Opening a RAW Image in Gimp

[Dunham]

I'm aware that it's possible to open Darktable through GIMP when trying to open an image in raw format, but I don't know how. I went to Artificial Intelligence and came up with the idea of creating a .sh file that calls Darktable and inserting it into the plugin section, then creating a link in Edit > Preferences > Image Import and Export. But I don't know how to do this or if it's correct. So, can anyone tell me how I can do this?

I use Linux Zorin OS

Thanks

[rich2005]

Quote:.... I went to Artificial Intelligence and came up with the idea of creating a .sh file that calls Darktable and inserting it into the plugin section,....

Just demonstrates the rubbish AI comes up with.

I could be that you are using either (or both) a flatpak / snap / appimage version of Gimp or Darktable. These are sand-boxed and not going to work together

If they are suitable versions and Zorin is based on ubuntu so maybe look at the ubuntu PPA's then
Gimp file open for the raw file
That spools out to Darktable
Do your work in Darktable then close it which...
...sends it back to Gimp
The only thing you need to look out for in Edit -> Preferences is selecting the built in Darktable option.  This an example of that using Mint.

   

Ofnuts gives good advice, why go through the gimp-darktable-gimp route when you can open the raw file in darktable do your work on it and export as a Gimp .xcf file.

[Ofnuts]

Not a good way to do things IMHO.

When you use DarkTable or RawTherapee as Gimp plugins, File > Open takes you to a full-grown RT/DT UI and while you are in there, you aren't really in Gimp, so your whole workflow is in a dangling state where you have to exit DT/RT to exit Gimp. When you get a little bit familiar with DT/RT you find that most of the tools are at least as powerful as Gimp's when not somewhat better or more suitable for photos(*).

So you end up spending most of the processing time in DT/RT and can very often skip Gimp. And if you want Gimp, then at least DT can export directly in GIMP high precision format (and both can do I precision TIFF) so there is no loss there.

So, better keep them as separate applications.

(*) My favorite example is DT's perspective/rotation tool that knows that the things to correct come from the camera's pitch/roll. And it will apply lensfun corrections at the right place in the workflow.