Hi guys I'd more or less given up using Rawstudio for a while, but am now thrilled to be back. Sometime last year, a change in the code resulted in all my pictures looking underexposed about two stops by default, even more undersaturated than normal and so on. Harsh tweaking was necessary to get a picture that looked even remotely acceptable. Since I tend to do most of my adjustments with curves (though not the necessary exposure compensation of several stops), considering that I already needed very steep default curve to get just a decent starting point, my primary tool had become very difficult to work with. I also started observing big differences between Rawstudio's preview of an image and the JPEG it generated, and I'm fairly sure that this was not due to colour profile stuff. Add into the mix a less than perfect monitor for which I already have to do mental compensation for its shortcomings and you can see why I became so frustrated.
I started shooting in RAW+JPEG, generally just working with the JPEGs and only turned to Rawstudio when I wanted to extract more detail from the RAW than was in the JPEG. I sorely missed Rawstudio's sorting mechanism, but I couldn't live with the rest of it. Just an hour ago I installed the latest daily build, and lo and behold, I can choose a colour profile for my picture that yields an image identical to my camera's JPEGs (except for in-camera JPEG adjustments, naturally). I'm very, very happy to be back in the fold. I've sorely missed my old workflow as well as being able to apply harsh transformations outside the fragile world of 8 bits per colour channel. So thank you, guys! Beer's on me. :-) Now I'd just love for it to either just grab the nearest profile as default or to be able to copy-paste the colour profile along with other settings. Setting it by hand for each picture is rather tedious. Martin _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
