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RAW Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source RAW Processing Tools

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

There is a good range of open source Linux software that processes RAW files. Here’s our verdict. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who has a passion for digital photography.

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Camera Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Camera Tools

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers excellent software for dealing with RAW files, for remotely operating cameras, importing and processing raw data, as well as software to read, write and edit camera metadata.

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Camera Tools

cameractrls – camera controls for Linux

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

cameractrls is a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK3, GTK4) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux.

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webcamize – use your camera as a webcam

April 4, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Webcamize is software which lets you use any modern camera as a webcam on Linux—your DSLR, mirrorless, camcorder, point-and-shoot, and even some smartphones/tablets.

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Camera Tools

digiKam – professional photo management

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE. This software makes importing and organizing digital photos seamless.

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Camera Tools

RawTherapee – raw image processing software

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

RawTherapee is a cross-platform raw image processing application. RawTherapee involves the concept of non-destructive editing.

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Camera Tools

ExifTool – read, write and edit meta information

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

ExifTool is a library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files. ExifTool is a customizable set of Perl modules.

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Camera Tools

UFRaw – read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

UFRaw (The Unidentified Flying Raw) is a tool to import raw data from high-end digital cameras. It’s free and open source software.

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Camera Tools

Entangle – tethered camera control and capture

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Entangle is a program used to control digital cameras that are connected to the computer via USB. It’s free and open source software.

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Camera Tools

DCamProf – digital camera profiling tool

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

DCamProf is a command line tool for making camera profiles, and performing tasks related to camera profiles and profiling.

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Kamera – KDE integration for gphoto2 cameras

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Kamera provides a configuration tool and a KIO worker to read and write to camera devices with the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP).

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Camera Tools

nUFRaw – import and edit RAW images from digital cameras

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

The new Unidentified Flying Raw (nUFRaw) is a free and open source utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras.

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Camera Tools

darktable – photography workflow application and raw developer

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. This software manages your digital negatives in a database.

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Camera Tools

Rawstudio – read and manipulate RAW images from digital camera

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Rawstudio is an open source raw-image converter. Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-photos from many different cameras.

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Camera Tools

gphoto – digital camera software

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

gPhoto is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications, written by volunteers around the world.

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Camera Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Image Capture

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Image Capture lets you transfer images and video clips to a Mac from a camera, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or other device that has a camera. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Graphics

Best Free and Open Source Software – Graphics

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering HDR, renderers, modelers, painting, camera, photo metadata, image viewers, screen capture.

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Camera Tools

fSpy – still image camera matching software

September 25, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics

fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.

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