{"id":1166,"date":"2009-12-05T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-12-05T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T23:05:39","slug":"gimp-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/12\/05\/gimp-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP Raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When photographers I know talk about processing their digital images, they generally talk about Adobe products like Photoshop or Light Room. Some talk about Apple&#8217;s Aperture. Operating system only matters when it manages to make filters finish faster on the equivalent hardware.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Colorful Renee by Ezra S F, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneezypb\/3937989481\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3423\/3937989481_84ce569fd9_m.jpg?resize=171%2C240\" alt=\"Colorful Renee\" width=\"171\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> But&#8230; I am cheap. Photoshop was in my tool set back when work paid for me to do web design. Aperture and Light Room never entered it.<\/p>\n<p>So I used <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.com\/\">Picasa<\/a> as it did what I needed. Occasionally I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a> to perform more advanced edits. For example, I desaturated a custom area in the picture on the right to bring the attention back to who is important. Picasa can only do the same for a circle.<\/p>\n<p>Considering GIMP is a image editor, it seemed quite concerning that it would fail to open Raw images. Surely Canon CR2 files from a 4 year old camera are supportable? Well, it turns out, GIMP needs help from a plugin.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> A dcraw-gimp plugin based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybercom.net\/~dcoffin\/dcraw\/\">dcraw<\/a> has very simple options for profiles used convert Raw to Portable Any Map for opening in GIMP.<\/li>\n<li>A ufraw-gimp plugin based on <a href=\"http:\/\/ufraw.sourceforge.net\/\">ufraw<\/a> has much more cool tools for adjusting the levels prior to converting to Portable Any Map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This morning I worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/f-spot.org\/Main_Page\">F-Spot<\/a> as my image manager and GIMP as the editor. This afternoon I switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digikam.org\/\">digiKam<\/a> for the image manager and switched only to GIMP for things I could not manage.<\/p>\n<p>I think I can use this workflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When photographers I know talk about processing their digital images, they generally talk about Adobe products like Photoshop or Light Room. Some talk about Apple&#8217;s Aperture. Operating system only matters when it manages to make filters finish faster on the equivalent hardware. But&#8230; I am cheap. Photoshop was in my tool set back when work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[539,857,260,242,839,838,293,241,858,856],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canon","tag-dcraw","tag-flickr","tag-gimp","tag-linux","tag-operating-system","tag-photographers","tag-picasa","tag-raw-images","tag-ufraw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-iO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}