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Posted 3/2/2008 4:58:19 PM

Post #22438

Sunnyside Sandy

Thanks Richard!

I'll give it a try:

http://www.rawtherapee.com/RAW_Compare/

Looking like it's worked. BigGrin

(Have we not got a jumping up and down Happy icon?)

Anyway, I found info about Rawtherapee via Wiki (about 2 hours ago:w00t Smile

and on the page I've hopefully linked to there are some great comparisons between major RAW Processing Softwares.

I now think I'm more confused. Smile

Rawtherapee is free and I've already got Silkypix - Which do you think is better?

At this stage, I doubt I'll buy any new software.

Nearly 1am, early night for me. Smile

If you want the rainbow - you gotta put up with the rain.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel sooooo good! Laugh

Posted 3/4/2008 1:07:29 AM

Post #22480

Sunnyside Sandy

Quick update - I downloaded Rawtherapee. Excellent compared to Silky Pix - so many more functions and options.

Played about with it for a while yesterday and managed to make some Ok photos look like a Dog's Dinner. Hehe

Should have read the Manual first. BigGrin

Here it is: http://www.rawtherapee.com/data/RAWTherapeeManual_2.3.pdf

Hope to read it and experiment some more this evening - will no doubt have many questions thereafter. Smile

If you want the rainbow - you gotta put up with the rain.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel sooooo good! Laugh

Posted 3/4/2008 2:34:50 PM

Post #22511

Zeke Smith

I would say that by far the biggest benefit to shooting in RAW is the expanded dynamic range. By definition, a jpeg will only keep 8bits whereas the raw file has 12-14 depending on your camera sensor. This enables you to import the raw and manipulate the image in 16 bit tiffs so that until you're ready to discard information you haven't lost anything. This means you prevent the banding in colors (due to their only being 2^8 possibilities) and degradation in image quality with the 8 bit in manipulation. The ability to adjust after the fact is nice but I think it's the amount of info that's in there that you can force into your image that you wouldn't have been able to with a jpg that is RAW's biggest selling point.

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Posted 3/4/2008 2:55:30 PM

Post #22513

Tonka