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The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulateraw images from digital cameras.It can be used on its own or as a Gimpplug-in.It reads raw images using Dave Coffin's raw conversion utility -DCRaw.UFRaw supports color management workflow based onLittle CMS,allowing the user to apply ICC color profiles.For Nikon users UFRaw has the advantage thatit can read the camera's tone curves. Even if you don't own a Nikon,you can still apply a Nikon curve to your images.My guiding concept in the development of UFRawis to give all the essential (and somenon-essential) information and control over the raw conversion, with thehope that one could resolve all the exposure and white balance issuesduring the raw conversion. The obvious advantage is that one can makefull use of the raw data. The provisional advantage is that this way wecircumvent the current 8-bit limitation of the Gimp, as UFRaw does allmanipulations in 16-bits.There are some important features which are still missing in UFRaw:Sharpening.Embed EXIF data -UFRaw can save the EXIF data to JPEG output for a few supported formats.These formats include Canon (CRW, CR2), Nikon (NEF), Pentax (PEF),Samsung (PEF), Sony (SR2, ARW), Fuji (RAF) and Adobe's DNG.For information on how to save EXIF data for other formats you shoulduse ExifTool by Phil Harvey as is explainedhere.UFRaw was originally based on Dave Coffin's plug-in andPawel Jochym's plug-in with live preview.Joseph Heled's RougePhoto is another Gimp plug-in with some interestingfeatures.UFRaw is licensed under the GNU General Public License.This means that it is free both as in free speech and as in free beer.You are welcome to participate inUFRaw's Open Discussion Forum,browse and updatethe wiki page,file bug reports,request new features(you should read UFRaw'sMANIFEST beforerequesting new features).If you want to know when the next version of UFRaw will be released,you should subscribe to theufraw-announce mailing list (very low volume).Release annoncements are also made atFreshMeat.And if you wish to experiment with UFRaw's latest source you can checkit out from theCVS.UFRaw is covered inKlaus G lker's bookGIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software(or in the German versionFotobearbeitung und Bildgestaltung mit dem GIMP 2).French speakers might want to check out the bookD velopper ses fichiers RAW by Volker Gilbert. The book has a chapteron the different raw processing software and UFRaw gets its own section.There is also a French version of UFRaw's user manualhere.Spanish speakers might be interested in thisUFRaw tutorial in Spanish,a tutorial on getting better results from Ufraw and Gimp orthis comperhensive book.For Chinese speaker there is also auser guide.I would like to thank all the UFRaw users that contributed to itsdevelopment by sending patches, finding bugs and making insightfulsuggestions. Special thanks go to Vlado Potisk for many valuablesuggestions, Shawn Freeman for adding support for Nikon curves andthe curve editor and Niels Kristian for active participationin the development.Thanks also go to all the translators.New Traditional Chinese translation by Tetralet.Port UFRaw to OpenSolaris. Patch by James Lee.Lens distortion corrections using lensfun. This feature is now fullyimplemented and enabled by default.Added a despeckling/denoising algorithm to solve issues with images takenunder very difficult lighting conditions, like deep sea diving.It may be useful in other situations too. Patch by Frank van Maarseveen.Enabled hot pixel elimination by default.Calculate live histogram from working color-space instead of displaycolor-space. Calculate live histogram from cropped area only.Based on patches by Konrad.Added auto-crop option.Allow upto 400% zoom.New German translation by Matthias Urlichs and Chris Leick.New Simplified Chinese translation.Added --with-gtk configuration option to make GTK optional.When GTK is used, the GtkImageView library is mandatory.Added lightness adjustmens by hue. Based on patch by Bruce Guenter.Added --color-smoothing command line option.Added --maximize-window command line switch.Configurable frame lines overlay. Patch by Bruce Guenter.OpenMP support for preview redrawing. Patch by Bruce Guenter.OpenMP support for VNG interpolation. Patch by Bruce Guenter.Added rotation control to the transformations page of the GUI.Patch by Frank van Maarseveen.Initial implementation of 100% preview. Based on patchesby Frank van Maarseveen.Added support for hot pixel elimination. It is an experimental featureenabled by the configuration switch --enable-hotpixels.Based on patch by Frank van Maarseveen.Multiprocessing support using OpenMP.Patch by Bruce Guenter.Add progress report during the loading of raw files.Add JPEG optimization to reduce the file size without effecting image quality.Compatibility with the just released Exiv2-0.18.Support sRAW1 and sRAW2 formats of the Canon 50D and 5D Mark II.Some annoying bugs got squashed.Fix the "Send to Gimp" option to work with Gimp-2.6 that no longer shipsthe remote-gimp command.Output and Display intents where switched when a proofing transformation wasused.Change license from 'GPLv2' to 'GPLv2 or later'.Move save-as dialog controls to main window.Add a 'remember output path' option.Grayscale conversion. Patch by Bruce Guenter.Experimental lensfun support. Patch by Andrew Zabolotny. Enable with './configure --with-lensfun'. Read this before using it.Experimental contrast adjustment. Patch by Bruce Guenter. Enabled with './configure --enable-contrast'.Added --enable-dst-correction configuration option to use local time (with DST) for file timestamps.Arbitrary rotation support for ufraw-batch. Patch by Martin Ling.Write EXIF data to TIFF files. Requires the soon to be released Exiv2-0.18.Load private resource file $HOME/.ufraw-gtkrc at startup.Replace the "use matrix" check box with a "Color matrix" profile. Patch by Rafael Espindola.Remove misleading or irrelevant EXIF fields. Patch by Martin Ling.Added --rotate=no to ufraw-batch. This is useful for creating contact sheets. Patch by Serge Droz.Improved auto-exposure/black/curve tools by using normalized raw histogram instead of raw luminosity histogram.For JPEG output, 2x2 sampling for the chrominance components was used by default. Now for compression 90 we use 2x1 sampling and for compression 92 we use 1x1 sampling.Use predictor value 2 when saving deflated TIFFs for much better compression.Expand white balance temperature to 15000K.New Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander.New Czech translation by Milan Knizek.New Italian translation by Daniele Medri.New Dutch translation by Simon Oosthoek.New Norwegian translation by Alvin Brattli.New Serbian translation (Cyrillic and Latin) by Milo Popović.New Catalan translation by Paco Rivi re.Added 'System profile' option to read display ICC profile from theX display. Based on code from Gimp.Do not read/write display ICC profile from/to ID files.Show camera white balance in EXIF page. Patch by Erik Burrows.Automatically fit histograms to allocated height.Read Canon lens from EXIF data. Patch by Andreas Steinel.Improved PPG interpolation. Patch by Alain Desbiolles.Remember maximized state of window between sessions.Add color smoothing option to all interpolation. Based on patch byalexander melkozerov. AHD+smoothing is exactly the same as the now obsoleteEAHD.Added darkframe to GUI (patch by Bruce Guenter).Darkframe subtraction also handles hot pixels (patch by Bruce Guenter).Show spot values only if spot is selected and allow unselecting spotvalues.Add FITS output. Patch by Andreas Steinel. This option is disabled bydefault.Progressive JPEG encoding. Patch by Bruce Guenter.Blink over/under exposure in preview. Patch by Bruce Guenter.Enable --output option for stand-alone tool. It forces the output filenameto the value specified. It is useful for F-Spot. Patch by StephaneDelcroix.Reimplemented the EXIF page. Patch by Andrew Zabolotny.Display flash mode in EXIF page.Moved shrink/size controls from Save dialog to main window.Added delete button to stand-alone tool.Added 'send to Gimp' option to stand-alone tool.Made the save-as button an icon only, to save space.Added option to save as PNG 8 or 16 bits.Write EXIF data to PNG files. Based on code from DigiKam.Added aspect ratio control. Patch by Andrew Zabolotny.New Spanish translation by Enrique Jorreto Ledesma.New Polish translation by Tomasz Golinski.New Korean translation by Homin Lee.Fixed handling of non integer shrink factors.Fixed crash when spot selector reached image boundary.Some TIFF images were wrongly identified as raw file.Added image cropping. Patch contributed by Martin Ling.Added rotate/flip support. Patch contributed by Bruce Guenter.Added scrolling and panning. Based on the newGtkImageView widget byBjörn Lindqvist.Added support for dcraw's wavelet denoising. Code contributed by NielsKristian Bech Jensen.Added Patterned Pixel Grouping (PPG) Interpolation. It can be even betterthan other interpolations in some cases and much faster. Patch contributedby Alain Desbiolles.Added EAHD interpolation. It is an enhancement of the AHD interpolationwith another phase of color smoothing. The improvement is mostly seen inhigh contrast as it removes color artifacts such as chromatic aberration.Patch contributed by Michael Goertz.Read raw files compressed with gzip or bzip2. Patch contributed byBruce Guenter.Display luminosity value and Adams' zone for spot value. Patchcontributed by Greg Troxel.Added 'max zoom' (only 50% at the moment) and 'zoom to fit' buttons.Retain some hue and saturation when clipping pixels. This is onlyrelevant when applying positive exposure compensation, and mostly forCanon cameras where positive exposure is applied by default.Added a Cinepaint plug-in. Thanks to Cinepaint developerKai-Uwe Behrmann.Based the user interface more on icons and less on text.Dozens of smaller fixes.Add option to restore highlights. The restoration can be done eitherin HSV space giving sharp details or in LCH space giving soft natural details.This option is relevant when applying negative exposure correction inUFRaw.Add option for soft, filmlike clipping of highlights. This option isrelevant when applying positive exposure correction in UFRaw.Give the correct camera exposure by default for Canon DSLRs.Until now raw images from these cameras came out under exposed.For Windows users, fix conflict with the liblcms-1.dll suppliedwith the Gimp windows instaler.Added translations to Danish, Japanese and Portuguese.Apply luminosity curve and saturation corrections in LCH(ab) space.Add the '--embedded-image' option to ufraw-batch for reading theembedded preview image in raw files.Use the above code in the Gimp plug-in for a much quicker generationof the preview thumbnails.Add mime types to recognize raw files in the Gnome desktop.Add schemas to generate thumbnails for these mime types.Modify the desktop entry to associate ufraw with these mime types.If 'save ID' is set to 'never again' then .ufrawrc is not writtenafter each processed image.Add a 'Cancel' button to the 'Options' window.Fix compatibility issues with GTK+ 2.10.When handling ID files save output image in same directory as ID file.If input and output filenames in the ID file have the same path,then input filename is searched for in the path of the ID file.This allows moving raw and ID files together between folders.Add translations to French and Russian.Some bug corrections.Redirect exiv2 warnings from the terminal to the log.Fix build for some build environments (libjpeg errors).Treat Minolta's Alpha and Maxxum models as the Dynax model for WB presets.Preliminary zoom support, only up to 50% and with no scrolling.Auto white balance is much faster.Auto exposure is smarter, and hopefully better.Auto black and auto curve are much faster.EXIF data of Canon CRW files can be read using Exiv2 (not enabled by default).EXIF data of Fuji RAF files can be read using libexif (not enabled by default).White balance presets for more cameras.Fix the bug that sometimes caused a 'maze effect'.A few minor bug fixes.Much more accurate white balance temperature setting.White balance presets per camera model.Show the channel multipliers in the UI.Apply base curve before gamma curve.Fix a few general bugs.Fix camera specific bugs for Sony F828, Sigma Foveon, Nikon D2H, D1X.Enabled AHD (Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed) interpolation.Added base curve, which simulates Nikon tone curve behavior.(The old correction curve is still there.)Automatically apply the embedded custom curve only if the camerawas setup to use this curve.Support the D1X rectangular pixels.Fix EXIF support with libtiff 3.7.4.Some bug fixes.(see the user guide for more information).Support the new DCRaw color matrices for better color rendering.More controls can be set from the command-line.Preliminary EXIF support.New UFRaw ID files contain all the conversion parameters and allowfor batch conversion.New ufraw-batch replaces ufraw --batch.Numerous other changes.Notice that the new Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed interpolationis still not enabled.01/07/2005 - anOpen Discussion Forum was started.Everybody is welcome to post comments on UFRaw or other related issues.I submitted the first post regarding the latest changes to UFRaw.On this occasion I am offering the first ten poster in the new foruma free copy of UFRaw.The latest development version of UFRaw can be checked-outfrom the CVS.Read the README file for warnings on the development version.Bugs in UFRaw (in the latest stable version or in the developmentversion) can be reportedhere.Request for new features can be madehere.You should read UFRaw'sMANIFEST beforerequesting new features.If you want to know when the next version of UFRaw will be released,you should subscribe to theufraw-announce mailing list.Preview dialog is more responsive.Disable internationalization for Hebrew and Arabic (The right to leftsetting doesn't do good to the preview dialog).Bug correction - ufraw --batch did not calculate WB in some cases.Bug correction - Seg Fault for some images.Added basic color management support usingLittle CMS.Created a standalone version with a GUI interface andbatch processing support. Images can be saved in the PPM, TIFF and JPEGformats.Settings are saved between sessions in a configuration file.Added white balance temperature presets (direct sunlight,cloudy, shade, flash, etc.).Several possible live histograms.Initial (a bit slow) support for thumbnails in the Gimpopen file dialog.Many smaller changes.Added support for Nikon Tone Curves.This version can be used on the smaller 1024x768 screens.I'm finally satisfied with the Saturation control.Many small changes.

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