kishorebhargava

Ever needed to correct your images? Sometimes in a hurry you manage to wreck a good shot and it may be the only photo to remind you of the place/event. Well, theres tons of image editors available. I have been using something called digiKam which is a nice KDE package with some great plug-ins and features. Its easy to use and it lets me manage a simple workflow between taking photos, managing them and finally bringing them to a point where they can printed or shared on the web! digiKam is also capable of handling RAW images which makes it really useful for those images that you want to print or bring to life. If you need to do something more complicated then you should still go and look at “The GIMP” I can’t figure out how to use it yet. Its on my list of “To Learn”.

But recently, while browsing my daily sites, I came across something called “LightZone“. This one is a real killer. As the product manual says, Its a program designed for photographers by photographers. It uses the well known concept of “zones” as initiated by Ansel Adams and has extremely simple controls that can be used to fix or improve an image. But the really intersting part of this was the fact that the Windows and Mac versions of the software are paid products whereas the Linux version is “free” at least free as in muft! Anton Kast one of the architechs behind LightZone is an ardent Fedora user and has made the program available to all Linux users for free. If you’d like to dowload and try it, do give it a shot. The download is not available from the main LightCrafts website its available from here. Windows and Mac users, can get a 30-day free trial from the main website and then will have to pay for it. ‘d still say its worth it but if you want the real benefit switch to Linux

Cheers…Kishore
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