Episode 011: RAW converting with UFRaw
RAW conversion was a thing a lot of you wanted to know something about. And in this show I tell you how to use the program UFRaw to get RAW images into the Gimp. My job was coming a bit into the way - I had to build the schedule for my school. So this show contains some ’should be’ outtakes and perhaps I have overlooked some stuff. Please feel free to ask - I will be glad to answer all your questions in a follow up show.
Some links:
The UFRaw home page.
A lot of camera profiles.
Contact me!
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Tags: raw conversion, UFRaw
September 17th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Fantastic video podcasts.
I have just found, downloaded and watched all 11.
Your presentation is excellent and done in a friendly manner.
In my opinion, you should not change anything.
As long as you make them available, we will watch them.
Please continue and thank you.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Rolf - I frequently see discussions on the Gimp-lists where someone says …
Gimp is only 8-bit, Photoshop and CinePaint are 12 or 16 bit … this makes Gimp unsuitable for print photographs and/or professional use….
but Gimp will have 16 bit in version 2.6 ya-da-ya-da….
could you address this in one of your videos? It seems that the current coverage of UFRaw might make this the appropriate place?
September 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Alec - it is in the works for the next show. Thanks for reminding me on that part of the discussion - I planned to cover bit depth and image compression on the camera side and up to the Gimp. But I’ll try to include the printing stuff too. Don’t know much about it…..
September 19th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Thank you for showing us UFRaw. I immediately downloaded the stand alone version for windows and found it to be an excellent program. I plan on getting the plug in for Gimp on my Fedora 7 (Linux) machine. I’m curious, what Linux version are you using?
September 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I am using Ubuntu 7.04.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Thank you very much for this podcast on UFRaw. I’ve been using UFRaw for quite some time and never taken the time to look into the color profiles. I’ve got a D50 and downloaded the profile for it and it really pumps up the saturation and looks much nicer than I’ve been getting out. All of the photos on my daily photoblog are edited in the Gimp and UFRaw running off of a USB key in Win2k. Thanks again!
September 20th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Matt,
thanks for your comment. Your website is defintily worth a look!
October 1st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I just found your videocast the other day and have since downloaded and learnt a lot from your excellent teaching. The pace is just right and you are very intuitive and never boring. Looking forward to your next show.
I was just wondering if you were aware of two other RAW-converters for Linux:
Lightzone seems to have gone the commercial way lately, but still has the v2 free for linux here.
There is also Rawstudio, but I haven’t tried that yet.
I must say that you have gotten me hooked on RAW, and I now get better results (with UFRaw mistly) when combining exposures for sky and ground in landscapes.
Keep up the good work!
October 1st, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Hi Gunnar,
I didn’t knew about these converters and will check them out. Thanks for the links and the praise!
October 1st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Lightzone is way more than a converter. I think it has some real potential. Check out this presentation on the future of image editing.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Lookint at at the moment. Sounds interesting.
1h 15 min up to the next “Meet the Gimp!” - and it will be a MONSTER….
November 28th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Hi. can you please tell me where I could find the ICM profile for Nikon D200?
November 28th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Here:
http://www.dl-c.com/Temp/downloads/download_content.html
November 29th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Thank you Rolf for the profile. Should I use it only with ADOBE RGB or
could I also use it with sRGB-pictures ?
You have a fantastic good site. I will read it every day.
Thanks !
November 29th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
I used it also with sRGB images - but I’ll switch to aRGB and test it.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
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March 19th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Thank goodness you did this. I couldn’t make heads or tales of the instructions on the website. I feel like I can actually use this software now!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
[...] Episode 11 covers editing RAW photos with Ufraw and its excellent! I was a little confused at first because the photo that Rolf was editing seemed almost completely black, but actually he was trying to demonstrate the level of control by using a very under exposed shot. His demonstration and explanation was extremely helpful. [...]
July 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Thanks a lot, Your tutorials are explanatory and easy to follow, please continue. I’ve used Ufraw for some mounths but couldn’t understand the full potential of the program due to not having specified a ICC-profile - at the same time discovering the extend use of GIMP.