software we need to use

i am playing with a demo version of soundslides plus on my mac ibook, and it seems very easy to use…

cs2 does a simple save to .jpg from the raw file downloaded from the camera…

could you not just use the software that the camera provides! j

try fotomagico from boinx.com they have a “try” download, we used it for much of the shows at Look3

regardless of what you use.. size your jpg’s/tiffs at 100% of the presentation size.. i.e. we were projecting 1920×1080 (HD) so I sized images at 1080 on tall side..

feel free to PM me if you want more workflow idea for FM

Jon

I’ve been using open source software and it’s working fine, try Ubuntu.

I use soundslides for most of this work. If I need other features, I use Slideshow Pro for Lightroom, which gives me a few extra tweaks I can use. Both are very quick to use in terms of workflow.

I say go with lightroom.
Have not tried the soundslide version for lightroom, but if it is any as good and simple as the original it is a good option to add on.

I read that with the new version of Lightroom is available burn and dodge so you don’t need to go to PS. Hey Blue, what is Slideshow Pro for Lightroom, something like a third part plug in? Anyone if Aperture have the same alternatives and is more fast (or slow)? I am totally new in this. With software like soundslides or the Slideshow pro, can i edit the sound or must use another program? Many thanks to all. I think is good to ear experiences because there are a lot of upgrade software and people with a months of experience out there. Saludos

as far as i know there’s no soundslides/lightroom connection (yet). as for Hernan’s question about the audio. you need an external audio editor (garageband and audacity are both programs that many soundsliders use). soundslides needs finished sound files if you add audio to it…i’m not familiar with slideshow pro.

good luck.

Slideshow pro for LR: happy reading:

http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro/slideshowpro_for_lightroom

Cheers,

Agustin, it’s good to see someone else using Linux/open source software photo work. Although, I still use Macs with Adobe/FCP for work, I’ve been making a side project of doing things off Ubuntu. To me, the apps aren’t there yet, except maybe for audio. That said, I recently found the stylishly named Open Movie Editor (www.openmovieeditor.org), which seems like the best Linux app for audio slideshows now. You could also use Cinelerra.

But to answer Hernan’s original post, if you did want to go this route, Ubuntu will probably run faster than Windows on whatever you have (and will be free). To edit IPTC fields, you’ll need to use digiKam, which can also process RAW files. Between that and GIMP, you should be set.

good luck

An open-source software stack for photographers is really interesting, given that these days photographers has to work on a reduced budget. However my search with the open-source software didn’t previously yield any promising result. There were some developments but most of them were not complete and the pace was also very slow. So I am interested to hear more about the current status. Is there any interest group that look over the development of open-source software stack for multimedia and photographic works?

Regards

Hi Santanu ad Rick!
Since a couple years ago I’ve been using Ubuntu (the most popular distribution of Linux). For editing photos, The Gimp is a very good program, and there’s a quite complete plugin (uf-raw) to work with RAW files. To edit EXIF, IPTC, and to organize your photos Digikam has anything I need, although the RAW conversion of Digikam is quite simple.
Gimp is available to run Windows and also Mac, Digikam only works with Linux. I don’t know of any group of that kind, there are many groups supporting the different programs, specially on Gimp.

SoundslidesPlus is quite OK (see a whole set of MM at http://ka-set.info/actualites/k7-media.html ).

But Fotomagico ( http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/ ) gives you better possibilities with subtitles and exports etc… Haven’t found out yet how to export in Flash

Thanks to all, If someone have more information please actualize this post. Agustin, is really a new world what you are telling me. John, the flash issue is something that i too don´t understand very good. At less now i know that Fotomagico gives more control to some aspects.

Hi Agustin,

Thanks for replying back with the details!! But am curious about colour management in GIMP and Ubuntu. Is there any open-source tool?? What is the result when you open your image files in a Windows based system?? and how does the final print appear??

I am also eager to know about any open-source slide creation tool in Linux. Do you have any experience??

Regards

Santanu

Santanu, I think that the best way is to try GIMP and it’s plugins, you can download GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/ I strongly recommend this two plugins, GREYCstoration (for noise reduction) http://registry.gimp.org/node/137 and UFRaw to work with RAW files http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html
About slide creation there are some strong tools (Cinelerra and Open Movie Editor), but I haven’t used them yet, Digikam (similar to i-view or cumulus) has also a option to create slides, mpg presentations, but quite basic.

Hernan, no me extraña que sea un mundo nuevo para ti, el software libre y el mundo del diseño y la fotografía no se llevaban muy bien. Ya que no era un ámbito al que los programadores de software libre le pusieran muchas ganas. Pero hace algunos años la tendencia cambió y creo que los programas que existen dentro del software libre para trabajar en fotografía soy muy competentes. Y como si fuera poco te ahorras todos los problemas de virus y registro/pirateo de programas.