What do you use to edit RAW Files from Panasonic / Olympus ?

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Lightroom.

mjoshi said:

I've been using LR CC for editing my Panasonic GX85 raw files. Most of things work okay except one thing the Lens Profile is not showing up i.e. When going to Lens correction, I dont see any lenses listed for Panasonic or for Olympus. I've to basically choose something for Canon or Sony with equivalent focal length.

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I use DxO PhotoLab, and have the Viewpoint and Film Pack add-ins. It's a great piece of software.

I use the cloud-based Lightroom CC Photographer Plan, which gets me LR and 1tb of storage for $10/mo, which is competitive with most other cloud storage services alone. But the main reason I use it is the ability to have all my photos synced on my pc, ipad and iphne. The LR IOS editors are excellent mobile products.

Dave

I've been living in Linux Mint for several years now, and have been using Darktable for the past 3 years or so.

Having used Lightroom for many years prior to that, I initially found Darktable perplexing. The high-level correction/retouching workflow is largely similar (starting with basic exposure stuff and moving on to color correction, spot removal, denoising, etc., and finally effects), but the tabs for those groupings, and the modules themselves, are quite different.

There weren't many Darktable videos on YouTube at that time, but in searching the interwebs I did come across a series of tutorial videos from a professional photographer in Canada named Riley Brandt, and shelled out the $50 for them. (I think they're available for $25-$30 now. Even though he's using an earlier version of Darktable in those videos, the basic functionality hasn't changed much since then, so for anyone just getting into Darktable - or thinking about it - I think they're worth it).

I'm not shooting nearly as often as I should, and therefore not using the app on a regular basis. So I'm still not as intimately familiar with all the modules, and what they can do, as I'd like to be. But Darktable had parametric masking before Lightroom did, and in general is just as powerful (if not moreso) than Lightroom in terms of RAW development, albeit with a bit of a learning curve for the interface. I'm pretty pleased with the results I'm getting from my Oly DSLRs.

The latest version just released today (3/8/19) finally has a feature I've been hoping for since I started using Darktable - importing and exporting presets for the modules. And the 2.6.0 version released at Christmas time had a couple of pretty cool new modules (Retouch and Filmic), demos of which can be found on YouTube.

Since I prefer to live in Linux and not fire up a virtual machine for photo stuff, I ended up paying the modest fee for Pixeluvo (to do any additional retouching beyond Darktable), since it has adjustment layers and the interface is fairly Photoshop-like. I really don't mind paying for decent software to be developed and available on the Linux platform.

But I also try not to be dogmatic about platform/software choices. People should use what they like and what works for them. If I was still in Windows, I might very well be forking over the monthly fee for Lightroom/Photoshop.

I agree - have used this for the last year and it works very well and is easy to use

ACDSEE PhotoStudio 2019. It does what I need and has an excellent organiser.

PeteGeordie said:

RED i said:

on Linux but its available for Windows. All my images where processed with it. It also has lens correction module you can activate.

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I've been using Silkypix (DSPro 8) for years and find it extremely good however to support my GX9 I will have to pay to upgrade to version 9 so I have spent the last couple of days evaluating different options. Darktable seems to be very impressive and I think I'll be sticking with it.

Another reason to move away from Silkypix is that there is no Linux version. I'm still running on my 2007 iMac waiting for it to stop working but it is very stubborn!! As soon as it does I'll be getting a Linux machine and running Silkypix under Wine does not appeal.

So my free opensource photo processing software will be:

Xnviewmp for importing and cataloging

Darktable for raw processing

GIMP for retouching

Now if only this damn iMac would die so I can justify a new toy!!

Cheers

Pete

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You can use Silkypix Pro 8 on Linux and it works very good. Install wine and then Silkypix. When you open Silkypix the images appear weird and distorted. Go to Settings - Display settings and uncheck the "Enable display color management". If you have color profiled your monitor and installed the profile at system level what you see in Silkypix is the same in Gimp and all the other software.

I used to have ACD See Pro..That is best for Windows (after trying light room). Now that I switched to Mac, I am just using Mac photos. It is fantastic and I bought DXO Optics Pro plugin for photos and use that to convert from RAW for complex scenes and better noise control. Otherwise Mac Photos is enough for me. I also tried Lightroom CC but no more value add compared to Mac Photos with multiple plugins.

DXO PhotoLab

Ripo said:

PeteGeordie said:

RED i said:

on Linux but its available for Windows. All my images where processed with it. It also has lens correction module you can activate.

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I've been using Silkypix (DSPro 8) for years and find it extremely good however to support my GX9 I will have to pay to upgrade to version 9 so I have spent the last couple of days evaluating different options. Darktable seems to be very impressive and I think I'll be sticking with it.

Another reason to move away from Silkypix is that there is no Linux version. I'm still running on my 2007 iMac waiting for it to stop working but it is very stubborn!! As soon as it does I'll be getting a Linux machine and running Silkypix under Wine does not appeal.

So my free opensource photo processing software will be:

Xnviewmp for importing and cataloging

Darktable for raw processing

GIMP for retouching

Now if only this damn iMac would die so I can justify a new toy!!

Cheers

Pete

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You can use Silkypix Pro 8 on Linux and it works very good. Install wine and then Silkypix. When you open Silkypix the images appear weird and distorted. Go to Settings - Display settings and uncheck the "Enable display color management". If you have color profiled your monitor and installed the profile at system level what you see in Silkypix is the same in Gimp and all the other software.

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Thanks. I did try it under wine a while back but on a really slow machine so gave up.

I really like SilkyPix default noise reduction/sharpening. It just gets it spot on 99% of the time for me. Batch processing my raw files just with default profile usually gives really good jpegs. I also like the camera colour profiles so I can apply eg l-monochrome after the event.

I have to say I spent 3 days trying to get Darktable to have acceptable noise reduction on one raw file without obliterating all detail. SilkyPix default just nailed it in 2 seconds.

Other than the NR I'm getting decent results from Darktable now but it is way more time consuming than SilkyPix.

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Pete