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SubjectRe: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D
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Date12/02/2013 04:23 (12/01/2013 22:23)
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In article <87vbz8gdir.fld@apaflo.com>, Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@apaflo.com>wrote:

Floyd L. Davidson
Also, the TIFF related stuff is in a library, used by both UFRAW and GIMP, so it if it is something else it may not actually be related to the specifics of either of these programs!

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doesn't matter where the problem is.

at the end of the day, he can't open a standard image format.

Floyd L. Davidson
Are you actually that impaired?

Misconfigured software is not unusual for new users on the first try.

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why should anyone have to configure something just to open a standard format file??

that's what i mean by jumping through hoops.

Floyd L. Davidson
You clearly did not understand the problem. It is not reconfiguring the editor to open a standard format file.

It's writing the output from UFRAW to be in a format that GIMP reads.

more hoops. why isn't it integrated?

camera raw is integrated into photoshop and lightroom. raws are in effect, a native format.

in fact, you can go *back* to camera raw after processing the image to make a change, without losing any of the work you did in photoshop.

GIMP, as it happens, reads a long list of standard format files, but like all programs it doesn't support everything. Will Photoshop open XCF files correctly? Will it open a TIFF with layers, with 14 bit depth, with any of the odd greyscale formats that TIFF can support?

photoshop is one of the few apps that supports layered tiff, and i think the first to do so.

I'm sure that we can find something that your favorite editors cannot open properly. For years a lot of programs couldn't deal with PNG, 12 bit JPEGs, and a few other standardized JPEG options. Whoop dee doo.

the issue is not whether it supports a format but having to do more than just file/open to read it.

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convert image1.tif -depth 8 -type truecolor -density 300 -units pixelsperinch newimage1.tif

Floyd L. Davidson
If that works, try it again without the "-density 300 -units pixelsperinch" options.

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didn't someone say there were no hoops to jump through??

sure looks like hoops to me.

Floyd L. Davidson
Incidentally, all of that works exactly the same way on an OSX or MS-WINDOWS machine.

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incidentally, you are wrong *again*.

Floyd L. Davidson
In fact I'm right. As usual you can't get past your nose.

nope. you're wrong.

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none of that is necessary on a mac or windows system.

Floyd L. Davidson
It works *exactly* the same on all three OS's. It has nothing to do with the OS. It has everything to do with changing one default option in UFRAW, which is the same on all three OS's.

ufraw might be the same, but on a mac or windows, there are other options that are much easier, faster, and do not need any of these hoops.

that's why those hoops aren't required.

to you, the whole world is the gimp/ufraw.