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GreatAttractor / imppg

ImPPG (Image Post-Processor)
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Open RAW images with a plugin? #23

Open davidedelvento opened 10 months ago

davidedelvento commented 10 months ago

GIMP cannot open RAW files such as NEF, but with a pluging it can use RawTherapee or DarkTable (and probably other sw too) under the hood.

I know nothing about how GIMP does that, but it would be awesome since it would avoid one having to multiply the number of copies to keep around, which quickly goes out of hands in both filesystem occupation and in "tracking" what-is-what.

Ideally ImPGG should aso be able to use and (optionally) add its editings to the existing sidecar files to prevent further saving of yet other copies as I mentioned in #22 but I guess just being able to open the originals rather than a copy would be a huge boon.

GreatAttractor commented 10 months ago

It seems LibRaw (based on dcraw) should work. If the user wishes to save translated images, it should be possible to keep the RAW metadata (I'll need to look into some details, e.g. what to do with hot pixel maps).

davidedelvento commented 10 months ago

This sounds like a great improvement and I'm looking forward to it!