My personal opinion is that I love DCRAW as a RAW development tool not only for experimenting but in a regular workflow.

Specially tricky to develop photographs.

However thanks to the transparency and power of its low level control, it becomes the perfect tool to perform tricky RAW developments in specific cases such as: Mi advice: to learn how to use straight DCRAW.ĭCRAW alone is not a friendly tool and because of this could not be ideal for your usual workflow. 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.

Dcraw for mac