Linux lacking bigtime in "Professional" Photography!

[allix]

I did some googling, jedimasterk maybe this is usefull

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubunt ... /Astronomy
http://www.openastro.com/

[jedimasterk]

Perhaps we can say a few things based upon the points here.

1) Most professionals prefer to use Adobe Photoshop because

• the majority of businesses use this application
• the majority of educational institutions teach this application
• Adobe has marketed their product very well.

2) Some of the FOSS offerings for professional photographers are still lacking important features, for example

• 16 and 32 bit color (coming in 2.6)
• Better layer tools

3) Most professionals may be adverse to running Photoshop on wine or in a virtual machine.

4) Wine does not support the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite

5) Adobe has not shown an interest in porting their applications to Linux

So what could probably assist in rectifying these points:

1) More developers throwing their time into Gimp and other FOSS projects
2) More testers to assist these projects
3) Campaigns to encourage Adobe to release Linux ports of their software
4) Better marketing to encourage more Linux uptake facilitating the above

Agreed!. My point exactly!

[akuma624]

i can haz suggestion:

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Actually, the only thing I can add is the following:

I find it a little funny to read this thread because I've always found artists to be a unique sort. They will literally use *any* tool to create and express what it is they are trying to convey. Modern graphic artists use popular tools right now due to list Dan mentioned above. I mean I'm sure artists today have a wide array of tools and technology than they did in say 1508 - but look and see what one person did create with what he had on hand - link

[jedimasterk]

But what about astrophotography in Linux?. CCD processing?.

[allix]

I pointed to astrophotography above , i am not sure about CCD processing