dead fish

Thanks for your comments. The reason I'm not using VueScan for adjustments is that I often scan cross-processed slides (negatives with no orange mask), and I haven't figured out a good way to handle those - I can select "Negative film" and get a greenish cast caused by the attempt to remove orange mask that is not there, or "Slide film" and, well, get negatives that are not really useful for adjustment as-is. When I save them, open in GIMP, invert and try to work on them, I often find that 24bpp just doesn't cut it.

Any ideas how to handle it in VueScan?

Filmgimp looks promising, but I have an awkward problem. No matter what pictures I edit, it seems to crash sooner or later after using "Brightness / contrast" adjustment tool - sometimes it happens after clicking "OK", sometimes shortly after, when browsing menus. GIMP works fine, so I guess there's something wrong with the code...

Hello,

I am a Linux user, and I do not have Windows anywhere (no, I'm not a

fanatic, it's just how things are). The standard, free Linux program

for working with photos on this platform is GIMP, but I am hardly

impressed with it - unless I'm terribly mistaken, it can't handle

anything more than 24 bits per pixel. I do not need more for the final

print, at least not typically, but working on a 24 bpp picture greatly

limits my abilities to adjust scanner and camera output without

ruining the picture sooner or later - there's just not enough

information to increase contrast or brightness significantly without

losing details.

So far, I'm dealing with it by adjusting parameters on the camera for

digital photos, or in VueScan for scans. Unfortunately, both LCD and

VueScan preview window offer inferior quality and are not particularly

useful, and working in a rescan - view - adjust cycle is not really

convinient.

So, my question is, are there any half-decent free (or not too

expensive) tools for performing basic adjustments, corrections and

cropping of 48 bits per pixel images? I am not looking for advanced

color management or superior quality.

Thanks.