Free raw software for linux

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.

Rawstudio is an open source raw-image converter written in GTK+.
Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-images from many different cameras, including Nikon and Canon. It uses dcraw.
Main features:
- Reads all dcraw supported formats
- Internal 16bit rgb
- Various post-shot controls (white balance, saturation and exposure compensation among others)
- Realtime histogram

Libkdcraw is a C++ interface around dcraw binary program used to decode RAW picture files. The library documentation is available on header files.

Libkdcraw library is used by kipi-plugins, digiKam and others kipi host programs.

Raw Print Server project is a "raw" print server that makes it possible for a computer to act as a "Socket API" or "AppSocket" print server.
This software would not exist without Sam Rushings excellent asyncore module, nor would it exist without Steve Holdens excellent explanation of that module (in his book "Python Web Programming" from New Riders, a truly outstanding book that I cant recommend enough) from which I learned enough to write this server. Im also indebted to Guido van Rossum for Python itself, which has made my life SO much easier, and to Mark Hammond for the win32all modules which are essential parts of the Windows version of the print server.
This is version 0.1 of the Raw Print Server. There are no installation instructions to speak of; I plan to write an install script to assist with getting the software up and running, but for now its all manual.
You will need a working Python 2.x system to run the print server itself, and if you are installing on Windows youll need a working set of the win32all modules from Mark Hammond (which you really ought to have anyway). To run the GUI properties program, youll need a working PyGTK module set, and on Windows that means finding a compatible GTK+ runtime also.
Finding all of the above is left as an exercise for the reader.
Okay. If you are on a recent Linux system, or any of the BSD family, you should be able to install all of the above from your original installation media, or download them from the appropriate website for your distribution.
If you are running Windows, start by getting a recent Python build from www.python.org; follow the links from that site to the win32all downloads (currently somewhere on Sourceforge).
After that, go to www.pygtk.org and follow their links to the downloads you need for Windows. Note that as of this time (October 2005), the GTK libraries normally used for the Gimp dont work with PyGTK (despite notes on the PyGTK for Windows site saying that they do), at least, not on Win9x.
Get the runtime or development libraries referenced from the PyGTK for Windows site. If you already have the Gimp installed, uninstall the GTK+ libraries you got with it before installing the alternate runtime. My Gimp still works, so it must be okay, right?
Enhancements:
- close printer when done

UFRaw-Assist project will use the command-line batch facility of UFRaw, combined with the ImageMagick Convert program to apply raw conversion on a batch of similar images.

The raw conversion can either be done on the basis of the options in the UFRaw-Assist only, an existing *.ufraw ID file created from one of the images or a "standardized" configuration file previously created.

UFRaw-Assist uses the new wavelet noise reduction facility that is being adapted for UFRaw by its creator, Udi Fuchs, on the basis of the original DCRaw by Dave Coffins. For this it is necessary to use the CVS version of UFRaw or version 0.12 when it is released.

Images can be converted to several file formats and sharpened with IMs unsharp mask facility. If so required, a web thumbnail can be generated with selected framecolors and text annotation.

UFRaw-Assist works either through a Konqueror servicemenu (select group of raw files, right-click and choose "Process raw image") or as a drop-target on the Desktop (drag and drop raw files on the desktop icon).

Raw Socket Constructor provides a tool for sending packets from the console.

Raw Socket Constructor is a tool that uses the Libsock library to create arbitrary TCP, ICMP, UDP, TCP6, ICMP6, or UDP6 packets.

GTKRawGallery software is an open source image viewer with camera raw files support written in Python and pygtk for Linux O.S.
Why should you try it? Because it has all you need from an image viewer: its very fast (tested with over than 10 Mb files) and light (less than 1900 code lines with a clean syntax for simple maintenance); finally, thanks to raw support, its the definitive solution to manage your photos!
Main features:
- Most known image formats supported;
- Camera raw files support (with DcRaw);
- 16 bit for channel color depth images recognized;
- Exif support (with exif.py);
- Detail and thumbnail view for images;
- Thumbnails zooming;
- Full-screen view;
- Zooming and rotation;
- Slideshow;
- Album manager;
- User friendly graphic interface compatible with several screen resolutions (minimum 800x600)

SMS Framework is an Objective C framework for decoding SMS messages in PDU format to objects.
It is easily usable in Cocoa and GNUstep environments, and it reduces developer responsibility for decoding messages to extracting the raw messages from the phone.
The XCode project file contains three targets: one system wide framework, one framework to include in applications, and a small application for testing the framework.
Enhancements:
- Fixes two small bugs in decoding that seem to affect international users.
- The bugs became apparent after OS X 10.4.5 appeared.