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Savannah - M6 Mark II

Started 7 months ago | Photos thread
dan the man p Senior Member • Posts: 1,201
Re: 3rd Set (Cathedral of St. John and Shrimp Factory)

RLight wrote:

dan the man p wrote:

RLight wrote:

It's too bad PhotoLab doesn't support Linux... I'm looking to make the jump. Darktable appears to be the only CR3-compliant Post Processor for Linux though. If any major Post Processor had support for Linux, I'd sign up. Ironically it looks like open-source for me, just like the OS... I may maintain a Mac/Win presence though for DPP4/LR though if it doesn't pan out...

I use PhotoLab via VirtualBox on Linux. It's not the snappiest, but it's still better than DPP4. Just be prepared to walk away and do something else if you are exporting anything with Deep Prime turned on.

As for native Linux options that support CR3, I've recently started using ART, a fork of RawTherapee that adds CR3 support as well as a lot of other nice features including local editing and easier tone adjustments (shadows, highlights, midtones, etc.) and simplifies the workflow. I like it so much that it has displaced PhotoLab as my raw editor for everything except when I want Deep Prime. I used Darktable for a while and prefer ART over that as well. Give it a try when you get a chance. Oh, also, it is compatible with RawTherapee's film simulations , which I find very useful.

Nice photos, by the way. Savannah is a nice photogenic place.

Thanks for the tip! I will give ART a try.

Now the real question... POP!, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, or something else... I've never dabbled with POP! , but I've noted it's uptake in popularity lately and it does have native AMD driver support. Dunno how I feel about GNOME and to have to deal with package management/support though... Ubuntu makes that "easy".

Well, personally, I use Slackware, which isn't what I consider "hard" but also not what I would recommended as an easy option. As far as ART is concerned, there is a binary under the downloads section of the site that may work on Ubuntu, as well as an AppImage that says it works on Ubuntu 20.04 and later. I haven't tried them, but I expect they should be built with CR3 support enabled. I would probably go with Ubuntu and try one of those first in your position.

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