Beware, I like Raw Therapee, but I was unable to get the last iteration
I downloaded to run on either my Win2K box or my WinXP laptop. It would
just die trying to read K20D PEF files, (didn't do so well with K20D DNG
files either). There was a long thread in their support forums about
the problem but none of the supposed solutions worked so I decided to
remove it and just use Pentax Digital Camera Utility 4. Now PDCU4 isn't
the fastest software I've ever used but Raw Therapee was actually slower
slower rendering *ist-D/Ds files, PDCU4 is much faster.
That I really miss Raw Shooter, once I got used to the funky interface,
it did everything necessary in a raw converter, quickly and
unobtrusively. It didn't force me to use their file management system,
it just worked.
On 11/26/2010 4:34 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:10 -0600, "Walter Gilbert"<[email protected]>
wrote:
That sounds like a pretty fair work-around. I'll have to give it a
try.
Thanks for the suggestion!
The Pentax software does include some basic editing functions such as
white balance adjustment, exposure adjustment etc - so you may get a
conversion that doesn't need further processing in PS7.
Another solution is to use the freeware RAW converter 'Raw Therapee'.
This has developed into a high quality converter, which is much superior
to to the Pentax software. Again, you can convert in Raw Therapee and,
if necessary, save as a TIFF for further work in Photoshop.
Here's the link
http://www.rawtherapee.com/
Cheers
Brian
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Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
-- Walt
On 11/26/2010 1:33 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
convert in Pentax Photo Lab, save as a TIFF and do
further editing in PS7
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