[Digikam-devel] stitching, 16 Bit. was: [Bug 150009] large print is sent to printer but is taking hours to print - when opening with gimp->print then no problems

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Martin,

I am replying to your question outside of the bug report
because this is getting bit off-topic ;-)
(put you in CC, because I am not sure if you read digikam-devel).

> As an aside, our conservation team at the museum needs X-ray images
> of a large Jordaens piece stitched together - and I'm using Gimp to
> level the image correctly, but we need 16 bit handling but Gimp
> handles only 8 bit. Can this group recommend a 16 bit system to us?

Concerning stitching, hugin is the way to go on linux
  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
(it is also possible to do a raw and 16 Bit workflow with it).

- digikam does do 16 Bit
- krita does 16 Bit, http://www.koffice.org/krita/
- cinepaint (derived from an earlier version of gimp) does 16 Bit


HTH, Arnd