I haven't touched RAW in 5+ years, but last time I did, I believe I came to the conclusion that rawstudio and ufraw were both okay, but one was slightly easier than the other. Unfortunately, I don't remember which was which! I was doing much the same as you, Marc, just a bit of white balance tweaking.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) > <noz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > dcraw > > darkroom > > rawstudio > > rawtherapee > > ufraw (also the default tool used by gimp and f-spot) > > Add one to the list. Fotoxx, which is my preferred tool for JPEG photo > edits, now handles RAW file natively, no longer by just shelling out > to ufraw&dcraw. Caveat, since Mike avoids integer math overflow pixel > problems by using FLOATs, so don't expect snappy performance on a > limited machine with large RAWs ! With small files or big memory it's > pretty snappy though, and just works -- more what do you want to > accomplish and less how should it do it, like a complete set of > PhotoShop / Gimp plugins, without the rest of PS/Gimp. > > I've tried all the above except rawstudio (I'll add that to my To Do > list!). I will still sometimes do Raw 'developmet' in 'ufraw' when it > needs significant exposure correction and save as TIFF16 and a resized > TIFF16 or JPEG before finishing in Fotoxx. Sufficiently that I asked > Mike to restore the Open-with-Ufraw option to Fotoxx. > > I've tried 'darktable' but haven't figured it out. I think it has > workflow promise if I ever figure it out. > > For many purposes, RawTherapee would be better for RAW us, if I didn't > have Fotoxx to do phase 2 in. Very nice selection of What do you want > knobs instead of How To Mash Pixels knobs. I should use it more. > > 'dcraw' is what Fotoxx and likely everyone else uses for batch. > Doesn't do resize-while-convert, alas. > > bill > > > > > > > > > -- > Bill Ricker > bill.n1...@gmail.com > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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