UFRaw 0.12.1

The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffins raw conversion utility - DCRaw.
UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply color profiles. For Nikon users UFRaw has the advantage that it can read the cameras tone curves. Even if you dont own a Nikon, you can still apply a Nikon curve to your images.
My guiding concept in the development of UFRaw is to give all the essential (and some inessential) information and control over the raw conversion, with the hope that one could resolve all the exposure and white balance issues during the raw conversion.
The obvious advantage is that one can make full use of the raw data. The provisional advantage is that this way we circumvent the current 8-bit limit of the Gimp, as UFRaw does all manipulations in 16-bits.
Main features:
- Embed EXIF information - EXIF data from Nikon NEF, Canon CR2 and Pentax PEF files is embeded in the output JPEG image. This feature is in its preliminary development stages and the EXIF data is only partially created. For other file types the EXIF data is completely ignored, which is a pity. If you are interested in saving the EXIF information, you should check the ExifTool by Phil Harvey.
- Support full color management workflow.
- Zooming and croping.
UFRaw was originally based on Dave Coffins plug-in and Pawel Jochyms plug-in with live preview. Joseph Heled also offers a Gimp plug-in with some interesting features like zooming and saving EXIF information.
UFRaw is licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means that you can use it freely. If you decide to use it, the only thing that Im asking is that you will drop me a line telling me what you think of it. I might create a database of supported cameras in the future, so it would be useful if youll tell me what camera you are using and if you would be willing to test UFRaws support of your camera in the future. You can find my e-mail address at the end of this page.
Enhancements:
- This is a bug correction version.
- Non-integer shrink factors are now handled.
- A crash which occurred when the spot selector reached an image boundary was fixed.
- Some TIFF images are no longer wrongly identified as raw files.