A journey to showfoto
I use gimp as the main post process tool for my photographs. Which is anyway a very powerful tool. But most of the options available there are not required for me. Looked for another application which is lighter and powerful at the same time. I tried showfoto long back, never liked the UI that time. Thought of giving another try tonight.
I have a 0.10.0-beta5 installed in my F-9 system (the package came from rawhide though). After starting the application default options(buttons to click) look much lesser, cooler for eyes :)
I opened my raw image in it, took some time but came finally(Is there any chance to make it a bit faster ?). The first thing I tried was to adjust the level, found the desired dialogue after two clicks. All other basic required options are there in the color menu entry including brightness/saturation/channel mixer.
Btw, F10 and F11 buttons will help you to see under and over exposed places in the shot.
Here is a snap edited in showfoto.
You can find my other shots here.
It seems I can now use it for post processing, which also means I am back to digikam once agian :)
3 Comments to A journey to showfoto
DigiKam is one of the best tools I know of. I have a similar workflow as you. Postprocessing (basically sharpening) is still done by GIMP but all the other stuff is done by DigiKam. To put in few words, DigiKam is a masterpiece. If the devs also implement fancy transition effects during presentations they will even beat (the rather annoying) iPhoto.
Cláudio da Silveira PinheiroNovember 3, 2008
I couldn’t help but notice the model seems to look directly at an orb (bottom left of the picture). Was that photo taken on Halloween? :)
You have good skills. Keep clicking! :D
Installing packages from Rawhide on F9 is a bad idea (in particular when you post about it to a blog which inexperienced users will read). It can in quite some cases drag in a lot of packages from Rawhide due to the network of dependencies (in both directions). Why didn’t you use the F9 build from kde-redhat unstable?
November 3, 2008