Google Summer of Code – Deadline Extension

If you’re a student and have not had time to apply for a Summer of Code internship with the hugin/panotools project, here are good news for you.

The Genesis of Software

All software is born proprietary.

Edit the Nadir, Part II

Expanding on the previous tutorial for extracting the nadir of a full spherical panorama with hugin for editing, here is an advanced editing technique featuring the individual images composing the panorama remapped to the nadir and layered in a single document.

I want my privacy back!

Gnome’s thumbnail cache is a security risk.

Image Browsing

Image browsing is the backbone of the photographic workflow. When I first inserted a compact flash into the card reader of my Ubuntu box, the system tried to detect what media it was. It was faster and better than the equivalent Windows function, so I decided to give it a try.

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I want my time stamps back!

Why does gnome/nautilus have to screw up my timestamps?

Refocusing, take two

Mike Warot has published a video of his use of Hugin and Enfuse to achieve a virtual focus. As the say goes, one image tells a thousands words and this 30 seconds movies is worth seeing.

Gnome is too big, indeed.

Now that I do boot on the Linux side of the divide more often, I notice more usability issues with the Ubuntu default desktop.

Don’t touch my RAW files!

Panic attack! When software touches my RAW files

Canon Digital Photo Professional in Ubuntu Linux

Canon’s Digital Photo Professional works in Ubuntu but the search for a better image browser / raw converter goes on.