Re: RAW images look great in GQView, how does it do it?

Hi Patrick,

I think that GQview uses thumbnails created by camera. To extract it
from raw files you can use dcraw:
dcraw -e <raw files>

Patrick napsal(a):
> I have a Nikon camera that I was convinced to set to write RAW image
> files. GQview can open and view these raw files and they look great.
> 
> When I use a program like ufraw-batch to convert them to jpeg they
> look horrible! Very dark and useless. I have tried to tweak ufraw to
> produce similar results to gqview but it is very time consuming and it
> is not something I want to waste time doing. And it never looks as
> good as gqview anyway!
> 
> How does gqview make the nef files look so good when ufraw makes them
> look so bad? How do I duplicate what gqview is doing and create jpg
> files?
> 
> Thank you for any help!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> ps here is an example! It is a rather large png screen shot. ufraw
> output on the left, gqview viewing the nef file on the right.
> http://www.patbert.com/screencaps/snap050307-1.png
> 
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