DD> of priority or for deletion during a slideshow. My only niggles at the
DD> moment are that there's no direct access to curves (although the
DD> highlight/shadow contrast sliders and appearance selector appear to
DD> apply pre-set curves), and that the converted images look slightly
DD> different in other applications when compared with the Rawshooter preview.
DD> I now use Rawshooter instead of the Pentax software, and considering
DD> that it is free, it is excellent software that's rapidly improving.
The lack of curves and levels in the converter means to me that often
one to process all the files again, this time manually, in another
program. With levels or curves built in, one can often send the
processed files straight to print or customer or whatever, if they
don't require any local contrast/tone changes that are to be done in
Photoshop. Actually, if working in raw, I would like to produce
as much finished TIFFs as possible, it would be excellent if RAW
converters could take plugins like NoiseNinja...
They will probably soon offer a paid version with this and
other features.
WRT the converted looking different - are you viewing the result in a
CMS aware application? RSE will output files that are in the working
colour space (it can't convert them to sRGB if you want to work on
them in AdobeRGB for example). If the other application doesn't colour
manage them, they might indeed look wrong (either higher contrast and
more garish colours in case of viewing sRGB file in e.g. AdobeRGB
space, or slightly greeny and low contrast in case of viewing AdobeRGB
file, without colour management on).
Good light!
fra
