In addition to this it is usual that a new feature or improvement appears every month, so any front-end gets quickly old fashioned. There are several front-end interfaces that make DCRAW more easy to use such as UFRAW, although in my opinion they lack of that extra of power and flexibility that DCRAW provides for not presenting to the user all its options in a straightforward way. In this tutorial we will make use of the Windows version although it will work exactly the same way in the other two platforms since DCRAW has no graphic user interface being a 100% command line application.ĭCRAW requires no installation, just copy the executable file into the appropiate pathname and invoque it from a terminal console. And so far he has achieved that.ĭCRAW works in Linux so as in Windows and Mac. In words from the author: 'So here is my mission: write and maintain an ANSI C program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system'.
WHAT IS DCRAW DCRAW is a free distribution RAW developer coded by David Coffin which supports and endless list of RAW formats expanding continuously.
