On 2/27/2012 10:43 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Hi Walt
Quoting Walt Gilbert <[email protected]>:
I just now discovered that IrfanView has a plugin that will allow it
to open DNG an PEF files. I can't believe I didn't know this before.
I've been using it since version 1.something and I never had the
first inkling that it would do that. It is now my single favorite
image app in the whole wide world.
Has this been common knowledge, or is it a relatively new development?
No - it's been available for as long as I can remember. It's probably
using DCRaw to read the files.
Several other image viewers can also open DNG\PEF. I prefer XnView or
Faststone to Irfanview, but there's not much between them. I think
they all convert the raw files to 8 bit colour, so they have limited
use for raw conversion.
Wow! It blows my mind that I'm just now learning this. IrfanView gets
along much better with Photoshop .8BF plugins than GIMP does -- at least
in my experience, and there are a lot of PS plugins I like to use.
Unfortunately, GIMP doesn't handle .PEF and .DNG without using another
plugin (like UFRaw), and it really doesn't seem to like using that in
conjunction with the .8BF plugins.
But, with IrfanView, I can use PS plugins to manipulate RAW files and
then send them to UFRaw to convert them to 16-bit .jpeg. And any editing
from that point I can do in either GIMP or Picasa, as needed. So, this
is kind of a big deal for me -- which probably says more about my life
than is prudent to reveal, but there you have it.
-- Walt
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