First Post: Open Source Software and the Sacrifices made by People
Recently, I have spent a good deal of time developing a workflow for Photomicrography. In temperament I may be a perfectionist; this part is easy, but results pose a challenge. This first post is inspired by evidence I have seen of the work done behind the scenes by the developers of the remarkable free software package RawTherapee, a raw image processing software for digital photography. I was particularly struck by a thread in which some obviously regular participants in one of the threads about recent cutting edge improvements. The contributor of one of the improvements, either for white balance; or catching up with modern exif libraries---RawTherapee has not had access to exif data for my camera, a Canon EOS M50, until a certain recent development release; or a recent testing release for noise reduction tweaks. This developer was thanked by the others, for work that obviously required considerable skill and sweat. As it turned out this developer s...