Comments on: Opening RAW Images In GIMP with UFRaw For Windows – The Basics

By: Britt

Britt — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:42:12 +0000

thank you for sharing this info. I’ve been stuck with the DPP that came w/ my canon and whining the whole time, “why can’t DPP and the gimp have a baby that will let me work with RAW?!?” I can’t wait to learn how to use this program! thanks again.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:32:19 +0000

can someone PLEASE tell me how to start UFraw in default vs saving the previous settings… I want to start the program and image FRESH each time not automatically impose the previous session settings.. I’ve looked all over and can’t figure out how to do this anywhere. thx

By: susan

susan — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:57:57 +0000

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but UFraw isn’t opening my raw files correctly. I’m shooting on a Canon 1100D (rebel 3) and I’m using a mac. But when I open the images in ufraw they show up with only the left part of the image and all a fluorescent green color, but they are fine with Canon’s software. Anyone know how to fix this?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:54:13 +0000

I cant thank you enough, I have written to Nikon, Adobe but none of them have given me
a simple solution. Bless you and your children’s children, I have some personal photos and
thort I would never see processed. Thank you, keep up the good work

By: Brett Russell

Brett Russell — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:10:14 +0000

Nice concise summary as when I swapped jobs I lost my laptop with Photoshop on it so went looking for cheaper alternatives. A few points though.

1. Image detail recovery appears to be missing in UFRAW, or at least works very differently to the rather impressive one in Photoshop.

2. UFRAW processes well my Canon S70, S90 and 400D images. Top job.

3. Panasonic LX5 raw images are purple due to Panasonic changing its raw image standard from LX3 to LX5. Shame as LX5 is a brilliant camera and makes you consider if you really need a SLR most of the time.

Cheers Brett

By: nelu?u

nelu?u — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:20:31 +0000

I have the same problem, RAW from my Pentax Kx are dark and desaturate

By: habeeb

habeeb — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:58:16 +0000

Thanks for this post. Installed both GIMP and UFRaw. just one ne question. when open D90 raw file in UFRaw, it looks dark and the colors are not as good as what ViewNX shows. Am i missing any fine tuning?
thanks

By: Andres Arenas

Andres Arenas — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:13:16 +0000

I use both tools all the time and they are really great. I just posted a little tutorial on how to get the most of your raw photos using these tools http://www.arenasa.com/what-am-i-doing/Raw-photos-ufraw-gimp

By: Waseem Nawaz

Waseem Nawaz — Sun, 16 May 2010 09:07:06 +0000

Not only i learned a new thing from this atricle but I also know that you work with PWC.. .. Guessed from your drive name. May be its some other PWC thing or you were using someone else’s machine. Great article by the way.

By: Ben in Seattle

Ben in Seattle — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:07:25 +0000

Husain said: “This is great!! Now add 16-bit image support and GIMP is all you need; UFRaw allows you to save in 16-bit TIFF but GIMP converts it to 8-bit ”

I’ve heard that there’s a version of the GIMP that supports not just 16-bits but also 32-bits per color channel plus High Dynamic Range (you can have colors that are brighter than white without clipping). It is used in the movie industry and called Cinepaint. It’d be great if somebody (Peter?) at digital-photography-school.com would cover it so we can know if it’s something we should be using. For example, are there any downsides to Cinepaint compared to the plain GIMP?

–Ben

P.S. I apologize if this gets posted twice. When I hit “submit comment”, I’m just shown a blank page. As a test, I’ve removed all XHTML in this second post.