Glen Barrington

really, is sharpen/soften the edges found in the mid-tones only and ignoring the highlights and shadows. I can imagine that using luminosity masks would be considerably more difficult. You can ...

I bet if you look at the code, it's using layers with an integrated overlay to keep the user's interface more consistent with the rest of X7.

Bit mapped editors that do layers tend to be better at that sort of thing than raw developers. (i.e. Affinity Photo, Photoshop, Corel PaintShop Pro, etc.) Replace the Sky in Infinity Photo Sky ...

I'm a photographer at heart.  If I want to go light, I take my Olympus E-M10 and a kit lens (maybe 2, depends on place).  It's FAR more relaxing to me if I can know that I have something reliable ...

That's interesting.  I don't see anything wrong with the OMDS offerings for North America.  These cameras are doing exactly what I want a camera to do.

Vincent Van Gogh only sold ONE painting in his entire life. He was generally considered an untalented hack at the time.

Unless you're a gunfighter in the old west.

I suspect you are going to have a hard time with most commercial software. My most common "Go-to" answer is ACDSee, but the WB only goes down to around 1850K. However, I vaguely remember that my ...

I thought it could mean either distribution, or invoking a 3rd party editor, so I thought I'd include a bit more detail.

Brave Browser

It does seem more private than Chrome & Edge.  And I've seen several YouTube videos on computer privacy issues that rank it and the new Brave search engine as the new 'darling' for the privacy minded.

For free, I'd say your camera brand's own raw processor.  I use OMDS (Olympus) cameras and the OM Workspace product is VERY good.  It can function as an excellent raw processor on it's own, but ...

Rather than an editor.  In many ways, one could think of it as a 'stripped-down' alternative to the basic ACDSee "Home" product, but without the full-fledged DAM, search, and with a simpler ...

So far, it's kind of nice.  No compatibility issues even with the two financial websites I've tried. (They are VERY conservative in this regard).  Works with Chrome extensions, I'm using the ...

Both are more than adequate.

I wish Topaz "good Luck" but that is NOT the direction I am headed.

The one I would recommend just happens to be free. SmartEdit Writer , It's somewhat similar to Scrivener. It claims to be geared to Novel and story writers, but it works just fine for essays and ...

Affinity Photo wasn't a Photoshop killer, but a PSP killer.  I haven't used PSP since X8, when Corel seemed to care about PSP at least a little bit.  But everything I've heard about it since tells ...

ACDSee continues to offer both, which has kept me in the ACDSee camp for quite some time.  It's been a while since I've used Luminar so I don't really know much about how they market it. I don't ...