peter kostov wrote: > Hi! > > Is there anyone here, who has a Nikon DSLR and is shooting in RAW? If > yes - how do you deal with your .NEF images? > > On a CD that came with my camera there was a program called 'Picture > Project'. > Until recently I used it under Wine and was pretty happy with it. It > worked slow, but it allowed me to enter IPTC information, make basic > image changes (brightness, black point compensation, sharpen, rotate, > crop) - almost everything I need before exporting to TIF. The exported > files were with really good quality - one that I can not achieve with > Ufraw or other tools. Unfortunately I had to delete my .wine dir and > now I can't install Picture Project anymore - it asks for a product > key?! How is that I don't know - it used to be a free program... or was > it a trial version? > Anyway, this product isn't maintained by Nikon any longer. Now they > offer ViewNX, which doesn't work under Wine (installs fine, but crashes > when you try to do anything with it). Capture NX requires .NET and is > not working too, neither under Wine, nor under Mono or pnet. Is not free > either and I don't like to use illegal software. > > So now I am in trouble! > > I know about Ufraw and I use it, but the results I am achieving with it > are not so good as they were with the Nikon utility. > > I found this too: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html and > thought that I could give the Photoshop "Camera Raw" plug-in a try, but > unfortunately this isn't working for me too - I am on Gentoo and in > order to compile pspi I need the PhotoshopAPI, which was distributed > with Photoshop 6.0 only and as you may guess I don't have it, it is not > available on the net anymore too. > > I know I could install a virtual machine and a whole Window$ on top of > it and and.... no thanks. > > Please help!!! How do you deal with this situation? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! > > Greetings, > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio and Rawtherapee are two more options for converting raw files under Linux. I've tried both and personally prefer the latter (2.4). I assume they have support for .NEFs.
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