[ale] raw files in the Gimp

Robert Owen robeowen at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 22:43:05 EST 2011


A couple of gimp add-ons are gimp-dcraw and gimp-ufraw. I use and like
gimp-ufraw, but there are others.


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 10:14 PM, Drifter wrote:
>> Old camera died.  Got new camera (Nikon -- didn't want to toss a half
>> dozen lenses)
>> New camera produces RAW files in format<filename.NEF>
>> If I open the image in Gimp, only the icon file is available.
>> The original image is 12 Mgb (more or less), but the file in Gimp is only
>> 209 Kb -- 160 x 120 pixels.
>>
>> So, can The Gimp handle Nikon RAW files?
>>
>> If so, how do I set it up to do that?
>>
>> Advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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> You may want to check out RawTherapee at http://rawtherapee.com. When I
> was hoping to be able to get a DSLR I was looking at Nikon and was
> exploring OpenSource software that would directly handle the RAW format.
> I think that there was a plugin for Gimp, but several people had pointed
> me to RawTherapee and another package that slips from the old memory cells.
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