Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Friday 19 October 2007

Congrats

Joe, congrats!

Best wishes to the bride and the groom.

Sunday 14 October 2007

Digital photography with Free Software

Some linkage relating to digital photography with Free Software:

  • Argyll CMS solve the problem with calibrating your screen device. Hardware manufacturers are not cooperative and the list of device is limited. ArgyllCMS is licensed under GPLv3. I just packaged it for openSUSE (pick your repository). I'll talk more about it when (if) I get the hardware.
  • Calibrating your scanner works if you have a calibration device and a target.
  • 16-bits color managed workflow using UFraw and Cinepaint, with a screencast video (in Ogg-Theora)

Saturday 6 October 2007

gnome raw thumbnailer

In the steps of hadess, I created the gnome-raw-thumbnailer module in GNOME subversion. This will be in the end the official repository of this little project that I can't leave with.

It is a thumbnailer for camera RAW files using libopenraw.

Current limitations:

  • only handle the format that libopenraw knows about
  • do not (yet) rotate the thumbnails. Will do when I can get the information from libopenraw.

You can get the 0.99 release I did a while back. The SuSE packages are in the build service.

I'd love to this shipped by default.

Tuesday 2 October 2007

No summit

Finally I won't be at the Boston Gnome summit this year either.