Gimp Portable

PortableApps.com announced yesterday the release of their portable version of the Gimp 2.2.13. From the announcement:

This new release updates the included GIMP to 2.2.13, adds Vista compatibility, correctly cleans up GTK's bookmark and thumbnail files and features a greatly improved startup speed thanks to the new launcher's plugin processing. And, it's now packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite.

If you don't have a portable computer, or if your only computer is someone elses, having PortableApps is the next best thing, seriously. Go check it out!

LightZone for Linux

Charles Tilford (a.k.a. listentoreason) sent me a tip about another photograph editor called LightZone for Linux. I haven't had much time to experiment with it, but it looks to be a pretty sweet little package. This is $250 software on Windows or Macintosh but free for nerds linux users. Score! Here's a quote from their homepage:

Drawing on principles behind the photographic Zone System and traditional darkroom film photography, LightZone 2.1 makes it simple and easy to bring out the true tone, color and contrast often hidden in digital images. Designed by photographers for photographers, LightZone 2.1 offers a rich set of powerful, yet easy to use digital editing tools. LightZone's editing tools help reduce the noise often found in high-ISO digital images, correct color shifts and white balance errors, selectively sharpen or blur images or parts of images, remove dust spots and boost overall color to create beautiful, breath-taking images, letting the true talent of the photographer shine though.

Note: it's not open source, but it is free. Take that for what you will. I'll be checking it out sometime this week depending on my free time.

Inkscape .deb Package

For those of you using some flavor of Debian linux (Ubuntu) and do not favor building your own packages, ubuntuforums.org user gummybearchen
has conveniently packaged Inkscape for us. Check it out here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org....

That is all.