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Episode 076: UFRaw revisited

I got a mail from Pascal de Bruijn, the man behind the p-code blog. He knows a lot about colour management, RAW processing and so on. He had seen episode 11 and pointed me to some errors and stuff that is new in UFRaw. So I read his mail and had a look.

This is really a fast forward through the program, nothing really in depth. It can be a guide for experimenting. If you know not much about RAW processing, have a look at episode 11. It covers some basics about the technology behind it.

I used the UFRaw version compiled by Pascal. You can find it for Ubuntu on his site – other OS have to look around. Start with the UFRaw home page.

I’ll have an eye surgery tomorrow (lens replacement) and had not much time to prepare this episode. TOC and more will follow. And I’ll be off screen for some days until I am allowed to read again.

The TOC

0:00 Intro
0:26 Statistics
1:50 Pascal’s e-mail blog.pcode.nl
4:16 – Fire up UFRaw!
4:30 – Color matrix vs. Color profile
5:57 — Working Color Space Profile
6:33 — Rendering Intent Option
8:50 – Details Restauration & Highlight Clippings
10:13 – Import base curves from .NCV
10:26 – Auto black point correction works perfectly!
11:13 – New features in new version of UFRaw
11:36 – LensFun
14:00 – Fix cromatic aberration
15:57 – Optical Vignetting
16:23 – Lens distortion – Panotools
17:16 – Lens geometry
19:18 Outro

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Raw Therapee – Experimental RAw Photo Editor

Marcin (Martii) pointed me to this RAW conversion program. It does run under Linux and Windows XP/2000. No mention of Vista or Mac.

The screen shots look nice, but I haven’t tried it yet. Shall I cover this program in a show? It doesn’t seem to be open source, but free to download. Where shall I draw the line?

HINT: There is a Donation button on his site. Use it, if you like the software.

Episode 011: RAW converting with UFRaw

Edit: Episode 76 covers some new aspects of UFRaw and corrects some mistakes. Look at it too!

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.

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