About

To get the best results out of your digital camera, it is recommended to record your pictures in RAW format. This format is specific to a camera and cannot be read directly by image editing applications.

Most of this formats can be converted to a standard DNG format.

dlRaw is an open-source program to read and 'develop' such DNG files. (1)

dlRaw will convert your RAW files into JPEG, TIFF, PNG or PPM images. JPEG or PNG is a standard format to view, print and share your images. PPM or TIFF is a representation of your image suited for further processing, for instance in The Gimp.

dlRaw has a GUI to open a RAW file and experiment interactively with the controls. That way you can see how different settings influence the image. The so obtained image can be written or the settings can be stored in a 'job' file. This job file is used by a command-line oriented batch mode to develop a set of RAW files.

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Remark

(1) dlRaw used to read all dcraw formats. This at the price of a lousy integration, as an adobe forum user pointed out dcraw is not the best engineered piece of software around. So moving forward I'll start with DNG, but gradually - and on request - I might add other formats to be read directly.