Hello Jack, I use it. Started with Capture One from Phase One - it was good, but a bit pricey. I tried Bibble and Lightroom and settled on SilkyPix.
For me, because of my ExpressDigital Darkroom software working with labs and online storefront, I found Lightroom to be too much - it was doing a lot of what I already had things in place for. And the penalty in speed to simply do raw conversions wasn't worth it for me. These tools all work best when you use the workflow they were designed for. So you might first examine your general workflow of how you do your pictures and then look at each tool to see how well it fits what you do. As far as an editor goes, Silkypix is much like most raw converters where it doesn't offer control beyond the entire image. So it is used to set things up and convert from raw. If you need to do further editing on a smaller portion of the image, then some other editor would be employed. I think most raw converters work this way. I believe the latest Lightroom does have some more powerful editing on smaller portions of the image. The best approach is to examine your desired workflow, get the trial version of each product and see how it fits for you. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:27:22 AM, you wrote: JD> Anyone using SILKYPIX (S-SW74)? Have an opinion as to its competency as an editing tool? JD> Am currently using PE8. JD> Thanks, JD> Jack JD> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
