[Digikam-users] RAW editing

[Sven Burmeister]

Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 14:57:26 schrieb Wilkins, Vern W:
> This issue comes up repeatedly and I think that does say something about
> Digikam's raw processing.  There are often responses indicating that
> Digikam 'can' work well for editing raw files.  I love the program and
> appreciate all the work of the developers, but I have never found it
> suitable for my needs when it comes to raw processing.  I can get a
> reasonable conversion if I tweak different settings for every individual
> image, but there just doesn't seem to be much consistency and the settings
> I need to tweak to get a decent image are not at all similar to settings
> I'd tweak in other programs.  It just seems the initial conversion is so
> far off that there might be half a dozen different things I have to do to
> the image to make it look even remotely like the camera jpeg.  It has
> always been just easier for me to use Ufraw to do the initial conversion
> from raw to png, and then do sharpening, tagging, etc., in Digikam.

We need a functionality to apply luminosity curves. They work quite nicely for 
most pictures.

See 

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276415
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276417
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276418
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276439

Sven