. 
I have just setup a nice server using Suse 10.2 for answering
their phone lines and voice logging, also trying to wean them off The 
server and workstations in NT4. The big hurdle here is getting to
the database so as we can transfer to an XP environment and use linux 
server to control. The only medical monitoring software is in
windows, nothing in linux, so its a work around for samba.

Sorry its a long mail but thats where I am, as of this minute.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA "Skippy"
SKYPE contact: kantoine
Practising Registered Geriatric: Single Cell Brain in Storage: 
Schools: Places to teach you HOW to teach yourself, they have nothing to do with life's skills.