[Digikam-users] Question about RAW processing: ufraw files?

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/4/4 Hadmut Danisch <hadmut at danisch.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering to use digikam and have a technical question about RAW
> file processing:
>
>
> Until now I used to process my RAW images with ufraw, a nice graphical
> frontend for dcraw.
>
> ufraw has a useful feature, the so called ufraw batch files, which are
> small XML files containing the
> parameters for the RAW->pic conversion. So there was actually no need to
> keep a pic twice on the
> disk, it is enough to have the RAW and the small ufraw with the
> description, allowing to
> generate a processed picture at any time without human interaction with
> ufraw-batch (which takes
> both files and generedes the processed output).
>
>
> Does digikam support a similar feature (or is it able to deal with ufraw
> files) or would I have to keep
> all my raw pics twice, both as raw and jpeg (or tiff)?

There is no deal with ufraw sidecar files

digiKam has already Batch RAw converter as kipi-plugin.

in digiKam 0.11, a new Batch Queue Manager is implemented. You can
batch Raw file, resize it, make color adjustements, convert to
PNG/JPEG/TIFF, all in the same time.

http://www.digikam.org/node/427

Gilles Caulier