Saturday, October 27, 2012

Photo editing on Ubuntu... can be done...

These two tools are very impressive... and available for Ubuntu 12.04

  1. Rawstudio
  2. Noise Ninja (2.2 for Linux)
  3. Bibble (now Corel AfterShot Pro ;o(

Rawstudio is a pretty good RAW photo editor. Contrast, exposure etc.  It is blindingly fast at converting RAW to JPG once the editing is done.  I've not used a RAW editor that is so efficient and fast. I really like Phase One but it takes a long time to process the RAW to JPG files.

Noise Ninja is just great and works seamlessly on Windows or Mac.  I've always used the Standalone.  Fortunately, you can still get Noise Ninja for Linux but you have to pick older/alternative downloads.

You can find 5Dmk2 NN Profiles here

Editing, so far, I've only found GIMP.

There are numerous plugins (scripts) for GIMP, but the FX Foundary
Simple resizing etc can be done using GIMP Batch Processing using Davids Batch Processor (DBP) plugin mentioned here.

Another plugin/script for GIMP that is really useful, and frankly, necessary is paste-into-selection (.scm).

Bibble is really fast and works well on Linux/Ubuntu.  Unfortunately, Corel bought it recently, so it will likely die a slow death and be poorly supported. (At the time of writing Bibble supports Canon 5Dmk3 which the current release of RawStudio seems unable to parse the white-balance correctly.  RawStudio developer-version appears to support this change in RAW2 format but I've been unsuccessful in installing/compiling the nightly version of RawStudio on Ubuntu).