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Currently, I am using Adobe PS to deal with raw file. Could anyone recommend a better raw file processing software?

Thanks,

John
 
If you want custom color profiles for your camera those are extra. Rawshooter Premium recognizes most cameras and converts their raw files just fine. FWIW, I use Rawshooter Premium and Picture Window Pro but I find I rarely need Picture Window Pro.
 
Hi!

While I was using it, I had following strange experience: everything was sharp in Phase One, but once exported to a TIFF and loaded in PS it was not anymore. After I used USM in PS it was okay again.

Do you have the same problem? Or, even better, do you know how to correct it?

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Under the Focus tab did you Standard Look or Soft Look for the Sharpening Method?
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Standard

But does that make a difference? Shouldn't it be that what's on the screen, gets in the file???

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Thanks all for the advice. I use Nikon D50 and find that CS didn't recognize the setting I set with camera. Do you have the same problem? or is this just the problem of software?

Thanks,

John
 
You should try Bibble - either Bibble Lite or Pro:

http://www.bibblelabs.com/

Bibble is way more than a RAW converter - it is a workflow tool. Its, just announced, alliance with Kodak provided Bibble with a superior color engine.

Peter
 
I fully agree 100%!

I have tried them all, ACR, Bibble, Capture One, DCRaw, RSE, but the best colors and the most "non-digital" result is from SilkyPix.

I bought it before Xmas, and have been happy since. I have also used the support, and they have turned out be helpful and responsive. Highly recommended!
 
from what I've read here before, most of people agree that Nikon Capture does better job on Nikon cameras then all others regardless of the interface that it comes with, & to me it's not a surpise because they know their equipement more, well at least they should.

at the moment I'm susing NC & very happy with it.
Dave
 
jh82 said:
Currently, I am using Adobe PS to deal with raw file. Could anyone
recommend a better raw file processing software?
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I've been using PS CS's ACR as my RAW converter, but I'm getting real nervous about archival and backup/restore reasons, because PS CS requires activation from Adobe. I'd just as soon not want to deal with this 20 years down the road, if I (or a descendant) wants to work with a RAW file. I have no doubt that a Windows program will be able to be run 20 years from now (because I use 20 year old MS/DOS programs every day), but I don't want to chance it that there will be an Adobe server that will reactivate a restore of PS CS in order to run ACR.

I'd like to switch to a RAW converter that doesn't require activation. Or other forms of tricky copy protection. I have Breeze Browser, and this doesn't do anything tricky, but I'm spoiled with ACR's level of control. BB doesn't make it any more.

I have RSE and have fooled with it a bit, but the colors don't seem up to snap. Maybe the Pro version with the optional profiles solves this problem? But is it copy protected?

What PC RAW converter is comparable in power to ACR, but isn't copy protected? So I can throw it in my image archives without worrying?

Thanks.

Wayne Larmon
 
I've been using RawShooter since its inception. This is the software that convinced me to go 100% RAW.

I'd tried other methods and, while they were OK, they didn't give me the flexibility of RS.

When RawShooter Premium was released there were issues with my camera's RAW files but I was assured, via the RawShooter Forum, that these issues would be addresed rapidly. And, they were!

RawShooter has, in my opinion, the best support, short of Qimage, that I've ever experieced.

My first suggestion would be to download the trial, and, please READ THE USER GUIDE, then make judgements based on what you've learned and experienced.

Register at the RawShooter Forum site and do a search for topics and problems that you may experience and you'll, most likely, get an answer.
AFAIK, the developers of RawShooter are the originators of Capture 1.
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If you can visualize it, then create it in the camera, finish it off with the print that matches your mind's eye then you are, most likely, a master...

 
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