Photography software for Netbooks.

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Sam Trevor

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Hi,

just ordered a netbook for college.
Can anybody recommend any light weight photography software.
Not really for editing but for view RAW files etc

many thanks
sam:wave:
 
Picasa? I use it as my viewer on everything....

Paint.NET? Pretty lightweight and powerful, and I think it handles (or you can get addons) RAW files as well....
 
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Nikon's own:) Nx2 with Nikon's raw codec, would be light and then you could edit them if you like.;)
 
On my Dell Mini 10 I use Elements 8 with Adobe Camera Raw and it works very well. The only caveat being that ACR requires a minimum screen resolution of 768 height. I use a simple executable (reschange.exe) to change the screen resolution from a taskbar shortcut, with another to restore to the native 600 again.
 
On my EEEPC 1005HA i use Photoshop CS5 & Photomoatix, Wouldn't advise either.. Elements 8 also doesn't work! All crash my system.


To view RAW i use XNView Works amazingly well!
 
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Paint.NET is great for a lightweight but powerful editor. It's not for raw processing.

NX does work on my netbook (and thanks again to Nikon for allowing 2 installs as part of the licence!), though I've got NX1 and there's an issue with screen size. Some of the dialog windows are too long for some netbook displays. Besides that, the display in general is way too small for NX to be practically usable, and NX is very slow. However if you really need to use it in a push, it does work.

Viewing, I use either Picassa or just plain Windows Explorer. Nikon's raw codecs are useful here if you're a Nikon person viewing NEFs.

However I'm just looking at FastStone Image Viewer, which is a portable app and could be ideal for netbooks. Seems to handle RAW formats too.

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Other options if you want a general media app for films, video & photos, I use MediaPortal. It's like Media Centre and suited to plugging your computer into a TV, but gives a nice simple interface for the netbook too (and you can plug your netbook into a TV too).
 
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Ive got windows 7 and ubuntu linux on my netbook (samsung n110) and gimp on ubuntu runs brilliantly. Nice and snappy and doesnt really feel any different to how it performs on a full desktop.
 
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