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I’m an amateur photographer and I’m using an Olympus E-M1 Mark II camera. I take photos in RAW mode to be able. For those who know me, my computer is running on Linux and I’m using Geeqie to display RAW picture. It’s a very fast and powerful solution to display them.

In addition of displaying them quickly, it enhances the look and I really appreciate the rendering. Here is the original image (the first one) and the redered one by Geeqie (the second one):

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My objective was to reproduce it on Darktable and Lightroom without success. It’s really hard to do. I’ve made search on the web to find a solution and finaly ask help on the GitHub project. And finally I got an answer to easily convert RAW to JPG with the same enhancement than Geeqie does ! Here is the command line I’m using:

find . -name "*.ORF" | parallel -j $(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo) --will-cite \
'echo {} ; exiftool -b -PreviewImage -w .jpg {} 1>/dev/null ; exiftool -tagsfromfile {} -all:all -overwrite_original {.}.jpg 1>/dev/null'

This command will search at all ORF (Olympus RAW files) in the current directory, then use exiftool to export the embedded JPEG inside the RAW file and apply the rendering.

Hope you’ll enjoy it like me.