No installation I am aware of installs the lot as there are far too many. One problem with the GIMP is plugins and brushes. On this score a workflow of ufraw then either Photivo,Lightzone or the GIMP does make sense or even a mix of them but actually all will develop straight from raw even the GIMP. I have used PS some years ago, 10+ and didn't like it one bit - GIMP neither.

There are a lot of people about that feel that the GIMP is a viable alternative to PS but it has the same usage learning curve -possibly worse. That sort of approach is really aimed at producing a package that is easier to use than PS but no where near as capable and more suitable for mass markets. I wouldn't be happy with a package that offered excellent portrait touch up and little else. For instance it does have dust removal presets and many many presets for doing specific things eg portrait touch up I am not sure how extensive these aspects are. I have looked at some of the tutorials though. Lightroom isn't something I have used and probably never will. It will also stitch panoramas and do comprehensive perspective correction. As all open source tends to use this package one way or another the same applies to all of them.Īn application called Hugin will generate lens correction data for an actual lens which is probably a better option than using a general one for a particular mark of lensas they will vary from one to another. It would be extremely unusual to find a camera not covered by this package. Then export to what ever application I like or save as a tiff. I prefer to use this application for raw development actually. Lightzone doesn't but probably will some day.Īn alternative is to use Ufraw to develop raw files as this has had lens correction by built in for some time. On the other hand Photivo has had some of that added recently. It's intended to be used that way as the GIMP provides the method of performing local retouching and using layer and mask modifications.

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