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Darktable: From Linux/Mac to Windows

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:32:38 +0000

Really good news for the end of 2017: The free software Darktable arrives finally on Windows. On MacOS and on Linux, Darktable had gathered a beautiful fame and a nice following as free replacement for Lightroom. Even better: Many consider it not only as free but as highly competent at the task. Obviously, in the current context of removal of Lightroom from the list of software programs you can purchase as always at Adobe (Now, you need to pay a monthly or yearly license for the right to keep using your image library with Lightroom – It started with Photoshop, but Adobe show such a huge increase of its profits that they extended the idea to Lightroom despite previous denials…).

With Darktable, like with Lightroom, you can organize, store, visualize. But you also can modify/edit your photo pictures (in RAW as in JPEG), including in a non-destructive way.

It’s worth trying by yourself (with this kind of price, there is no downside).

Download Darktable (in English).
Download Darktable (en français).

It’s been years that I was tracking this product with great care. Here is the best photo news of 2017 (it will compensate the worst one from Adobe Lightroom).

Gimp links

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:14:48 +0000

I don’t often write about Gimp, the free software image and photo edition software which is avbailabel both for Linux and PC-Windows. But, nevertheless, I keep noticing bits of useful information that I’d like to share with you if you are a user of Gimp.

Selective Noise Reduction with GIMP — Repairing Noisy Skies pour une meilleure gestion des réparations locales des photos.

How to Enable Photoshop Save For Web Feature in GIMP (minor improvement)
How to replace a sky with GIMP, suit les mêmes principes mais pour un nettoyage définitif (par remplacement)
L’accentuation avec Gimp
How To Remove Red Eyes With GIMP, pour nettoyer les yeux rouges.
How to Find and Use Scripts in Gimp
How to turn a photo into a card with GIMP
6 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know! (rounded corners, cropping, red eye removal, image size change, file size reduction)
GAP is a collection of GIMP plugins that make it possible to create animations as sequences of single frames
Opening RAW Images In GIMP with UFRaw For Windows – The Basics

In the end, I would sum it up with the 10 Reasons GIMP is Better Than Photoshop:

GIMP is free
GIMP is small
GIMP is fast and stable
GIMP is more user-friendly
Anybody can modify the code and develop plug-ins
It has a better management for automated actions
GIMP opens, edits and saves Photoshop .PSD files
Upgrades are free
GIMP can look-and-feel like Photoshop
GIMP is portable

Photoshop CS4: upgrade

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:01:46 +0000

Adobe just published a patch/upgrade to Photoshop CS4. Those who are equipped with this software program will probably be interested in visiting http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ to get the upgrade in order to correct a few performance and feature bugs.

Moreover, the users of MacBook Air and recent MacBook Pro systems can use mutli-touch to rotate documents frame.But, sometimes, it turns out (!) being a nightmare if this is too sensitive. So, Adobe decided to offer a free plug-in to optionnally disable the rotation/zoom commands through muti-touch gestures.