Hi!

Is there anyone here, who has a Nikon DSLR and is shooting in RAW? If yes - how do you deal with your .NEF images?

On a CD that came with my camera there was a program called 'Picture Project'.
Until recently I used it under Wine and was pretty happy with it. It worked slow, but it allowed me to enter IPTC information, make basic image changes (brightness, black point compensation, sharpen, rotate, crop) - almost everything I need before exporting to TIF. The exported files were with really good quality - one that I can not achieve with Ufraw or other tools. Unfortunately I had to delete my .wine dir and now I can't install Picture Project anymore - it asks for a product key?! How is that I don't know - it used to be a free program... or was it a trial version?
Anyway, this product isn't maintained by Nikon any longer. Now they offer ViewNX, which doesn't work under Wine (installs fine, but crashes when you try to do anything with it). Capture NX requires .NET and is not working too, neither under Wine, nor under Mono or pnet. Is not free either and I don't like to use illegal software.

So now I am in trouble!

I know about Ufraw and I use it, but the results I am achieving with it are not so good as they were with the Nikon utility.

I found this too: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html and thought that I could give the Photoshop "Camera Raw" plug-in a try, but unfortunately this isn't working for me too - I am on Gentoo and in order to compile pspi I need the PhotoshopAPI, which was distributed with Photoshop 6.0 only and as you may guess I don't have it, it is not available on the net anymore too.

I know I could install a virtual machine and a whole Window$ on top of it and and.... no thanks.

Please help!!! How do you deal with this situation?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Greetings,

Peter

Andrew wrote:

peter kostov wrote:

Hi!

Is there anyone here, who has a Nikon DSLR and is shooting in RAW? If yes - how do you deal with your .NEF images?

On a CD that came with my camera there was a program called 'Picture Project'.
Until recently I used it under Wine and was pretty happy with it. It worked slow, but it allowed me to enter IPTC information, make basic image changes (brightness, black point compensation, sharpen, rotate, crop) - almost everything I need before exporting to TIF. The exported files were with really good quality - one that I can not achieve with Ufraw or other tools. Unfortunately I had to delete my .wine dir and now I can't install Picture Project anymore - it asks for a product key?! How is that I don't know - it used to be a free program... or was it a trial version?
Anyway, this product isn't maintained by Nikon any longer. Now they offer ViewNX, which doesn't work under Wine (installs fine, but crashes when you try to do anything with it). Capture NX requires .NET and is not working too, neither under Wine, nor under Mono or pnet. Is not free either and I don't like to use illegal software.

So now I am in trouble!

I know about Ufraw and I use it, but the results I am achieving with it are not so good as they were with the Nikon utility.

I found this too: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html and thought that I could give the Photoshop "Camera Raw" plug-in a try, but unfortunately this isn't working for me too - I am on Gentoo and in order to compile pspi I need the PhotoshopAPI, which was distributed with Photoshop 6.0 only and as you may guess I don't have it, it is not available on the net anymore too.

I know I could install a virtual machine and a whole Window$ on top of it and and.... no thanks.

Please help!!! How do you deal with this situation?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Greetings,

Peter

Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: peter kostov

A promising approach would be to get in contact with the authors of these programs and tell them about your problems, then the might be able to help you with better settings or you might be able to help them to improve their software.

I will do this as soon as I have something that might really help them. But we are dealing here with a proprietary format and this is the main problem.

And please, do cut down the mails you're quoting to the parts you're referring to.

O.K., I will.

Peter

HTH,
Michael