On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:40:31PM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit: > Well that's gone and now I need to look at different raw converters. > Some of the photoshop plugins I've been using simply refuse to work > with files produced by the K20D, I'll have to find replacements, even > if I didn't have to update to a newer picture editing program, (I'm > using Photoshop 7.0). That too produced very nice output with the > *ist-D and Ds).
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ "Unidentified Flying Raw". Free, 16 bit processing, there's a windows version, knows about PEF, there's no Photoshop plugin but it will happily produce a TIFF or PNG file (I do this two stages with the GIMP -- ufraw for white balance, brightness curves, saturation, gamma, etc. and possibly cropping; GIMP for colour balance, levels tweaking, and sharpening). It supports batch commands and saving specific settings to a file so you can hand-tweak settings for one representative raw file and then do that to all the others in that batch from the command line. (From the first image you wind up with up with _igp0020.dng, _igp0020.raw, and _igp0020.png from the first file; then use the batch commands to apply _igp0020.raw to _igp0021.dng through _igp0050.dng) Worked with the K20D even before it knew to crop off the unused sensor area. A bit of a learning curve with what all the controls do, but it allows much fine adjustment. -- Graydon -- 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.
