RAW Converter

[ABarGrill]

I've been having a dickens of a time getting PS4 to accept the new 5.6 upgrade, which allows the software to recognize newer RAW files. It keeps on telling me that I have to close Bridge for the upgrade to install. Of course Bridge is closed!

I would welcome any tips from folks that have experienced this but I am getting frustrated with Photoshop's fussiness as to upgrades. Does anyone have a RAW coverter that they like, which permits working with the image before converting it to JPEG? I would appreciate knowing about any such programs!

Thanks!

Alan

 

[Keith]

I recently had a problem with Phase One's Capture One LE wich came packaged with my M8. I went to use it recently and the software informed me that it was a trial version and had expired (which is bullsh!t) ... after contacting Phase One I was informed that they were aware of the problem, which occured when the date rolled over to 2010, but the best they could offer me was a download of an earlier version from their archives! 🙄

I am now using ACDSee Pro 3 which finally has the ability to convert Leica DNG's ... I'd been using Capture One to convert the raw files to tifs so I could post process them in my earlier version of ACDSee but now don't need to go through this dual process. I'm pretty impressed with the new version, it has everything I need and to be honest although I have photoshop on my computer I seldom use it as it confuses the hell out of me!

 

[Mauro]

I may suggest Raw Therapee (you can search fo it on the web): it is a freeware, and you can easily made it portable (so yo can install on a USB pen, and take it with you). I can recommend it: at least you can try it without wasting money.
I hope this helps

 

[downstairs]

For the Mac, RPP, Raw Photo Processor gives the best results. It takes no short cuts to speed thing up and uses floating point math. The difference in tone and definition is remarkable.

 

[charjohncarter]

I may suggest Raw Therapee (you can search fo it on the web): it is a freeware, and you can easily made it portable (so yo can install on a USB pen, and take it with you). I can recommend it: at least you can try it without wasting money.
I hope this helps

I gave up on the Adobe converter (tone problems), and I use Raw Therapee and for some things XNVIEW both freeware. Both do batch processing, although XNVIEW does not do Tiff 16 bit.