Part 3 of my series on RAW developers for Linux will be about UFRaw. UFRaw is tightly integrated with Gimp. You can easily do your preliminary work on the RAW file with UFRaw and jump directly to Gimp to do the fine tuning.

Again it is not one of my favorites. My gripes are mostly the same as with Rawstudio. But let’s not jump to the conclusion but have a closer look at the software.

For the sake of compareability I stay with my usual example photo

Straight Out Of the Camera. Pretty soft, as all photos with my 18-55mm VR Nikkor on the long end, the sky lacking in contrast and the colors are off due to the predominantly green background.

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In my last post I’ve done a quick, informal comparison of the various RAW converters I’ve tried for Linux. Yesterday I was made aware of LightZone/LightZombie project and I’ve had to give it a try and start my more serious comparison of RAW developers

Straight Out Of the Camera. Pretty soft, as all photos with my 18-55mm VR Nikkor on the long end, the sky lacking in contrast and the colors are off due to the predominantly green background. Continue reading →

RawTherapee

My personal favorite. Does everything well enough. But intimidating at first. Could use a few more tools (like the digital grad ND that Dark Table offers) and a slight UI update.

Dark Table

Highly sophisticated UI. Very useable. If your computer has the necessary horsepowers. And if it doesn’t crash

Darkroom

Can’t say a lot about it. The UI was bugged. Might be due to some MATE/KDE incompatibility. Will have to check further versions

Photivo

UX is lacking. The UI is cluttered, unintuitive and confusing. Handbook is incomplete. Might turn into a very competent RAW developer with further development.

Rawstudio

Very basic. Too basic in my opinion

UFRaw

Very basic. Too basic in my opinion. But good integration into GIMP.

Corel AfterShot Pro

Looks good. Very useable. Compareable to RawTherapee and Darktable. But not worth the money in my opinion