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Notes of "weapons" in darkroom 
Raw converters 
Calibrate monitor 

Notes of "weapons" in darkroom 

http://www.mulebakken.net/notes/

 Author: Lars Tore Gustavsen
Last update: 18/04-05

Raw converters 

Dcraw 

Very nice c program. You can find it at http://www.cybercom.net/%7Edcoffin/dcraw/

If you have a canon 10d take also a look at Ture Palsson's page.

Bibble 

Very nice program. Fast, good support, and nice price. Runs on Linux, windows and mac.

CaptureOne (C1-Pro) 

Very good. Expensive and no linux version. You can try it with wine on linux if you follow this notes. http://www.mulebakken.net/notes/captureone.php

Gimp-plugins 

Here are some raw plugin for the gimp

  • RawPhoto GIMP-2.0 plug-in
  • UFRaw

Canon EVU and DPP 

This is canon program for canon raw files. Evu working successfully but DPP have some problems. I have written a little note here about installing with wine. http://www.mulebakken.net/notes/dpp-evu.php

Calibrate monitor 

lprof 

http://gkall.hobby.nl/sane-lprof/sane-lprof.html

lprof contains a nice utility called qtmonitorprofiler. You can make your own color profile. It is usable in cinepaint, picture window pro, bibble and scribus. If you have problem building it from source, there is (still) rpm's out there . Here is a nice description on monitor calibration. http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=moncal

Xcalib 

My sceen card doesn't support lut, so this is untested. The author says "Think of it as "AdobeGamma" for Linux" in this thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00939.html

You can grab it at http://www.etg.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/web/doe/xcalib/

Argyll Color Management System 

Argyll is a color management system. http://www.argyllcms.com/ You can make icc profiles for scanner, printers, monitors and more.

I have never had success, in my attempts to compile it, but Graeme Gill have now published binaries for linux. Nice.

xgamma/tkgamma 

Xgamma and the frontend tkgamma give you chance to change your monitors gamma. Xgamma is a part of X11.

Webpages 

Try Accurate Image Manipulation for Desktop Publishing page or Norman Koren's page http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/evaluation/gammaspace/index.htm

documented on: 2007-12-27