I recently started to play with RAW images on a Nikkon camera. The first issue was that gimp could open the images but only in a kind of thumbnail version. Browsing around it looks like one tool to read the RAW images is UFRaw and it provides a gimp plugin. Under Fedora 17, I could not find any package, so installation from source was required. Here are the steps I followed:
First, get the UFRaw source files from
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html
Uncompress in a directory. Go to the directory that has been created and install the package manually as follows
mkdir ~/installation cd ~/installation mv ~/Downloads/ufraw-0.19.2.tar.gz . tar xvfw ufraw-0.19.2.tar.gz cd ufraw-0.19.2 ./configure --with-gimp sudo make install |
Note the –with-gimp option. I got a couple of configuration/errors that surely will depend on you system/distribution. Here are the issues I got on Fedora 17 and how it was resolved
First, at the configure stage, the lcms and gtkimageview libraries and devel libraries were missing, which was simply solved using yum:
sudo yum install gtkimageview gtkimageview-devel lcms lcms-devel |
Then the –with-gimp options requires the devel package of gimp:
sudo yum install gimp-devel |
Finally, once UFRaw is installed, you can start gimp and open a .NEF file normally. The UFRaw window will pop up automatically.
