January 21, 2005

• Fnordware has free Photoshop plugins for such stuff as PNG and JPEG2000 support. Also one that extracts ICC, EXIF, and IPTC info.

  And they're called FNORDWARE.

  The new version of iPhoto looks pretty spiff, but don't be fooled by the promise of RAW file support: It renders a JPEG and that's what you end up editing. You have to export the original RAW file to another file before it'll let you edit that file in an external editor, too.

  I'll be tremendously glad when the industry settles on a good way to handle the digital workflow stuff. The reason I'm doing this research is because I want a 'digital lightbox' program that will let me browse through my Pentax (and Olympus) RAW files, without sucking majorly like the one Pentax provides. I also want to be able to change ColorSync/ICC embedded profiles from the lightbox, not from an AppleScript, which is what the ColorSync documentation tells you to do.

  In fact, the longer I make the list of things I want, the closer I come to a design document for a piece of software. Maybe it's time to learn the ColorSync API. Woot.

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