Announce: Linux - GIMP Dimage color plugin 1.0.0

[Laurent Houdard]

This GIMP plugin converts Minolta DiMAGE 5/7 JPEG pictures to sRGB colorspace.

You can download it at:
http://l.houdard.free.fr/dimage/gimp-dimage-color-1.0.0.tar.gz

In my tests, the converted images look exactly as if they were converted to sRGB by the Dimage Viewer utility.

What the plugin does is:

• a "standard" colorspace conversion, and
• a tone correction based on a curve found in the ICC profile as a non standard tag ('iTRC').--Laurent

 

[Mark A. Williams]

This GIMP plugin converts Minolta DiMAGE 5/7 JPEG pictures to sRGB
colorspace.

You can download it at:
http://l.houdard.free.fr/dimage/gimp-dimage-color-1.0.0.tar.gz

This is GREAT news!! The only thing is, Mandrake doesn't list the Minolta Dimage as a supported camera. Where have you found software to hook up the USB and get the images onto the computer? This is one of the few things holding me back from converting to Linux at home. I dual-booted hoping Linux had caught up enough for me to use it, but it appears it can't do it yet. My scanner is not supported, either, evidently. My PC shouldn't be the problem. It's a one-year-old Micron.

 

[Laurent Houdard]

Where have you found software to hook up the
USB and get the images onto the computer?

I'm using a SanDisk USB compact flash card reader (ImageMate SDDR-31), but some people have succeeded with a patched kernel (see "Dimage 7 usb driver for linux" thread in this forum).

--
Laurent

 

[Bradley Broom]

Mark A. Williams wrote:> > Where have you found software to hook up the> > USB and get the images onto the computer?> > I'm using a SanDisk USB compact flash card reader (ImageMate> SDDR-31), but some people have succeeded with a patched kernel (see> "Dimage 7 usb driver for linux" thread in this forum).> > --> Laurent

I use a Pyro firewire flash reader. It's fast and doesn't use any camera battery power.

Is there any advantage to using the camera directly?

Bradley

P.S. Anyone know why my quoted messages don't contain any newline (unless I put them there)?

 

[Luke32204]

Apologies if this is a stupid question Laurent, will this plugin work with the windows version of GIMP?

Thanks

Luke

 

[Laurent Houdard]

Apologies if this is a stupid question Laurent, will this plugin
work with the windows version of GIMP?

It should, but looking at :
http://www.gimp.org/win32/
It doesn't seems to be simple.

You will probably need windows gimp developer packages, and Visual C++ or a windows version of gcc.

...or contact someone that has allready compiled gimp for windows.

 

[Laurent Houdard]

The GIMP Dimage color plugin is now on sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimage-color/

(and http://dimage-color.sourceforge.net/ as soon as i have some time to write some home page and documentation)

The files will soon be removed from the previous location.

 

[Mark A. Williams]

Where have you found software to hook up the
USB and get the images onto the computer?

I'm using a SanDisk USB compact flash card reader (ImageMate
SDDR-31), but some people have succeeded with a patched kernel (see
"Dimage 7 usb driver for linux" thread in this forum).

That's great news!! I have the SanDisk SDDR-31 as well. Now, how did you get drivers to make it work? I'm using Mandrake 8.1, so that might be different from your distirbution.

P.S. I'm not a programmer. I want to use Linux so I can get away from unaffordable software. So, if it requires programming knowledge, I probably can't do it.

 

[Marcel de Boer]

Hi Mark!

That's great news!! I have the SanDisk SDDR-31 as well. Now, how
did you get drivers to make it work?

The SDDR-31 is not really a problem, you have to make sure you have SCSI-support in your kernel (with support for SCSI disks)

Besides SCSI support you will need USB support for your USB chipset and the USB storage driver. As you are using Mandrake, they are probably precompiled for you, so you just have to (as root):

1. modprobe sd_mod
2. modprobe usb-ohci (or -uhci if you have an Intel chipset on your motherboard)
3. modprobe usb-storage

Now you should be able to mount it from dev/sda1 (assuming you don't have any other SCSI disks)

Gtnx
Marcel

 

[Mark A. Williams]

That's great news!! I have the SanDisk SDDR-31 as well. Now, how
did you get drivers to make it work?

The SDDR-31 is not really a problem, you have to make sure you have
SCSI-support in your kernel (with support for SCSI disks)
Besides SCSI support you will need USB support for your USB chipset
and the USB storage driver. As you are using Mandrake, they are
probably precompiled for you, so you just have to (as root):

1. modprobe sd_mod
2. modprobe usb-ohci (or -uhci if you have an Intel chipset on your

motherboard)

1. modprobe usb-storage

Now you should be able to mount it from dev/sda1 (assuming you
don't have any other SCSI disks)

Gtnx
Marcel

I didn't get Linux because I'm a programmer, so all this stuff gets a little frustrating. If it really was as easy to do as so many people say, then it would have given Windows some real competition by now. Anyway, I will try what you suggested. Thanks a lot for the time you spent typing all that. Handholding is what I need.

 

[Marcel de Boer]

Hi!

I didn't get Linux because I'm a programmer, so all this stuff gets
a little frustrating. If it really was as easy to do as so many
people say, then it would have given Windows some real competition
by now.

Well, most things Windows can do automatically for you are also possible in Linux (at least in the friendlier distributions, like Mandrake), but those are things most people do daily, such as word processing/spreadsheet work etc..

For most other things, you will still need a bit of knowledge about the way Linux works and why it works that way, but the same is true for quite a lot of problems I have been asked to solve on Windows-systems. The difference between the two is: with windows you are advised to call your 'system administrator' to fix it for you, and with linux you are your own system administrator (not a programmer, mind you, these are two distinctly different fields, although most people in one field also know a little bit about the other).

What I actually mean to say is: while Linux may require you to learn quite a bit more than Windows, you will gain a lot of knowledge and satisfaction from knowing your system, which you can also apply in a lot of other situations.

Anyway, I will try what you suggested. Thanks a lot for the
time you spent typing all that. Handholding is what I need.

That's ok.. And for the handholding: everybody needs that sometimes, especially when plunging into the deep

Gtnx
Marcel

PS. This is getting quite off-topic, so if you still have trouble it may be better to e-mail me, although I can't guarantee a quick response...

 

[Laurent Houdard]

I wrote a little explanation of how the plugin works.

If you are a native english speaker, feel free to correct those pages and send me a mail (I'm not used to write in english).

http://dimage-color.sourceforge.net/
http://dimage-color.sourceforge.net/documentation.html