+1 to what Michael said.

I haven't used Darktable, but most graphics software has a concept of a device 
color profile. If your color profile is not calibrated for your device, you can 
get results that look different from what you expect.

This is a good explanation:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/75216.aspx

And this takes you through the specifics for a common calibration device:

http://www.tuqix.org/wordpress/?p=232


On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 14:31:54 Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 10:10 PM, Josh Mudge wrote:
> > Has anyone had success editing Nikon .NEF RAW photos in Linux? I tried Gimp
> > with ufraw but the colors are messed up and it looks darker than it should
> > be.
> 
> But "darker than it should be" depends entirely on the adjustments the
> viewing program is making as it displays the image--the raw data is raw
> data.  Isn't the point of raw files to give you access to the raw sensor
> values without any color adjustment or post processing, so you can make
> the image look however you need it to look?  In other words, if it's too
> dark, lighten it?  Sounds to me that the ufraw plugin is applying
> different parameters than you are used to while rendering this raw data
> to the screen.
> 
> What about the colors isn't right?


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