Re: [Gimp-user] interface to ufraw -- save options

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Gary Aitken wrote:

> I'm trying to automate a process, and don't want to have to manually start ufraw.
> I could start ufraw and use its "gimp" button to transfer
> control to gimp, but that doesn't do what I want either --
> if you tell ufraw to "save" to get the .ufraw file saved, it quits;
> so then you can't transfer control to gimp.
>
> Fundamentally, I want to do the following:
>
> specify a set of raw file names to process
> specify a destination directory
> for each raw file:
>
> a.  process in ufraw
>  a1.    manual crop, etc., if desired
>  a2.    save a .ufraw file in the source directory
> b.  process in gimp
>  b1.    manual manipulation if desired
>  b2.    automatic resizing and sharpening, etc
>  b3.    automatically generate a .jpeg file in the destination directory

Is there a reason you can't save .ufraw for each file, then run ufraw
in batch mode to create TIFF files for further editing with GIMP?

I'm wondering, because it's something I used to do a lot some 4 or 5
years ago, before darktable was conceived.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org