[Shotwell] Calling Ufraw

[Adam Dingle]

Peter,

On 06/25/2010 02:22 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote:
> I notice that when I import DNG photos from my camera that Shotwell
> invisibly converts the photo from RAW, presumably by calling Ufraw in
> batch mode.
>    

Shotwell does not call UFRaw or require it to be installed.  Shotwell 
converts photos from RAW using the libraw library (see 
http://www.libraw.org/), which is a wrapper around the same dcraw engine 
used by UFRaw.

> I seem to remember an earlier posting requesting this behaviour.
> The problem is that, for me at least, it seems better to display Ufraw
> first. This allows me to choose various settings, such as black point,
> exposure level, wavelet denoise, saturation, conversion curve etc,
> etc, that can then be used for subsequent photos in that batch.
> You might want to consider building a similar idea into Shotwell
>    

Shotwell's RAW support is limited in the upcoming 0.6 release.  Today, 
Shotwell can convert each RAW file to a JPEG for display, and can also 
open RAW photos in an external editor.  At some point we'd like to build 
RAW adjustment capabilities directly into Shotwell; then you'll be able 
to choose the kinds of settings you mention in Shotwell without having 
to launch an external program.  At that point I also hope we'll make it 
possible to apply a single setting to a group of photos.  This sort of 
RAW editing is probably a few releases away, however.

adam