Darktable

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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTk

http://www.darktable.org/features/

For those less than impressed by Corel releasing some professional-grade Linux photography software earlier this month, Adobe still not providing native Linux clients for their popular applications, and haven't been fond of the major open-source photography programs out there, you may want to try out Darktable.

For those that haven't heard of Darktable previously, it's an in-development open-source photo workflow program. The software can also fully support RAW images and provides a virtual lighttable and darkroom for those interested in photography.

Darktable is currently supported under Linux and Mac OS X and has fully non-destructive editing, the core functions use 4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers, SSE instruction support on modern processors, supports OpenCL for run-time GPU acceleration, built-in ICC profile support, and can handle sRGB / Adobe RGB / XYZ / linear RGB. There's also extensive filtering / sorting / searching options for collected images. Additionally, this open-source program also can handle tethered shooting, has a powerful export system, and many other offerings that can be enabled through Darktable plug-ins.

Came across this and thought some of you snappy penguins might find it interesting and useful.

Tested and packaged for,

*nix (tested: Ubuntu [Karmic, Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric], Arch Linux, Funtoo, Gentoo, Fedora, Macintosh OS X with Macports)

Windows users can use it aswell and instructions are available,

• Unfortunately the community of this commercial distro didn't natively build dt yet.
• But there's a better solution for you to try:
• Download and burn an iso from Pascal's Ubuntu Remasters.
• Reboot your machine.