Category: Art

Making RawTherapee Work in OS X Lion

RawTherapee

I’ve been playing with RawTherapee (v4.0.9), a very impressive RAW file editor that’s extremely technical. It’s available on Google Code.

Here’s how I made it work with OS X Lion 10.7.4.

After installation, opening the app results in an instant crash with an error like this:

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _iconv
  Referenced from: /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib
  Expected in: /Applications/RawTherapee.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
 in /usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib

This post led me to copy some libraries from OS X into the application directory:

$ cd /Applications/RawTherapee.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/
$ cp /usr/lib/libcups* .

And then to fix the icons:

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/share
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/RawTherapee.app/Contents/MacOS/share/mime /opt/local/share/mime

You’ll still get a lot of memory errors in the console, but it’s possible to use the software.

Art Epiphany: There Are No Lines

“Do not try to draw the line — that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no line.”

Portrait by Paige

Here’s your art epiphany for the day.

There are no such thing as lines. There is only contrast.

A line is merely a stark contrast between negative space, positive space, and negative space.

Realistic drawings mirror nature, which have adjacent gradients. Where those meet, it creates contrast.