Comments for Stuart Herbert | Gentoo http://blog.stuartherbert.com/gentoo The Diary Of A Former Gentoo Developer Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:06:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Picasa On Gentoo Is Cool, But I’m Sticking With Photoshop Elements For Now by Chrelad http://blog.stuartherbert.com/gentoo/2006/05/28/picasa_on_gentoo_is_cool_but_i_m_stickin/#comment-19170 Chrelad Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:39:09 +0000 #comment-19170 Hi Ravi, I can certainly appreciate the fact that Photoshop has loads more options than Picasa, but from what I can tell, Picasa isn't aiming to be a "replacement" for Photoshop. Also, for my part at least, Picasa isn't used for photo editing, but instead for integrating my online albums on Picasa with my screensaver, uploading to my web album, compressing and minor touch ups, cropping, rotation, etc. Perhaps you are expecting it to do something it's not meant to do? I completely agree about keeping the source closed... That is most definitely not the best idea. The community at large would definitely benefit from everyone having access and being able to branch off and improve an already great free product. Bottom line, I wouldn't stop using Elements even if Picasa did get super great, it'll never be a Photo editor. It's just album management software with some added extras like red eye, rotation, cropping, blurs, etc. Unless Google wants to jump into the professional photo editing market (which I doubt), Picasa will *never* be what you are looking for in an image editor :) Great post Ravi, keep 'em comming! Chrelad Hi Ravi,

I can certainly appreciate the fact that Photoshop has loads more options than Picasa, but from what I can tell, Picasa isn’t aiming to be a “replacement” for Photoshop. Also, for my part at least, Picasa isn’t used for photo editing, but instead for integrating my online albums on Picasa with my screensaver, uploading to my web album, compressing and minor touch ups, cropping, rotation, etc. Perhaps you are expecting it to do something it’s not meant to do?

I completely agree about keeping the source closed… That is most definitely not the best idea. The community at large would definitely benefit from everyone having access and being able to branch off and improve an already great free product.

Bottom line, I wouldn’t stop using Elements even if Picasa did get super great, it’ll never be a Photo editor. It’s just album management software with some added extras like red eye, rotation, cropping, blurs, etc. Unless Google wants to jump into the professional photo editing market (which I doubt), Picasa will *never* be what you are looking for in an image editor :)

Great post Ravi, keep ‘em comming!

Chrelad

]]> Comment on Digikam Is As Useful As Picasa by Glen http://blog.stuartherbert.com/gentoo/2006/05/29/digikam_is_as_useful_as_picasa/#comment-11871 Glen Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:03:15 +0000 #comment-11871 Hi I read your review with interest as I recently switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu and had previously used Picasa to handle my Nikon raw NEF files. In the version I am running digiKam handles the images - the only problem it has is within the image preview where the orientation (portrait v landscape) isnt retained - fairly annoying and I am looking for a fix. I agree with your point on rotation/straightening, a grid over the image and slider bar would be much easier than having to enter arbitrary +/- degrees. I'm still playing around with it, but will update my blog with a review once I have written it up In summary, the application seems to have moved on somewhat since your blog entry, it is possibly worth a fresh look. Cheers Glen Hi
I read your review with interest as I recently switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu and had previously used Picasa to handle my Nikon raw NEF files. In the version I am running digiKam handles the images - the only problem it has is within the image preview where the orientation (portrait v landscape) isnt retained - fairly annoying and I am looking for a fix. I agree with your point on rotation/straightening, a grid over the image and slider bar would be much easier than having to enter arbitrary +/- degrees. I’m still playing around with it, but will update my blog with a review once I have written it up

In summary, the application seems to have moved on somewhat since your blog entry, it is possibly worth a fresh look.
Cheers
Glen

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How did your progress go with getting a custom gentoo image. I recently received access to ec2 and decidd to roll my own gentoo image. I’ve used gentoo quite a bit for beowulf clustering and servers so thought the it would be ideal, however I have yet to log into my own ec2 gentoo image. I can get the gentoo image to boot, but can’t get into it. If you have any pointers on how you got this to work, I’d love to know.
Thanks,
Michael

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]]> Comment on About F-Spot vs Picasa by Sultan Qasim Khan http://blog.stuartherbert.com/gentoo/2006/05/29/about_f_spot_vs_picasa/#comment-111 Sultan Qasim Khan Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:55:05 +0000 #comment-111 I first tried gThumb but it had an extreme lack of features, it's auto correct thingy didn't do anything significant and it sometimes crashed. F-Spot crashed when I plugged in my camera and crashed every 5 minutes or so with external images rendering it a useless program. Digikam is the only one that works. It rarely crashes, has ten times the features of it's ugly gnome counterparts and it actually fixes the image with auto correct instead of making it worse. I am really ticked of by gnome. It was junk 3 years ago (last time I used it) and is still junk, just buggier now. I first tried gThumb but it had an extreme lack of features, it’s auto correct thingy didn’t do anything significant and it sometimes crashed. F-Spot crashed when I plugged in my camera and crashed every 5 minutes or so with external images rendering it a useless program. Digikam is the only one that works. It rarely crashes, has ten times the features of it’s ugly gnome counterparts and it actually fixes the image with auto correct instead of making it worse. I am really ticked of by gnome. It was junk 3 years ago (last time I used it) and is still junk, just buggier now.

]]> Comment on by boniek http://blog.stuartherbert.com/gentoo/2006/12/01/title_6/#comment-160 boniek Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:18:53 +0000 #comment-160 Thank you for all your work for gentoo! It's really appreciated.<br /> Gentoo User Thank you for all your work for gentoo! It’s really appreciated.
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