[Digikam-users] How to open RAW file in the Gimp?

[Simon Oosthoek]

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/1/18 Simon Oosthoek <s.oosthoek at xs4all.nl
> <mailto:s.oosthoek at xs4all.nl>>
> 
>     Hi Gilles
> 
>     Gilles Caulier wrote:
>     > There is no reason to import RAW file in gimp... especially because it
>     > doesn't support 16 bits color depth. It's really weird to import and
>     > edit RAW file in 8 bits...
> 
>     Hmm, for me there are two reasons to use the gimp rather than digikam
>     for RAW conversion:
>     1: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165650
>     2: ufraw's ui is (for me) more intuitive for RAW import than digikam's
>     interface
> 
> 
> What's is more intuitive in UFRAW than digiKam ? I really know what
> exactly ? Are you tested current development version from digiKam ?
> 

I promise I will take some more time to look at it and report my
findings, but reason 1 and lack of time do cause delays for a proper report.

I only recently updated my digikam to the latest (KDE3) development
version, but I try to keep up now.

One of the main things that ufraw does better than digikam is that every
update in the controls has an almost immediate effect on the preview
image (though my CPU does cause delays, but I hope to have that fixed
soon! ;-) )

Of course, I've been using ufraw a lot more for processing RAW than
digikam's recent raw import ui, so I'm more experienced in ufraw.

Cheers

Simon