Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/12

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Subject: [Leica] GIMP shortcomings
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
 
Sue Ryan writes:
GIMP only functions when using jpegs, or used to. My son-in-law uses it 
but I don't know how old his version is.

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Sue,
So far you are right. You have to use a stand alone converter or plug 
in to go from RAW to JPEG or TIFF.
Traditionally UFRaw has been the plug-in for processing RAW files, It 
is essentially a stand-alone application that has fairly good 
integration with GIMP (It knows how to pass images directly into GIMP 
once RAW processing is complete.
My older version of GIMP (2.8) only processes images in 8-bit color 
depth, so you are advised to do as much as you can with your RAW 
processor of choice before importing into GIMP. I have been told that 
newer versions are in development which will address these 
shortcomings. Still FREE however.
Larry Z