CR2 viewing in File Manager/Editing Program

[EwanRGR]

Photographer and former programmer who just made the jump to Linux Mint today. So far I have been quite impressed on how much of a non-event the change has been - except for my system running faster.

However, I have a large (!) number of CR2 files (RAW photos from my Canon T2i) that I need to work with. In Windows there was a program that you installed that would let the default Explorer program display the CR2 files as thumbnails, or double-click to view. Is there something similar for Mint? Also, it appears that (at least by default) GiMP doesn't support editing RAW. Is there some add-on that allows it to, or some program that would let me have similar capabilities to Photoshop Elements?

Thanks for your time and consideration!

[lmarmisa]

I hope this link could help you:

http://platonic.techfiz.info/2010/11/10 ... in-ubuntu/

[rich2005]

Maybe have a look at Photivo http://photivo.org/

It is not directly in the repo but you can easily add an ubuntu ppa.
The procedure would be
in a terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
now open up synaptic package manager, reload (the button top left) find photivo and install.



Another one to consider is http://www.darktable.org/, I haven't tried this but there is a ppa available as above.

File manager, well I use XnViewMP, not in the repo has to installed manually, maybe for later, or you probably already know 'meet-the-gimp' always possible to glean from some of the shows
http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-166 ... revisited/
or ask a question on their forum.

[EwanRGR]

Appreciate the suggestions! I'll be sure to check them out and let you know how things end up.

Thanks!

[EwanRGR]

Note that the following isn't particularly easy in Windows either.

I went to the first link mentioned which recommended using gnome-raw-thumbnailer. I installed that, opened Nautilus, and nothing. So I did a search for that, and found this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/852923

I followed the instructions in message 11 of that thread, and still nothing. So then I took the suggestion of message 13 and added in ufraw and changed the thumbnailer entry as specified.

Nautilus will now show the thumbnail IF I first open the image to view it. Is there some trick I'm missing to get it to do so just when I open the directory so I can browse the whole directory to find the images I want?

On the off chance it matters, my photos are on an external drive attached to the computer. Perhaps this only works with internal drives?

[EwanRGR]

System hit a hard freeze while I was doing something else, and when it came back up, opening the directory had the expected behaviour. So evidently it required a "restart" of Nautilus to force it to start using the changes.

Am now trying to get XnViewMP up and running. Have to DL the tar, unpack, copy the directory to the /usr/share directory, edit the Desktop file using "sudo gedit XnViewMP.desktop" to change the directory to where it ends up. Copy that file to /usr/share/desktop, and then change the permissions for the .sh file to 755 (apparently). After all that you find out it has a dependency on the LibQTWeb and LibQTSVG packages. It might be time to figure out how to package that for those who are less stubborn than I...

After all that it does work, and allows you to do simple edits with the slight issue of down-converting to 8 bit first. I'll have to take a look at a couple of the other options to see if there is something that is closer to the "ideal" workflow for me.

[EwanRGR]

Photoivo - Added the PPA, and it wasn't showing up, but if I went to that particular repository in Synaptic then I could find it. So obviously there is something about "search" that I wasn't doing right.

Did the install, started navigating to the desired directory, and as soon as it hits any directory that has a CR2 file in it the program disappears - which I presume means it's crashing. Time to check out DarkRoom and the Gimp Add-ons I guess

[rich2005]

Some more things to try:

I have a LM12 in an old laptop, not much use for graphics (XGA) but good for trying things out. so what worked.

First stop: install UFraw and DCraw, these might be pulled in as dependencies but check anyway. UFraw should show up in nautilus 'right-click-open-with'. UFraw-batch is for Gimp.

One other to look for is F-Spot, that uses UFraw and is an organising, tagging app. I think it is a pita, but only my opinion.