

RAWTherapee is a pretty full-featured photo processor.It can open RAW images, but is not really designed for processing them


dcraw is designed as a Windows program and works from the command line! But it can also run in Linux.Darktable As the name suggests, this is something that gives you similar functionality to a Light Table, used in photo processing.There are a number of free and open source applications that can edit RAW images. But if you were a professional photographer and making a living from your photography you would probably be shooting RAW most of the time because it gives you the best control over the final results. I don’t personally bother to shoot RAW because the JPEGs on my Android are good enough for my purposes. So if you are generally happy with the JPEG photos your phone or digital camera give you, I am not going to suggest you need to change. And to be fair, for most people most of the time, cell phone photos are good enough, and in the last few years cell phone cameras have gotten quite good. If you are taking holiday snaps on your cell phone, this can be an issue. So why doesn’t everyone shoot RAW all of the time? The biggest reason is the files sizes are much larger. When trying to fix this in JPEG images you may find that you are throwing off other parts of the picture. The benefit from shooting RAW is that you can fix over- and under-exposed images better working with the unprocessed data. Android phones can also take RAW images along with the usual JPEG images. Any digital camera will take RAW photos, but consult your owners manual for details. There is not a single format for RAW, each camera manufacturer defines its own format, and some of them have multiple formats, such as Kodak with 5 formats and Canon with three.

RAW images are images that have been minimally processed from a camera sensor or other scanner. Done using GIMP 2.10.24 on Kubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS
