UFRaw (originally named after its founder Udi Fuchs's Raw, the

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Unidentified Flying Raw replaced it as the full name) is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in

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s, as created by many digital cameras. UFRaw is available as both as a stand-alone program and as a plugin for

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(only on non-

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systems). As a stand-alone program, UFRaw can be invoked with a

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, or as a

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utility. UFRaw reads raw images, using

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as a back end, and supports

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via LittleCMS, allowing the user to apply input, output, and display color profiles. This allows UFRaw to support a variety of raw image formats. UFRaw has been unmaintained since 17 December 2016. GIMP 2.8.x is compatible with latest versions of ufraw. ufraw 0.19.2 is compatible with GIMP 2.8.14 in Windows XP+.

nUFRaw

nUFRaw is an actively developed fork of UFRaw. It remains open source, and is licensed under the

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. It is compatible with GIMP 2.10.22.

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nUFRaw

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