F-Spot - Interesting Links

Sports Illustrated workflow

National Geographic workflow

Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye – Wired’s article on digital photography archive management

intellisharpen – the typical LAB mode, mask L (Luminance), unsharp mask L at a high percentage & small radius, and such

Using GIMP for Photography

RPDNR – nice Photoshop actions under the MIT license for removing noise

“How to make photos more searchable” (this has interesting concepts, even though it is more web-specific, although web publishing should eventually be targeted w/ f-spot somehow) – 3 pages – also has a workflow for photo publishing for a somewhat typical user.

It might possibly be neat to upload images to an open stock photo website such as: http://o2.openphoto.net/

Definately uploading images in a blog post would be wanted, with something like what Nat is doing at http://nat.org/ – this can be done with blog software by use of an API such as Blogger’s, LiveJournal’s, MT’s, and Atom (which is not just an RSS alternative, but also a new weblog API too): http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/001921.html

Raw files and Linux

Various panoramaic packages for Linux – most notabile are hugin, autopano-sift, libsift, enblend dcraw, dcraw-gimp-plugin

RawPhoto plugin for the GIMP (with updating preview)

dcraw – the essential 3rd party raw conversion software (used in one way or the other by everything non-vendor)

“GNOME integration of digital camera RAW format MINI HOWTO” – (making GNOME support raw files via dcraw)

photoproc - “Simple and fast photo postprocessing editor with sensitometrically correct 48-bit workflow for both digital and scanned photos. Contrast, exposure, color corrections, cropping, USM. Supports Canon/Nikon/etc digital camera RAW files using dcraw utility.”

PTLens (lens distortion correction – part of Panorama Tools)

Cinepaint – fork of old version of the GIMP; has higher bit-per-channel support than GIMP, so it may have a bit of interesting stuff somewhere, although much of it is on crack.

Photoshop for Photographers (not necessarily Photoshop specific for everything, plus there are examples of the way Photoshop does things)

Photoshop Elements 3 first look

Photoshop Elements 3 overview

WordPress photo plugin

WP photo plugin examples

Bibble - a Raw conversion / catalog / browser app (Win/Mac/Linux, commercial)