Quite recently Microsoft released an update/program that allows you to not only view RAW images on your Windows machine, but view the thumbnails as well.
For the longest time I was using Irfanview for RAW image viewing.
I must give full marks to Microsoft on this little patch as it’s quite useful for people such as myself who shoot mostly in RAW.
So when I entered Linux, I was equally surprised to discover you could view RAW images without anything extra!
Okay, so unlike in Windows now where you get little thumbnail previews, the RAW images load quite fast!
How to edit/convert them? Well despite Microsoft’s best efforts, you cannot edit RAW images without a third party. You may only convert them to JPEG.
My third party app has been Photoshop’s Camera RAW.
It didn’t take my long however to discover to amazing programs within Linux. RawTherapee and UFRaw.
I haven’t had too much time to dive completely head first into editing images with these programs yet, however I quickly fooled around with them.
Both seem equally impressive. Some images however I like to have a quick “auto” option which I have yet to find.
So despite Microsoft stepping up with their RAW plugin for Windows, Linux Mint has exceeded my expectations with it’s handling of RAW images!
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