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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-18-2018, 03:24 PM
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BTW...Your note regarding supported color spaces for Affinity Photo is in error. Affinity has extensive colorspace support limited only by what is exposed by the operating system. I generally work in the so-called Melissa variant of ProPhoto RGB as a pass-through from Lightroom allowing similar rendering in both tools (Melissa is used by the Develop module). Sandy McGuffog, developer of the dcpTool utility, has made a small collection of common icc profiles available for free download from his Chromasoft site.ICM Profiles - chromasoft
(link to zip file a little way down the page)
Steve
(...no relation to McGuffog or Chromasoft...)
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-18-2018, 03:15 PM
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OK, here you go...I have several tools that are capable of RAW processing and a few others that I have tried, but primarily use Adobe Lightroom in part because of the capabilities of the package as a whole and because the other tools I have tried either were not ready for prime time or they simply suck. Here is the rundown...- Adobe Lightroom -- powerful, flexible, complete with full and uncomplicated support for a color-managed workflow and color profiling, easy pass-through to raster-editors, etc., etc, etc. (I am a modest power-user and leverage most of LR's features. I also am on v6.x and not interested in moving to CC.)
- Affinity Photo (v165.123) -- RAW converter is painfully slow and painful to actually use
- Corel Paintshop Pro X6 -- RAW converter simply sucks, enough so that I have not even looked at Aftershot Pro
- On 1 Photo Raw -- I demo'ed about six months after launch and felt that the product was definitely not ready for prime time on multiple counts. That, the capabilities of the product, and the pricing/update model were enough to give me pause for another year or so, minimum
- dcraw -- there is a reason why Dave Coffin's tool or extensions thereof is used by many Open Source photo imaging projects. It works well despite being quite basic and has sufficient hooks to be quite useful.
In practice, I use Lightroom for the bulk of my RAW processing tasks and dcraw for forensics and low level testing (e.g. evaluating some of the wild claims by users on this site). I use Affinity Photo for raster editing, usually as a pass-through ("edit in") from Lightroom. PaintShop Pro, I use for general image creation/editing even though I really should get a real drawing program.
Steve
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