Alan Browne
All that said, when you're serious about photography and raw you should seriously get away from Linux and The Gimp.

Bob
Why would you write this?

nospam
he wrote it because it's true.

Bob
So you're both saying that it's not possibile to produce good photos using Linux and Gimp?

Alan Browne
Not at all.

I'm saying that the OS' of choice are OS X and Windows and the core tool is Photoshop. And in the communities where they are used (professional photography and graphics arts) they are the expected base tools of the trade. Because of that, there is a lot more support. A lot more 3rd party software. A lot more knowledge.

Linux would be okay for such if Adobe released Photoshop for Linux. But they don't. (It's very low use generally for desktop environments and bare existence amongst photographers doesn't make for a good investment).

Tony Cooper
It seems that only Floyd has kept the original poster's question in mind. The poster didn't ask what OS or what software would be an improvement on what he has. He asked what can be done to work with what he has.

Floyd - presumably - did a good job in answering this. I say "presumably" because I use neither Linux nor Gimp and don't know how practical Floyd's response was.

It's too bad that questions like the original poster's get diverted into battles over OS and software with the same old points being rehashed over-and-over. Nothing new was brought up.

You'd think some people have just discovered that Photoshop is a good program and feel compelled to tell the world about it.