Well I decided to reply to Igor with an old PESO of mine in the Fisheye
camera thread, and couldn't find the file, it must have gone missing
when I changed PESO locations on the web. So I looked for the original
file, and since with the current discussion of RAW converters I had
downloaded a couple of new "Free" versions figured why not processes the
old Ds RAW file in one of them. So here it is, "Not So Koi." originally
taken in 2007, newly rendered with RawTherapee 5.4.
https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20Not%20so%20Koi.html
Equipment: Pentax *ist Ds w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6.
As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.
Mini Review of Raw Therapee.
My impression, is that RawTherapee has come a long way, as has my
computer, it operates almost smoothly on my 6 core AMD based PC. With
this image it gave a default rendering that was close to what you see
here. I only tweaked the white point, black point, and adjusted the
tone curve a little.
I loaded the resulting tiff into Photoshop for a little post rendering
sharpening, thought with practice I could probably do that in
RawTherapee as well, and then added my water mark.
I probably would have to use Photoshop for that anyway because Raw
Therapee doesn't seem to have a text tool, though I could be wrong about
that it seems to have everything else.
Then resized for the web, did a final micro contrast enhancement, and
saved as a jpeg once again in Photoshop.
My only Nit with RawTherapee is that it crashed while performing an
entirely unrelated task in a different directory. Not quite ready for
prime time. However for a free RAW processor, it's not bad at all. If
I wasn't already using DxO Optics Pro, I'd seriously consider it.
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