I'm trying to find the best way to convert my raw pictures to jpeg in batch. The most obvious answer (for readers of this list) is to use dcraw but I find the colours to be washed out unless I manually adjust each picture - not an option for batch mode. As a test I did use 5 different ways to convert various pictures and put them up on http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters/raw/index.html 1. the raw .nef picture 2. m1 dcraw-plain 3. m2-dcraw-embedded (-e) 4. m3-ifrview - 5. m4-ViewNX - the manufacture provided sw 6. m5-ufraw - a dcraw rwapper with color profile Nkx_D60_5_2697_00_002_468.icm that ViewNX created when converting a picture The sad news for me is that what looks best is ViewNX - Nikons own windows only tool (might work under wine but that's not the point) When using ViewNX it does create a .icm file for many of the pictures. I suspect it is some kind of built in profile that dcraw doesn't read/use. The only real option I currently have is to use the embedded thumbnail which is large pixel wise but low quality. Is there any suggestions on how I can do the raw conversion with open source tools without loosing so much quality or having to manually fiddle around with every picture? /ps