I got around to trying out the latest version of Paint Shop Pro today (it is still in beta but should be released very shortly) and was delighted to find that it could read the RAW files from my *ist D without any additional plug ins. The tweaking you could do before pulling the image fully into the editor seemed fine to me but then I am new to the camera.
The main program itself seems better organised than before and the options to correct digital photographs pretty decent.
Anyone else had a play? I am think it is worth paying for the upgrade.
I had a quick play at about 2am last night. The "digital noise removal" tool looked to me like it uses a very similar algorithm to Neat Image, and produced a noticeable reduction in the film grain of the first image I tried it on. I'll have a proper play with it at some point and post some test images.
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