BBC Series "The Genius of Photography"

Warning: some of these contain pictorial nudity.

Program 1
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Program 2
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

Program 3
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Program 4
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Program 5
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Program 6
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

GIMP's Big Improvement

I tried out GIMP many years ago, but the one thing that kept me from sticking with it was its 8 bit limitation. Well, that limitation is no more. GIMP's latest version (2.6) has a major improvement in that department. It now has something called GEGL, which processes the images in 32 bits.

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"Important progress towards high bit-depth and non-destructive editing in GIMP has been made. Most color operations in GIMP are now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework GEGL, meaning that the internal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear light RGBA. By default the legacy 8 bit code paths are still used, but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color operations with Colors / Use GEGL."

The good news: it's a free download.
The bad news: as of 9-5-08, there is no ver. 2.6 for Windows or Mac. At this point, it's Linux only.