Gimp: Has anyone any experience of editing RAW in Gimp?

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

Has anyone any experience of editing RAW in Gimp?

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

viscountdriver wrote:

Has anyone any experience of editing RAW in Gimp?

I am also very interested in know how to use Gimp. Any suggestions about resources would be greatly appreciated.

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

viscountdriver wrote:

Has anyone any experience of editing RAW in Gimp?

I am also very interested in knowing how to use Gimp. Any suggestions about resources would be greatly appreciated.

tramsey Loc: Texas

I don't know anything about RAW in Gimp but there is a very easy tutorial for Gimp on this forum. Go to the top of this page and in the blue find,'SEARCH' click on it and in the window put 'Gimp make Easy' go down the list and find the one that Sharkey did. It is similar to those Teach Yourself Visually books. Good luck

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

tramsey wrote:

I don't know anything about RAW in Gimp but there is a very easy tutorial for Gimp on this forum. Go to the top of this page and in the blue find,'SEARCH' click on it and in the window put 'Gimp make Easy' go down the list and find the one that Sharkey did. It is similar to those Teach Yourself Visually books. Good luck

I just went to Shakey's tutorial. It is wonderful. I will start learning how to use this immediately. Ugly Hedgehog is one incredible resource of information. Information made easy, I might add.

Thank you, Ceil

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

It has a learning curve, but is not hard to use. My suggestion would be to find a book or YouTube series to get you going.
Depending on what you are doing though there are easier photo editors available.

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

St3v3M wrote:

It has a learning curve, but is not hard to use. My suggestion would be to find a book or YouTube series to get you going.
Depending on what you are doing though there are easier photo editors available.

Thank you for your advice. I currently use Lightroom and am happy with what it does. It's just that there are others things I would like to experiment with, but I just can't afford Photoshop CS. Oh, by the way, I do have Elements 10 installed, but have not tried working with that yet. Do you also have suggestions about Elements?

Thank you. Ceil

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Ceil wrote:

Thank you for your advice. I currently use Lightroom and am happy with what it does. It's just that there are others things I would like to experiment with, but I just can't afford Photoshop CS. Oh, by the way, I do have Elements 10 installed, but have not tried working with that yet. Do you also have suggestions about Elements?

Thank you. Ceil

If you understand Lightroom then GIMP will fit right in.

wilsondl2 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

I have Elemnts 8 and RAW works in it so I think it will work in 10. - Dave

potmead Loc: 191miles North of London, England

I use GIMP under Linux, for RAW it uses an application called UFRAW which you can adjust colour temp, exposure etc. then it opens the image for further editing in GIMP.
GIMP itself can't handle RAW images.

Graham

kweinberg Loc: Bucks Co. PA

The GIMP is a really comprehensive editing program, and there are freely downloadable file filters for most RAW file formats. There is also a pretty vigorous user group, so check there. They're friendly folks, and will help you out. Remember, Google is your friend!

jiminbaguio

they have a program called Raw Therapee (free) I use it and works great

Bill Emmett Loc: Bow, New Hampshire

Since GIMP does not process RAW, and if you shoot Canon, you may just want to use the Canon processing program that came with your camera, or download it from the Canon website. It is a powerful program that will edit the RAW image, and convert it to JPEG, for import into any editing program.

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

I use Nikon and I shoot in Raw (NEF) only. Will check out options. thank you for answering. Ceil

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

Do you mean that Gimp has a download or the forum?