Making UFRaw work with Gimp

[Michael Piziak]

Ubuntu/Linux user here.

How do I use/make UFRaw work with Gimp. I'm basically trying to use Gimp to open Raw camera files and read that UFRaw is one way to go. Somehow I arrived at this webpage but really don't know what I'm doing, or don't know what to do to make UFRaw a plug in for Gimp: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufraw

 

[Ysarex]

Ubuntu/Linux user here.

How do I use/make UFRaw work with Gimp. I'm basically trying to use Gimp to open Raw camera files and read that UFRaw is one way to go. Somehow I arrived at this webpage but really don't know what I'm doing, or don't know what to do to make UFRaw a plug in for Gimp: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufraw

Install DarkTable. Use DarkTable to open and process raw files and so avoid GIMP like the plague that it is. If there's something that you must use GIMP to accomplish then export a 16 bit TIFF file from DarkTable and GIMP will read it.

 

[Len Philpot]

I second the indirect recommendation to use something newer and more powerful than ufraw. darktable is very good and can interface with GIMP but so can RawTherapee. Even if you have to manually load the raw editors output into GIMP, either darktable, RawTherapee, ART or some other newer raw editor is a better choice IMO.

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[NAwlins Contrarian]

Ubuntu/Linux user here.

How do I use/make UFRaw work with Gimp. I'm basically trying to use Gimp to open Raw camera files and read that UFRaw is one way to go. Somehow I arrived at this webpage but really don't know what I'm doing, or don't know what to do to make UFRaw a plug in for Gimp: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufraw

Years ago I tried UFRaw as a GIMP plugin, and found it very limited and primitive. Although I'm sure DarkTable is good, RawTherapee (https://www.rawtherapee.com/) comes in a Linux version and (at least in the Windows version, where I've personally done this) can function as a GIMP plugin.

 

[I2K4]

Ubuntu/Linux user here.

How do I use/make UFRaw work with Gimp. I'm basically trying to use Gimp to open Raw camera files and read that UFRaw is one way to go. Somehow I arrived at this webpage but really don't know what I'm doing, or don't know what to do to make UFRaw a plug in for Gimp: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufraw

Like others here I use Darktable, but was surprised to find now that it has replaced UFRaw in GIMP without my doing anything. If I open GIMP and navigate to a RAW file, it quickly opens Darktable as a plugin. I agree that Darktable or RawTherapee are superior to UFRaw.

But not hard to imagine someone just wants to open a RAW file and go immediately to working in GIMP rather than play around with a full featured editor. If that's the case I see that DCRaw and GIMP-DCRaw are preinstalled with GIMP 2.10 in Mint 20.x but UFRaw is no longer shown available in the repository - I'd be curious what happens if the OP simply tries to open a RAW as is, and if that's good enough for the purpose?

 

[newmikey]

Ubuntu/Linux user here.

How do I use/make UFRaw work with Gimp. I'm basically trying to use Gimp to open Raw camera files and read that UFRaw is one way to go. Somehow I arrived at this webpage but really don't know what I'm doing, or don't know what to do to make UFRaw a plug in for Gimp: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ufraw

Up to a few years ago I used it as well and it has a separate gimp-plugin binary. There is a somewhat better fork called NUfraw (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ )

On my system I have the latest nufraw installed but I tend to almost never use it TBH:

gimp-nufraw

Converter for raw files; utility and GIMP plugin

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/

Version 0.43.3-7

Depends On cfitsio exiv2 gtkimageview lcms2 lensfun libjpeg-turbo

Replaces gimp-ufraw

Build Date dinsdag 3 januari 2023 02:58:23 CET

I'd agree with others in using Darktable or Rawtherapee as Gimp plugins. Both Darktable as well as Rawtherapee can function as file-opener plugin from within Gimp such that you open a raw file with Gimp which in turn loads one of either DT or RT and upon closure of said DT/RT the plugins will pipe the result back into Gimp as 32-bit file automatically.

Vice-versa also works although with DT you need a little script but either DT or RT can open your raw file and send the result automatically to Gimp when you choose [Edit with Gimp]/[Export to Gimp].

Last and different option is to use Digikam which is now up to version 7.9 and uses the same libraw engine as many other converters. It also doubles as a DAM tool and editor.

I'm a Manjaro/Arch linux user so no idea if you need to activate some external repository on Ubuntu but all modern distros will have all of these raw editors available as a one-click install.

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