[svlug] noise in photo processing

[Larry Colen]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:30:04PM -0800, Richard L. Halpert wrote:
# Larry,
# I'm afraid that's a limitation of gimp being 8-bit.  Kind of defeats the
# purpose of using raw files.  There are some tools out there for working with
# raw files on Linux.

It does seem that there is some work on a 16 bit gimp. I haven't
tracked that down in any detail yet, but it seem to be related to a
gimp for film project.

# For open source software, try UFRaw or Rawstudio.  UFRaw can be used as a
# gimp plugin, but of course that means its output will be limited to 8-bits.
# If you use it alone, you're not so limited, but you may not have all the
# editing tools you need.

I've been using dcraw/ufraw and even tried pulling the raw image into
gimp using the plug in.


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