I have 4GB RAM, and I gave 1.9GB of it to the VM.

I have PS-CS2 set up in PlayOnLinux and a Win7 virtual machine. Based on my experience with CS2 and comments friends have made, dedicate as much RAM as possible to the VM. I cannot help you with memory requirements for Lightroom or current versions of Photoshop - I have never used LR, and I stopped upgrading PS at CS2. It contains most of the keyboard shortcuts, mouse functions and a list of all modules for darktable 2.0. I also suggest you download the Darktable reference card. This is for an earlier version of dt and it does not cover all of the features, but it is still good resource. I recommend the “packaged” version because it comes with the images that are used in the tutorial. It is more user friendly than the official User Guide. Resources & Links also has a PDF book Digital photo development with darktable. He takes a workflow approach to demonstrating Darktable, and he shows the steps he takes to process an image. The ones by Robert Hutton are especially good. The Resources & Links page on the darktable website has links to several screencasts. To add the PPA for darktable, open a terminal and enter You will want to install the current versions, and to do you will need to add a couple of PPAs. I like RAWTherapee, and over the past month I have spent a lot of time using it because I need a Windows application to teach my college-age nephews how to process images.īoth darktable and RAWTherapee can be installed from Software Manager, but the version in the repositories is old. I use darktable for my work - I prefer it to RAWTherapee because it allows for selective editing and I prefer the way it handles Noise Reduction. I have also used Lightzone and UFRaw (both as a stand alone application and as a GIMP plugin), and I think dt and RT are the better, more mature applications. I have dt and RT quite a bit, and I find they are very capable RAW developers. I have not used Lightroom, so I do not know how (or if) it is superior to dt or RT. I suggest you also try darktable (dt) and RAWTherapee (RT) - both are superior to Canon DPP. Also, these programs are excruciatingly slow - it took nearly 20 minutes to export 10 RAW files to JPGs. The RAW developer and image editor functions are very basic while that makes them easy to learn to use, the user interface is so clumsy that makes it difficult to do anything quickly. Let me start by recommending you avoid Canon Digital Photo Professional. Mint 18.3 Cinnamon as my OS and in Virtualbox, Windows 10. Do you have the installation disc for Windows? My recommendation is to have as much RAM as possible. You probably can install your copy of Windows in Virtualbox. Should I install VirtualBox? Can I then use the copy of windows 10 that I have never activated? I tried to install Canon Digital Photo Professional using Wine, but it did not work. I have done some research and Lightroom seems to be miles better than other Linux based, open source, software. Now taking up photography, and particularity interested in taking RAW pic, need to have the necessary software. I can live with libreOffice without the need for MS Office. I installed Linux Mint as a fresh installation, no partitions. When I got my laptop 2 years ago it had windows 10 preinstalled but never activated. I enjoy using Linux and never thought I would need a bad OS like Windows again - until now!

I installed Linux Mint about 2 years ago.

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