How to Open RAW Photos with GIMP & Darktable or RawTherapee

In this GIMP tutorial I show you how to open RAW images in GIMP along with a free RAW image processor like Darktable or RawTherapee. Both RAW photo editing software are totally free and use automatically installed plugins that make the process of opening RAW images with GIMP super easy. I show you the entire process - from downloading and installing the free RAW software, to opening the RAW image within GIMP, to having the image processed in the RAW editor, to finally exporting the final image out of GIMP.

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[DaviesMediaDesign]

Darktable or RawTherapee - which are you using to process your RAW photos? Let me know below👇

[maximmortal]

Thank you, Michael. Congratulations on your recent 'mile mark'. You are the top 'Gimp Guru'. Keep up the good work, brother.

[Ahuka]

My experience doing this on Linux is that the automatic link between GIMP and either Darktable or RawTherapee does not work. You can manually open a RAW image in either of those apps, do your editing, then save it as a TIFF file which you can then manually open in GIMP. That is not terrible, but I wish it worked better.

[joaovtaveira]

7:24 but I don't. Please help me, I have darktable installed and working great, but not the GIMP plugin to open raw files through it. How can I solve this?

[jesse]

Thanks Michael! Another great and detailed tutorial.

[marvinzuniga]

Thank you brooo for your valuable contributions, I hope we will soon have subtitles in Spanish in your course. I need them!!!

[jessicaroberts]

Awesome! I recently downloaded Rawtherapee

[Windsorsillest]

great video🎥. I've used it more times than I can count. Thank you good sir🙏📸

[GaryParris]

Well done Mark, btw EXR holds a lot more data than TIFF, it is used in the 3D world to hold all kinds of colour and image data TIFF wasn't designed to hold. i much prefer Darktable myself, but both apps are extremely good, many would say superior to lightroom; me included.

[Myshcan]

So when the RAW file gets opened in GIMP via Darktable, is editing then done on all the RAW information? Or has it been changed to a file format with less information?

[samcraftyhands]

hi there i do not see a scan for device to import from the sd card or stick please advise i have 3.6.1

[edderohanes]

Your video shows installing Darktable, and Gimp, then importing raw file (NEF from Nikon) into the Darktable. I don't get the message that it will launch GIMP upon closing Darktable, and in fact it doesn't. My Preferences screen downs show the Darktable plugin like yours. Have I missed a step?

[GÖTEBORGSBYGGENII]

How does Gimp know I've got the Darktable installed? They will not talk to each other on my Windows10 PC.

[raymondtan]

How do I show the message box again if I have clicked on the "Don't show this message" box previously?

[Lordbaccus]

How do I composite a 3 frame HDR image?

[chriskuk]

Darktable and rawtherapee will not open Apple pro raw is there a way to do that. The image that raawtherapee opens is a very poor rendering of the photo. yet windows or basic linux photo opens image with no issue

[markcompton]

Is it possible to edit the RAW image after some GIMP work, as Photoshop does? I focus on astrophotography so need to stretch and a few other steps before using RAW adjustment capability to fix Saturation, noise, etc. (rather than those features in PS or GIMP).

[Hrubicundus]

Great video, very useful thanks. Which do you prefer, Darktable or RawTherapee?

[IIPhotography]

I think I would have mentioned 'checking' the option box for LZW compression when exporting the file as a Tif as this would have made your exported file smaller without loss of any image information... I believe LZW compression, which is like Zip'ing, only compresses the base layer information of the image so multiple layer images will impart less benefit from its use, but it is still worth having as it does not cause any compatibility issues and is really invisible to the user.

[ZorroZock]

Is there an option to auto close DarkTable immediately? I am writing a script-fu batch that is opening a RAW file. Then DarkTable appears and requires manual interaction (close) in order for the script to continue.