Re: RAW processing
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:45:16PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So what do people use for RAW processing and how do people make ufraw
> > bareable? I find its interface a bit kludgey at times and its initial
> > insistence to save the previously applied settings annoyed me til I
> > turned that off.
> >
> > dcraw -e is neat for previews for me.
> >
> > At the moment I go:
> > -> RAW photos from camera via thunar (+ hal/dbus automounting etc)
> > -> dcraw -e and a check of which ones I want to process in
> > gqview
> > -> rm *.thumb.jpg and then ufraw on the RAW files I do want to
> > process.
> > -> Sometimes I then rotate and crop in the gimp.
> > -> Then I convert -resize them keeping the processed full sized
> > JPEGs
> > -> Then I bung them in postr and stick them on flickr (I'm
> > shufgy there)
>
> What I currently do is simple: "import it into digiKam, apply tags, and
> go from there". Both digiKam and f-spot do have support for RAW, which
> is more than enough for me to preview them if necessary, and to manage
> stuff as well. If I do want to do some modifications, gimp-ufraw is
> quite helpful.
My camera sticks a jpeg preview at the top of the raws, so I:
- copy all of my pictures from the card to a queue directory
- run a script which extracts each jpeg preview from each raw
(using a combination of tail and convert hax)
- use the exif data in the preview jpegs to rename all of the files
with a timestamp
- use the exif data to sort the files into date directories (eg
pictures/2007/december/03)
- Preview and select raws to edit at my leisure (using ufraw plugin
to gimp for editing).
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