Originally posted by Fenwoodian Teiki, I have never used Rawtherapee, Iridient, Prime DxO Optics Pro 11, or Capture One Pro. I did try Light Room a few years ago but I did not like it so I deleted it from my computer.
However, I did buy many copies of Light Room DVDs last week as an investment once I found out that Light Room was moving to the cloud. I fully expect that I'll double or triple my money within the year.
I am seriously considering buying a copy of Luminar and giving that software a try. Anyone have any experience with that?
While I have many types of photo editing software on my computer. The only ones I'm using now are - Silkypix (expensive paid version) for K1 pixel shift DNGs, Abobe Elements for K1 DNGs (non-pixel shift), NIK's free plugins that I've installed in Elements, and of course Piccure + that I use to sharpen the TIFF files I get after converting the RAW to TIFF.
Years ago I experimented and did lots of crazy things in post. But the phase I'm in now I only do the bare minimum in post, as I try to get it right in the camera.
Hi dave,
sorry for my late answer...
I neither like LR for RAW Processing. Besides RAW process with Pentax files is worse than with Canon files. So I also gave up using LR as a RAW processor. But I use it to catalog my files and for Plug-in third softwares, it's convenient.
I use DxO Prime for noise reduction (only) for (nearly) all my files and convert them to .dng files. Then I use other RAW/TIFF processors.
RawTherapee,
Piccure +,
Iridient developer (and even LR) can process
.dng files made by
DxO Optics Pro (don't remember about Darktable). When converted to Tiff (for example processed in Piccure +),
Iridient Developer is the only one which can fix lens distortion using LCP files for
Tiff files (for my Leica-R lenses from LR) while LR itself is not able to make it (only for DNG/dng/RAW files).
Iridient Developer is a nice Raw Processor also.
RawTherapee (since v5.3) is very convenient for
Pixel Shift files (I just tried) but I do not use PS files for the moment. Piccure + is unreliable because of randomized results according to different files. Besides, target folders are very sensitive with pentax files, for example I used to push "lens rendering" at only between 3 and 7 (instead of 15) for not to have any artefacts... I do not really understand how it works, it's not repeatable for different pictures (different criterias/target folder results), it crashes with plug-in versions and processing is very slow compared to the others (although I have a modified MacPro 2009 hexacore W3680 with 48GB RAM and SSD, about two and half minutes to process). So I stopped Piccure+...
Iridient Developer, RawTherapee and Piccure+ use
RL deconvolution, not LR.
Then I use
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 for my B&W process or
Tonality CK I'm trying (made by the same team actually). I like very much Tonality CK because I can use masks and layers, I like very much Nik SEP2 for U-points. DxO team bought Nik collection and just created DxO Photolab, I hope it's a nice software rising the benefits of the two last ones (Tonality CK & Nik SEP2) at the same time... Let us see about it.
I can't tell you about Luminar because I do not use it for the moment although I like very much Tonality CK.
Capture One pro is an excellent RAW processor but I do not use it... Perhaps I should.
Last but not least, I think I shortly buy Iridient thanks to distortion Leica-R lenses correction with Tiff files and because I like it very much working with it, very quick, very simple and very efficient. Best regards, teiki.
Original DNG file in LR without any correction, as it is.
Fantasy colored with Iridient Developer and LCP distortion correction
after Dxo Prime to look like oversaturated color slide roll...
Semana santa de Alicante, Leica-R 28/2.8(II).
DxO Prime to .dng file,
Iridient Developer to Tiff file using LCP distortion correction file from LR (not color oversaturated), and
Tonality CK for B&W conversion. For fun... Originally posted by Fenwoodian P.S. Teiki, my daughter lived in San Sebastian for a year. Do you live near there?
San Sebastian is on Atlantic sea side, pays basque in Spain. I live in the other side, méditerranée sea side, in Catalogne, France, near Perpignan.
Last edited by teiki arii; 11-02-2017 at 07:38 AM.