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flashmasters
Catergory: image manipulation
Apophysis
Cartegory: CGI
Homepage: http://www.apophysis.org
Apophysis is an open source (GPL) program for designing and rendering fractal flames in Microsoft Windows. It was created by Mark Townsend and has since been improved and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys and Ronald Hordijk. Fractal Flames were originally developed in 1992 by Scott Draves.
Manuals
Tutorials
External links- Apophysis Fractal flame tutorials
- Apophysis Tutorial by Fractal Dreamer
- This tutorial is not about the nitty gritty ins and outs of Apophysis. But rather a basic tutorial for the beginner to get a handle on this programme.
Cinepaint
Category: Image editing
Homepage:
Tutorials
External links- HDR Tutorial
- Creation of an HDR image (OpenEXR) in Cinepaint
dcraw
Category: RAW processing
Homepage:
digiKam
Category: Photo Management
Homepage: http://www.digikam.org
Manuals
- digikam Manual
- digiKam's online manual.
F-Spot
Category: Photo management
Homepage:
GIMP resources
Other
- GIMP users
- GIMP users photo sharing group on Flickr.
gThumb
GNOME desktop image management tool - allows for browsing and organising collections of images, including simple manipulations
- gThumb Homepage
- project homepage at sourceforge.
Hugin
Category: Panorama
Homepage:
Manuals
- Hugin Manual
- Hugin online manual.
Tutorials
- Hugin Tutorials
- There are many tutorials on the Hugin website.
Scripts
- huginscripts
- This bash script uses autopano-sift to do auto-alignment of images, generating the .pto file that Hugin uses to create the panorama and maximizes the horsepower of dual core or dual processors.
Inkscape
Category: Vector graphics
Homepage: http://www.inkscape.org
Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.
Manuals
- Inscape Documentation
- Inkscape documentation
- Inkscape User Manual
- Inkscape's Un-official manual by Kevin Wixson.
KPhotoAlbum
Category: Photo management
Homepage:
Krita
Category: Image editing
Homepage:
Manuals
- Krita Manual
- Krita's online manual.
qpfstmo
Category: HDR
Homepage: http://theplaceofdeadroads.blogspot.com/2006/07/qpfstmo-hdr-tone-mapping-gui-for-linux_04.html
Qtpfsgui
Category: HDR
Homepage:
Manuals
- Qtpfspui Manual
- Qtpfspui's online manual on the Open Source Photography wiki.
Tutorials
External links- Basic tutorial
- A 5 minutes tutorial about the creation and tonemapping of HDRs in qtpfsgui.
Other
- Tone mapping operator parameters for photographers
- How do the technical parameters for tone mapping operators translate into something meaningful for the photographer in order to achieve the wanted result.
Rawstudio
Category: RAW processing
Homepage: [http://www.rawstudio.org/]
Good for processing large batches of raw photos while still being relatively simple to use.
UFRaw
Category: Raw processing
Homepage:[http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/]
Tutorials
- UFRaw at Digital Light and Shadow
- UFRaw can be used as a standalone tool and as a Gimp plugin. As a standalone tool it would produce 8 or 16 bit image files. These files can be used for further processing in Gimp. There are reasons why you would want to go this route to Gimp. You have here the description of this Workflow steps
- Fotolibre
- Blog in spanish which contains interesting information aimed at the professional photographer. We are trying to get authorization from the author to translate in to English
Scripts
- ufraw-batch for multi-processors
- A small bash script that takes advantage of multi and dual core processors when processing RAW image files.
