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LensFun in UFRaw

Published on June 4, 2008 in Development, Graphics and Photography. 2 Comments

Just a day after I blogged that it’s unknown when LensFun will land to UFRaw the patch entered holy waters of UFRaw’s CVS I bet you’ve been waiting for that for quite a while

The user interface is built so that if the used preset is OK, you don’t go any further. But if you want to tweak options, you have plenty of them to play with:

LensFun

Looks cool, eh?

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LGM2008. Take two

Published on May 22, 2008 in Development, Graphics and Photography. 0 Comments

If you read CREATE mailing list or stumbled upon one of my previous blog postings, you might have wondered, what happens to LensFun project.

Here is the news. During LGM Gilles Caulier demoed an initial implementation of LensFun in digiKam. Currently it has no advanced options, but you can choose a lens manufacturer and a lens model and see preview. From what I understood, this will be in version 0.10.0 (first KDE4 version of digiKam) and already is in SVN. Edit: I was just told that chromatic aberrations can be fixed in digiKam now as well thanks to LensFun

Screenshots for digiKam: one, two, three.

The Great Anderses of Rawstudio also demoed (privately) an initial support for LensFun (without advanced options as well). It fixes geometric distorsions only right now and I don’t know when it will be released.

There also exists a patch for UFRaw that is coming directly from Andrew Zabolotny (the LensFun developer) and has advanced options, but it was obsoleted by more recent changes in UFRaw/CVS, so it doesn’t compile right now.

Thus, even if not at the speed of light, changes are coming

Enfuse and GUIs

Published on February 12, 2008 in Development and Photography. 2 Comments

The magical Enfuse has been gaining momentum for a while, and a couple of GUIs are available already. I wonder if guys at Novell hack week could take a shot at porting EnfuseGUI from .NET to Mono (and maybe even make it an F-Spot add-in?)

By the way, hugin/panotools are requesting a Google Sumer of Code project and a number of slots (if we are chosen) this year again. If you are student who is willing to contribute, don’t hesitate to tell us Use the mailing list.

Update. I stand corrected (thanks, Yuv): source code is not available. So… Anyone keen to create one from scratch?

Interview with Hal Engel

Published on January 21, 2008 in Development, Graphics and Photography. 6 Comments Tags: color management, lprof.

Since guys at dot.kde.org are procrastinating with publishing submissions again (sorry for nitpicking ), here goes the interview I did with Hal Engel in December (Russian version is available for two weeks already). Hal is lead developer of LProf — the only open source ICC profiler with QUI (Qt based).

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Open source wireless triggers

Published on September 21, 2007 in Development and Photography. 2 Comments

Some guys are planning to design a low cost open source wireless trigger for flash photography.

Sounds like open source hardware is gaining momentum

Studio sessions

Published on December 5, 2006 in Photography. 0 Comments

Well, it’s winter again and I guess that it’s time to go back to studio

Eugenia

Overall I’m not quite happy with results of this session, though it was fun. Haven’t shot in a studio since April or so, more practicing is definitely required.

Back

Published on September 5, 2006 in Life and Photography. 0 Comments

Well, vacation is over

Spent a great week in St. Petersburg (for the first time in my life, which amused most of my friends) walking, meeting with friends and shooting pictures — unusually much street photography that I never felt I was good at.

A girl feeding pigeons

Now onto work

Ugh… Long time no blog again? :)

Published on August 18, 2006 in Life and Photography. 1 Comment

Tried new Heal tool from soc-2006-healing-brush branch of GIMP. Great stuff, definitely worth releasing with 2.4, if developers decide so.

I’ll be offline next two weeks due to long anticipated vacation. Have fun

SABDFL in Moscow

Published on June 16, 2006 in Photography. 0 Comments

Been at meeting with Mark Shuttleworth and Chris Kenyon from Ubuntu Canonical yesterday in Philosophy Institute, Moscow.

I don’t think that we have managed to discuss everything we wanted to, but most important questions were answered, which is still very, very good.

A very interesting theme came up during the meeting: Mark told us that the master plan would be doing something quite different in comparison to other desktop OSes, like collaborative work over some XMPP-like protocol in any application. Sounds very much like Inkboard

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What’s new and shiny?

Published on May 20, 2006 in Photography and Specs. 0 Comments

Long time no blog I’m pretty busy here with translations, docs and work on www.linuxgraphics.ru that I announced available for public yesterday. There are quite a few articles to read there and more are coming this weekend.

Another release of CREATE shared resources will be done soon. I’m planning to add TRC curves to the spec and prepare a separate package of burningwell.org public domain hi-res textures. Yep — you get me right, shared resources will be modularized.

Short summary on other software related stuff:

work on translation of Scribus’s docs into Russian has begun;
I’m mentoring translation of XaraLX into Russian;
hugin 0.6 has new docs browser, and v0.7 will have more docs both in English and Russian.

In early May I was in expedition to Caucasus. Had much fun shooting fake animals

A tree0like sheep? Or a sheep-like tree? :)