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Re: [LUG] Marketing Linux and media playing

 

Rob Beard wrote:

cia tech wrote:

the only thing that keeps me back to windows is photoshop cs which is
a must for editing my photos as I have a lovely fuji velvia action and
some neat sharpening actions for it.

Have you tried using The Gimp?  I've read in various places that the
functionality is similar to Photoshop.

Rob


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yup, I'd agree with that. The gimp is pretty good, though the layout is slightly different from photoshop. Also there is digikam, which is a great photo album app which lets you tag your pics and then sort them by subject etc. It also has basic editing features including some useful batch ones which will resize, rename multiple pics.

On multimedia it's a good idea to have xine/kaffeine and mplayer installed as so many other media apps depend on the libaries they provide. Quite a few actually use xine and/or mplayer as the engine that powers them. I have to admit that I think kaffeine is a great piece of software - you may not have seen its DVB capabilities as they only kick in when the needed devices are detected. If your version doesn't have a DVB tab then you need an upgrade. Mine is 0.7.1.

Simon

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