[Digikam-users] Another question about RAW processing

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/5/28 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
> On mercoledì 27 maggio 2009 21:04:29, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> : > 2009/5/27 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello everyone!
>> > Till now I shot a really small number of photos in RAW (I was mostly happy with my jpg images), so please understand that I have a very little experience with RAW...
>> >
>> > OK, let's go to my question: I've shot quite a number of astronomical images with a friend, using his Canon 50D, different lenses and some of my telescopes. He said "RAW is better", I agreed, and now I have a lot of images needing editing, and mostly need to fine tune white balance (technically, we need to look for a G2 star in the shot and use it to set our white point).
>> >
>> > I think digikam is very convenient when I need to organize and edit a lot of shots and I'd prefer to use it to work on them instead of using something else, like ufraw, but I found that I can't tweak RAW conversion parameters on a per-image basis, but only globally, from the main configuration window.
>> >
>> > It seemed very strange to me, so I ask you: is there a way to change that parameters individually for each image?
>>
>> Of course.
>>
>> There are 2 way : Let's digiKam apply same demosaicing parameters +
>> auto post processing adjustments. This is the default option,
>> dedicated for beginneer.
>>
>> For advanced users, just go to Editor Settings page, and set on " Use
>> RAW Import tool..." option. Now open RAW file in editor and enjoy.
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3562292552/sizes/o/in/pool-817639@N22/
>
> Great! I knew I was missing something! And, mostly, thank you for this really fast answer!
> I'm thinking even more that what's matters is not only the software, but also the people "around" that software! :-)
>
> Anyway, I skimmed the config dialog a couple of times looking for something similar, without noticing it... I guess I need to look better next time! It was written in the top line of the RAW settings page!
>
> Sorry for the dumb question... :-)

In next digiKam version, when you start digiKam at the first time, it
ask you if you want to use RAW Import tool in your workflow :

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3490737082_c48be289c3_o.png

Gilles

Gilles