An all-in-one tool for RD1 owners!

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Just wanted to alert everyone to an incredibly powerful program that is truly an all-in-one. It reads RD1 raw files directly and also incorporates the JFI B&W profiles Sean Reid appreciated. One of the reasons it may not be better known is due to the wealth of its developer, Jonathan Sachs. Mr. Sachs is an accomplished photographer who just happens to be the fellow who wrote Lotus 123. He was the technical partner behind the scenes which Mitch Kapor dominated.

In any case, after selling Lotus, he returned to his first love, photography and wrote Picture Window Pro. It is currently on its fourth version. He has never marketed the program as aggressively as he could. He really doesn't have to. PWP is truly a labor of love. He wrote the program as a photographer for photographers.

In any case his company is Digital Light and Color and can be found here. There is a trial full-featured download available. As the iconic grandmother said, "Try it, you'll like it!" For the price you can't go wrong! I have no connection with the product or the developer, I just think it's a great product!

Norman Koren, a professional photographer, has an extensive tutorial and introduction to it here .
 
Thanks for the testamonial, Jeff. I'm a happy long-time Picture Window Pro (PWP) user. One really great thing about it is that it supports the MIS Quadtone inks for really nice B&W printing on Epson printers. Just convert the B&W image to color, apply a color curve that translates into the various shades of gray ink in your printer, and print. It's how I do all my B&W printing now.

PWP does basically everything Photoshop does, except layers. And it was written for photographers by a photographer. So if you can do without layers, and don't mind not using something other than the Industry Standard, it's well worth a look.

--Peter
 
Peter:

It doesn't do layers, but it does the next best thing by allowing one to stack images, do overlays, extend dynamic range through bracketing and essentially accomplish everything one would with layers. It's capable of everything PS and had for many years features that PS did not. For example, the lens correction feature was available in PWP two years before it was available in PS.

I wasn't aware of the support for MIS Quadtone. I'll have to look into it. Thanks for the info.
 
Because of a set of weird circumstrances, I've had to buy a couple of CS2 programs, and they cost a fortune. I was aware of PWP, read about it on Norman Koren's site. But I'm Mac based...

I'm not much interested in computers or software -- I tend to use them like screwdrivers, just learning what I must. So somebody tell me -- will this new Boot Camp program make it possible for me to run PWP on the pre-Intel MACs? If so, would I have to buy Boot Camp, and then Windows, and then PWP? Or just Boot Camp and PWP?

To me, Photoshop has become less and less about photography and more and more about photo-based illustration, which I'm not interested in. It's also become unwieldy. I'm hoping that the full version of Adobe Lightroom will be everything I need, but I don't think it'll ever have layers, which I do use occasionally...

So. Boot Camp?

JC
 
John:

Not being a MAC person, it appears from the documentation that you would definitely need XP as well as Boot Camp.

You can confirm here

PWP does not use layers. It does however provide you with PS-like history functionality, and the ability to do everything PS does.
 
John Camp said:
Because of a set of weird circumstrances, I've had to buy a couple of CS2 programs, and they cost a fortune. I was aware of PWP, read about it on Norman Koren's site. But I'm Mac based...

I'm not much interested in computers or software -- I tend to use them like screwdrivers, just learning what I must. So somebody tell me -- will this new Boot Camp program make it possible for me to run PWP on the pre-Intel MACs? If so, would I have to buy Boot Camp, and then Windows, and then PWP? Or just Boot Camp and PWP?

To me, Photoshop has become less and less about photography and more and more about photo-based illustration, which I'm not interested in. It's also become unwieldy. I'm hoping that the full version of Adobe Lightroom will be everything I need, but I don't think it'll ever have layers, which I do use occasionally...

So. Boot Camp?

JC
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John, if you have an Intel-Mac there are 2 ways (for details plz read the Mac-forums):

1. with boot camp:
You need additionally a copy of Windows (full version) and possibly Windows-drivers for your hardware, you have to divide your hd into two partitions (one for MacOS, one for Windows) and install both platforms into their own partition, to switch between them you must reboot.

2. without boot camp and with "Parallels" (virtualization software):
You have to buy this software (recently beta) and need a Windows-copy also (plus possibly Windows-drivers etc.), no partitioning needed, both systems are able to run at the same time, Windows runs (natively on the intel-chip and as fast as on pc, they say) in a window (LOL) or fullscreen under MacOS, dual boot not necessary.
Cheers
 
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