Filmulator

Version: 0.11.1 Web: https://filmulator.org

Once the exclusive domain of professional photographers, RAW images are more democratised now with most cameras, including several point-and-shoot ones, now offering RAW images to their users.

RAW files contain uncompressed and unprocessed image data, which enables photographers much more post-processing flexibility. While most desktop distros come equipped with an image viewer, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to handle RAW images, let alone edit them. That said there’s no shortage of open source RAW image editors, and you’ll be able to find one in your distro’s official repository as well.

Filmulator is part of the growing tribe of RAW image editors, and elegantly manages to combine the conveniences and usability of a normal image editor with the workflow of a professional RAW image editor. It’s available as an AppImage so you can download it from the website, give it executable permissions with chmod +x Filmulator_v.0.11.1.AppImage , and then launch it with ./Filmulator_v.0.11.1.AppImage .

Filmulator has library management options as well, and you’ll be asked to point it to your repository of RAW images on first launch. The various editing parameters in the program all have descriptive tool tips that help explain their purpose, and are worded to make sense to a novice image editor. The application also includes a helpful guide to photo editing, again written for newbies, over on its wiki.

If you’re a beginner photographer and don’t have much experience working with RAW files then Filmulator is a great way to learn the ropes and develop an image-editing workflow, while familiarising yourself with the process employed by professionals. It doesn’t include all the features that you get with some of its peers, but it has the most useful ones, and is easy to approach.

Filmulator is so named because it tries to replicate the old school process of developing a film to editing digital images.