Best RAW photo editing tool?

[Roger H. Goun]

In one way, I wish I was just getting started in digital photography today
rather than eight years ago. Now there are good free software choices. Back
then, I fought a losing battle with ufraw to get the results I wanted from
my Canon 20D.

<confession/>When the non-free Adobe Lightroom version 1 came along in beta
I tried it, fell in love, and never looked back. I haven't used much free
software for my photography in a long time, except for an occasional
smartphone app. I have a fairly complex workflow and it would be a huge
inconvenience to start over, though I've occasionally thought about it. But
it would be difficult and time consuming to learn to replicate my results.

tl;dr: I have no idea.

-- Roger


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Marc Nozell (marc at nozell.com) <
nozell at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a number of RAW image format editing tools, but they all are
> fairly complex.  My needs are usually simple -- I don't agree with the
> camera's white balance or want to salvage too light/dark images.  My camera
> is the fairly recent Sony A65 (very similar to the A75).
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for the 'best' one before I do a deep
> dive and learn all of them?
>
> The contenders:
>
> dcraw
> darkroom
> rawstudio
> rawtherapee
> ufraw (also the default tool used by gimp and f-spot)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -marc
>
> --
> Marc Nozell (marc at nozell.com) http://www.nozell.com/blog
>
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