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Jason Dunn
05-14-2010, 06:33 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/some_it_raw' target='_blank'>http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fe...res/some_it_raw</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Forget about JPEGs. You should be working with raw files, editing your photos at their most molecular level. We compare five raw image-conversion and editing apps that promise to take your photography to a higher plane of awesomeness."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1273857338.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Curious about what raw processing software you should use? The gang at Maximum PC has pulled together a few of the top options - although it's curious they ignored <a href="http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/96937/dxo-optics-pro-6-elite-reviewed.html" target="_blank">DXO Optics</a> - and compared them to one another. It's a decent set of mini-reviews, though when the author stated that you can change ISO and shutter speed settings in a raw file, it put his article off to a bad start...I don't think he's someone who shoots or edits raw files regularly.</p><p>What do you use to process raw files? I'm still using Lightroom 2; it's one of the best pieces of software I've used, though I really wish it had automatic lens correction - that was one of my favourite things about DXO Optics.</p><p>Oh, and if you're curious, that's raw salmon in the photo above.</p>

ptyork
05-15-2010, 02:03 AM
I'm 100% Lightroom now. Lightroom 3 beta 2, actually. Because the workflow and the editing tools are so great, I don't even shoot RAW + JPEG anymore. Just RAW. I'm a little worried about losing my catalog in the move from beta (I lost a lot moving from beta 1 to beta 2), but it's worth it. I'm really happy with Adobe lately.

Jason Dunn
05-15-2010, 05:58 AM
I'm 100% Lightroom now. Lightroom 3 beta 2, actually. Because the workflow and the editing tools are so great, I don't even shoot RAW + JPEG anymore. Just RAW.

I played with the Lightroom 3 beta, and it looked really good - but I've stuck with v2 on my production machine. Adobe has some really talented developers working on Lightroom; it's a great product, and I'm happy that Adobe didn't do something stupid like price it at $899. Actually, I think they'd snag even more of the market if they dropped the price by about $100 or so...maybe even got some sort of "LE" version bundled with DSLRs.