There are many tools which help you with editing the raw photos, but not so many are free. Because I switched form form JPEG to RAW, I was looking for free editor which can help me with this task.... and I found Darktable.
Darktable is used by many professional photographers and starting with it is not very easy.
Here are few steps how I started to use Darktable.
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