But we really wanted to keep the energy you see in the improv stuff lots of kids make in elementary school - high school, but at a better level technically. Today, I am losing hopes in Glasgow, while closely watching Gimp/GEGL.Cessen, it’s funny you should say that, because one of the goals for the project was to make a… I dunno. One can wonder if there is still life in Glasgow.įor months, it looked like The Gimp was stalled with GEGL going nowhere and enhancements to the software being of little use for photography, while Cinepaint-Glasgow seemed on good tracks. However, there has been no news on Glasgow for months now, besides a prototype that basically just loads an image (no operation available) and currently is windows only. Well, Cinepaint has officially two branches: Cinepaint (the one I just described) and its next generation code-named “Glasgow”: Glasgow goal is to bring a top-notch multi-plateform (Linux, Windows and Mac) open source software to the movie and photographic industries. If I decide it is worth it, then I fire Cinepaint and do a more thorough job. What I do when I see a file I like in my pictures harvest of the day is do a quick editing in The Gimp (rotation, curves, cropping…) to get an idea of the potential of the image. Cinepaint even integrates with Gutenprint allowing you to send your work strait to your printer for high quality output (speaking about the files, the image is up to the photographer… I’ll do a post on printing at a later point, btw). What makes Cinepaint incontournable in Linux is its deep paint / color managed capabilities – although we’ll see there are 1-2 more contenders. How far from perfect depends on your zenness, I guess (mine is very variable, so I entertain some kind of a love/hate relationship to Cinepaint…) Well I guess it forces you to “know what you’re doing” (there must be some kind of acronym for that: FKWYAD, maybe?).Īlmost a perfect world. Trial, undo, error on a high-resolution picture in 16bits / channel. It works, but… Btw, I know the ultimate solution is to take leveled pictures. Hard to estimate when your horizon will be leveled without a low-resolution picture showing the rotation effect. Drives me crazy sometimes (applying a gaussian blur filter to the wrong layer? Grrrr!). Layer selection works only if you click on the layer name, not its thumbnail.Need to click twice on a tool to activate it – think “OK, done with cropping, let’s clone out this dust speck” and still being stuck with the crop tool: “Do you really want to crop your image to a 5×7 pixel size?” Yeah! Fun!.Apart from the occasional crash, here quick list of the bits that most annoy me: Tango icons integration by yours truly □ However it is generally quite rough at the angles. It was based on GTK1 (no anti-aliasing in menus…) and has been relatively recently moved to GTK2 (so it doesn’t hurt the eyes anymore in a modern Linux desktop). I like it, since the result is a less complex interface, but one that contains all the functions that I use (remember, I speak as a photographer).Īdd to the bag that Cinepaint supports color management and welcome to the perfect world? Almost.Īs mentioned, Cinepaint is a fork from an old version of The Gimp. So you can tune up your curves quite a bit without loosing nuances.Ĭinepaint’s interface offers a lot less options than The Gimp’s. With 8 bits on a black and white image, you have 256 levels from pure black to pure white. So Cinepaint offers 8 bits per channel, but also 16 or more. It is basically targeted at Hollywood studios (its first name was FilmGimp) as well as advanced / pro photographers, so its goal is “no compromise on image quality”. Nuff said.Ĭinepaint ( web, wiki) is a fork from The Gimp that focuses on bringing “deep paint” to The Gimp. Although it has lots of interesting features (a quite a few of no use for photography), The Gimp really falls short with its color calculations limited to 8 bits per channel.ġ6 bits / channel, color managed. We left our last post on software about The Gimp with “good things to look forward to, with a grain (or two) of salt”.
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