How To Open RAW Files in GIMP With darktable!

Learn how to open RAW photos with GIMP plus a free RAW photo processor like Darktable or RawTherapee in this tutorial.

GIMP can use darktable to open a RAW file if the darktable executable is on the PATH. If the GIMP user opens a RAW file, then GIMP invokes darktable with some special command line parameters to get a temporary file for GIMP to work with.

Gimp is looking for a specific string when running darktable -h. That changed in 4.6 (temporarily reverted in 4.6.1); you'll need a newer version of the Gimp plugin which knows how to ask in the way that the Gimp and darktable projects agreed on to av

In this tutorial we will go to see how to install darktable, how to open and develop a Raw file with Darktable tools and finally how to import into Gimp the RAW file developed using Darktable.

The open-source tool GIMP does not support RAW images directly, but you can work with a plugin like Darktable or RAWTherapee. You can download Darktable directly from the official website.