RAW processing plug-in - any interest?

[PhotoFlow Editor]

Hi!,

since photoflow is a full-featured RAW editor which is constantly updated in terms of camera support, this should definitely improve the situation. Moreover, the plug-in should be designed such that it invokes the stand-alone photoflow executable with special parameters, and therefore the photoflow release cycle can be decoupled from Krita… in other words, users will be able to get updated RAW processing without having to update Krita itself.

What I really need at this initial stage is a Krita developer who knows the details of plug-in development and that has the will and time to guide me through the first steps of setting up aRAW file loading plug-in.

In its current form, the GIMP plug-in that I would like to port to Krita works in a rather simple way:

- the plug-in gets the name of the RAW file to be opened
- it invokes photoflow and tells it to save the result of the RAW processing in a temporary floating-point TIFF file
- when the photoflow execution is finished, the plug-in opens the temporary TIFF file as a new GIMP image


How difficult would be to replicate this behaviour with Krita?

Thanks!
Cheers,
Andrea

> On 05 Mar 2017, at 14:20, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Integration with other applications is always interesting. Krita's own RAW import dialog is very old and very limited -- I made it in 2006 or so, and never did anything with it. I'm not even sure the camera I got that could produce raw images still boots :-). Anything that helps reduce our maintenance burden and improve things for users is welcome.
> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, PhotoFlow Editor wrote:
> 
>> Dear Krita experts,
>> 
>> this is my first post here, so let me introduce myself: I am the developer of an Open Source RAW and raster image processing program called PhotoFlow (https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhotoFlow <https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhotoFlow>).
>> It can develop RAW images with a quality and flexibility comparable with other Open Source tools like RawTherapee and Darktable.
>> However PhotoFlow, unlike other RAW processing tools, is based on non-destructive adjustment layers. 
>> 
>> Recently I have been developing a plug-in for the GIMP editor. The plug-in allows GIMP to open RAW images by delegating the RAW processing to the PhotoFlow executable.
>> It also allows to use PhotoFlow as a filter plug-in, for non-destructive editing of the image data from existing GIMP layers.
>> 
>> PhotoFlow, as well as the GIMP plug-in, are available for Linux, OSX and Windows.
>> The current plug-in code can be found here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhFGimp
>> 
>> 
>> Would there be any interest for a similar functionality in Krita? If yes, I’m ready to collaborate in porting the plug-in code to Krita, although I will surely need lots of assistance as I am not familiar at all with the Krita framework…
>> 
>> 
>> With my best regards.
> 
> -- 
> Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org