Concerning RAW converters, I've been fooling around with SilyPix for the last few weeks and am just amazed at its performance. All the normal tweaks, plus superior sharpening, noise reduction, curves, cropping, fine rotation, perspective correction (they call it Digital Shift because it emulates a shift lens) and probably more that I haven't found yet. The full version eliminates the need for an outside editor for the most part. The crippled version is free forever, full version is $140US (ouch), and you can activate a two week trial of the full version in the startup dialog.
I'm waiting to see if Pentax allows us to upgrade to Photo Lab 3 when it's released with the SP engine. The screenshots of the interface on the web now seem to show similar controls and functions, but the text is Japanese so I can't tell for sure. You can try the freebie here: http://www.silkypix.com Lou -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
