[Digikam-users] Open Source Rocks - a big tick to digiKam!

[Simon Cropper]

Hi,

I have had the need to review the variety of packages available to a 
professional photographer for RAW manipulation and JPG creation for 
submission to a professional image library.

 From the commercial side Lightbox and Photoshop rank high on the list. 
Well in fact they are considered to be the industry standard from the 
"other side".

Aside from metadata coding being slightly different (everything was 
there but certain fields were called different things in each packages), 
I was able to do everything I could do and more (and I would say easier) 
on the open source alternatives.

I am currently using digiKam + UFRaw with GIMP in certain situations. 
This combination gave me more functionality for what I needed than 
Photoshop + Lightbox. Unbelievable.

I would like to congratulate the digiKam group on a sensational piece of 
software because although I use UFRaw and GIMP, I can do everything they 
do in digiKam. It is just I am familiar with these packages and find 
doing some tasks in them easier / familiar.

-- 
Cheers Simon

    Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator

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