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Linux for Photographers — Part 2
Continuing to look at whether the Linux operating system a viable option for photographers?
In the previous post I looked at a couple of options of free and open source software that is cross platform meaning it can run on Windows but it will also run on Linux. Darktable in particular does (in my opinion) a great job as a viable alternative to Adobe Lightroom.
Darktable has powerful tools for managing collections of images, the RAW processing of images (which will work for JPEG files with some RAW only modules disabled) and also more advanced options like tethered capture.
However, often used in conjunction with Lightroom is Adobe Photoshop and this is unfortunately, the Linux ecosystem starts to fall down a little.
Photoshop is a very powerful image editor with lots and lots of advanced features and it is not available on Linux systems. I mentioned in the previous post why I believe this is but that leaves limited options available as alternatives to Photoshop.
You’ve probably heard of GIMP, despite the unfortunate acronym based name, it is a very powerful open source and free image editor. It’s open heralded as the open source replacement to Photoshop, despite it not having the same level of features or functionality that Photoshop does.
