Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
big snip When UFRaw opens on my machine towards the bottom of the panel, on the left hand side, there is 'Denoise' with a slider, isn't this to remove noise? I am using Ubuntu 8.10. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
Noise Ninja works very well -- for some things. For outdoor nature shots, it works too well. Reducing noise takes the detail out of natural textures like snow, water, forests and ground cover. Noise Ninja makes great skys and clouds though. But you have to fiddle to get the rest of the detail back using the un-noise brush. But Noise Ninja is a real handy tool. Just so you know Noise Ninga is available on the Noise Ninga site (picturecode.com) in rpm and deb packages. It's proprietary, but seems to work fairly well after you take the time to set it up correctly. You can try it out for free, but must buy a license to save anything you want to keep as the demo puts a grid over the top of the picture. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
big snip When UFRaw opens on my machine towards the bottom of the panel, on the left hand side, there is 'Denoise' with a slider, isn't this to remove noise? I am using Ubuntu 8.10. Norman Well, I tried to reply using my Gmail, but don't think it went to the right place. In any event, Norman, thanks for the tip. I'm using a version of UfRaw called 0.13. When it opens, the panel you mention shows up as Threshold. I was looking for Denoiser. When I hover my pointer over that panel, I get a pop-up message that states Threshold for Wavelet Denoising. It was defaulting so that the slider was 3/4 of the way to the right - obviously causing my pictures to be blurry. Resetting using the blue circular reset arrow sends it back to zero (all the way to the left), and now my pictures are coming out normal. Thanks again for your help. Solved my problem, and now, I can take a bit of a break from XP. -- Carusoswi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
On Windows, I can go to GIMP\bin and type ufraw-batch in a Dos command window. I can also type ufraw -help and that brings up a large window full of options -- that unfortunately goes off the bottom of my screen so I can't read the whole thing. I found that if I save the configuration in ufraw, that the next file that opens uses that configuration. However, I shoot portrate mode for my panoramas and so I have to manually rotate each image as it is loaded. The configuration does not seem to save that instruction. I found out that ufraw-batch takes an ID file. But I do not know the format of the ID file or how one might generate one. I googled around for ufraw id files and found this: http://osp.wikidot.com/tutorials But this page -- which is has the UFRaw tutorial doesn't exist. http://serge.mankovski.com/photoblog/raw-processing-in-gimp/ Perhaps you can point me in the right direction again... norman wrote: Why don't you have a look at http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Guide.html there is a reference there to batch processing using ufraw-batch? Sometimes having a look around saves a lot of time and agro. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:58:14PM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: Anyhow, out of curiosity, I did boot up Ubuntu just now, tried Gimp, and it appears that, somehow, I or my system has installed UFRaw so that when I try to open a RAW photo, instead of the error message I used to receive, UFRaw opens the image for me, and I can make adjustments or just click ok after which the photo is loaded into GIMP. My problem is that all photos thus loaded are extrememely fuzzy, as though I had hit the entire image with a strong dose of Gaussian. So, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? What are you comparing to? JPEGs produced by the same camera? If you use RAW, many enhancements that your camera normally does are not done, among them sharpening. Depending on your camera you might have a setting in your camera to select how much sharpening is done on processed images. You can use either the Sharpen filter or Unsharp mask to sharpen your imported RAW photo in GIMP. -- Ville Pätsi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:58:14PM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: Anyhow, out of curiosity, I did boot up Ubuntu just now, tried Gimp, and it appears that, somehow, I or my system has installed UFRaw so that when I try to open a RAW photo, instead of the error message I used to receive, UFRaw opens the image for me, and I can make adjustments or just click ok after which the photo is loaded into GIMP. My problem is that all photos thus loaded are extrememely fuzzy, as though I had hit the entire image with a strong dose of Gaussian. So, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? What are you comparing to? JPEGs produced by the same camera? If you use RAW, many enhancements that your camera normally does are not done, among them sharpening. Depending on your camera you might have a setting in your camera to select how much sharpening is done on processed images. You can use either the Sharpen filter or Unsharp mask to sharpen your imported RAW photo in GIMP. -- Ville Patsi I am comparing to my very similar workflow from within XP (as compared to Ubuntu). The difference in XP is that I first open my imaging using Sony's Image Data Converter that came with the camera. That application does a beautiful job of minimizing noise (even from ISO 6400 images). Then, I either use CS4 or Gimp to open the file as a tiff. I never shoot using anything other than RAW. In Linux, my only converter options are UFRAW or Lightzone (which I have stopped using of late). I cannot even find the noise reduction tool in the Linux version of UFRaw (not certain there is one). I've used UFRaw in Windows, and there is most definitely a noise reduction tool, and I was, frankly, surprised at what a good job it did. I know I must have changed some setting that persists in UFRaw from one session to the next, but doggone if I can figure out what it is. Any additional suggestions most welcome. Thanks for the replies. Caruso -- Carusoswi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
Carusoswi wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:58:14PM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: Anyhow, out of curiosity, I did boot up Ubuntu just now, tried Gimp, and it appears that, somehow, I or my system has installed UFRaw so that when I try to open a RAW photo, instead of the error message I used to receive, UFRaw opens the image for me, and I can make adjustments or just click ok after which the photo is loaded into GIMP. My problem is that all photos thus loaded are extrememely fuzzy, as though I had hit the entire image with a strong dose of Gaussian. So, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? What are you comparing to? JPEGs produced by the same camera? If you use RAW, many enhancements that your camera normally does are not done, among them sharpening. Depending on your camera you might have a setting in your camera to select how much sharpening is done on processed images. You can use either the Sharpen filter or Unsharp mask to sharpen your imported RAW photo in GIMP. -- Ville Patsi I am comparing to my very similar workflow from within XP (as compared to Ubuntu). The difference in XP is that I first open my imaging using Sony's Image Data Converter that came with the camera. That application does a beautiful job of minimizing noise (even from ISO 6400 images). Then, I either use CS4 or Gimp to open the file as a tiff. I never shoot using anything other than RAW. In Linux, my only converter options are UFRAW or Lightzone (which I have stopped using of late). I cannot even find the noise reduction tool in the Linux version of UFRaw (not certain there is one). I've used UFRaw in Windows, and there is most definitely a noise reduction tool, and I was, frankly, surprised at what a good job it did. I know I must have changed some setting that persists in UFRaw from one session to the next, but doggone if I can figure out what it is. Any additional suggestions most welcome. Thanks for the replies. Caruso Just so you know Noise Ninga is available on the Noise Ninga site (picturecode.com) in rpm and deb packages. It's proprietary, but seems to work fairly well after you take the time to set it up correctly. You can try it out for free, but must buy a license to save anything you want to keep as the demo puts a grid over the top of the picture. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
So, I'm always messing around. Hadn't booted into Ubuntu in 17 days - hard to believe how fickle I am. I must have gone more than a year of hardly using XP, then, with an update in my A700's firmware, I discovered that the new version of Sony's software for the camera really worked well, and a Gimp for Windows update made it also work really well in XP, and, there you have it, I'm 17 days without having booted Ubuntu. Anyhow, out of curiosity, I did boot up Ubuntu just now, tried Gimp, and it appears that, somehow, I or my system has installed UFRaw so that when I try to open a RAW photo, instead of the error message I used to receive, UFRaw opens the image for me, and I can make adjustments or just click ok after which the photo is loaded into GIMP. My problem is that all photos thus loaded are extrememely fuzzy, as though I had hit the entire image with a strong dose of Gaussian. So, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks. Caruso -- Carusoswi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw as Gimp Plug In blurry pics. . . why?
I guess you have noise reduction enabled. Just set threshold to zero. Carusoswi wrote: My problem is that all photos thus loaded are extrememely fuzzy, as though I had hit the entire image with a strong dose of Gaussian. So, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks. Caruso With respect Alexander Rabtchevich ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
