Linux Replacement for Lightroom

[Brainonska511]

I've pretty much moved all my computer OS usage to Ubuntu as of September '08, but I have yet to look into finding a replacement for Lightroom, and thus still boot into Windows when I need to go through photos I've taken.

I've been doing a little looking, and came upon ShowFoto, but it's written for KDE. I know I can install KDE programs under gnome, but I'd like to see if there are any GTK programs first just to avoid installing KDE packages. Anyone have any experience using this program or have a suggestion for something else I can use?

 

[compman25]

Will Gimp do the same things?

 

[Brainonska511]

As far as I can tell, Gimp is more of a Photoshop substitute. It doesn't look like it would do well for photo editing, especially when I have 150+ photos to sort through. Lightroom is good for this, since you can quickly look through all your pictures, decide which ones are the best, and then edit those quickly.

 

[Fardringle]

Will Lightroom run in WINE or a VM?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Will Lightroom run in WINE or a VM?

From WINE's page, it will not work properly and I don't really want to run a VM (or have that much excess space for doing such). I was just wondering if there are similar programs.

 

[Fardringle]

Not that I can find. I did some searching and while Gimp does work in Linux, it's not comparable to Lightroom (it's closer to Photoshop as others have mentioned). From some of the posts I read, it seems that there really isn't much demand for photo editing software on Linux so developers haven't done much with it.

 

[arrfep]

AFAIK, the most powerful photo-editing software that is fully featured (effective NR, clone brush, layers (maybe), Raw conversion (faster than ACR and Canon's DPP, dunno about LR), use of plug-ins, etc) and available to natively run on Linux distros is Bibble. I'm not sure why it's not more popular, since it's pretty advanced, is way cheaper than LR or PS3/4, and it comes bundled with Noise Ninja, which many photogs use anyway. If I ever build a Linux box, it will be my first choice for editing.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
I've pretty much moved all my computer OS usage to Ubuntu as of September '08, but I have yet to look into finding a replacement for Lightroom, and thus still boot into Windows when I need to go through photos I've taken.

I've been doing a little looking, and came upon ShowFoto, but it's written for KDE. I know I can install KDE programs under gnome, but I'd like to see if there are any GTK programs first just to avoid installing KDE packages. Anyone have any experience using this program or have a suggestion for something else I can use?

I had this same problem. I gave Ubuntu a try and really liked it, but couldn't live without Lightroom (and to a lesser extent, Quicken and Zune software), so I moved back to Vista (which I still actually like). It'd be great if Adobe released a linux version of Lightroom--or any of their products for that matter.

 

[Brainonska511]

Anyone else have any suggestions?

I might just stick with my current solution - boot into Windows when I need to process photos (which is only about once or twice a month) and then transfer them via external hard drive or USB key to my Linux /home partition.

I might look into using something like Bibble in the future, but I'd prefer not to pay for something like that at the moment, as I have a perfectly good copy of Lightroom for Windows...

 

[episodic]

See this site. . .

http://photobuntu.wordpress.com/

 

[compman25]

How about this? Raw Therapee

 

[compman25]

Or this? blueMarine

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: compman25
How about this? Raw Therapee

Originally posted by: compman25
Or this? blueMarine

Thanks. Those look like they might work and provide what I need.