

- #SILKYPIX JPEG PHOTOGRAPHY 3.0 PRO#
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The hills in the background should not show any halos.Ĭapture One, Lightroom, and DxO show the smallest sun without artifacts. The transition from water to reflection should have no color cast.

The transition from sky to sun should be smooth without lightness reversals or rings. I want to lower the highlights, and boost the shadows a bit. $350 ($200) is a hard price to swallow.Ĭamera ACDSee Capture One Darktable Exposure Lightroom Luminar ON1 PhotoNinja RawTherapee Silkypix Zoner DxOĪ shot of the sunset in Greece, with both the sun and its reflection in the water blowing out. Except for Capture One (and maybe Silkypix). But considering the price of my other photographic equipment, most prices in this list are pretty adequate. In terms of price, it is hard to argue with free. I'll probably buy this regardless in a sale, just because it's so affordable.

But this has changed in version 5, and I am eager to try it out!
#SILKYPIX JPEG PHOTOGRAPHY 3.0 WINDOWS#
A true Windows-only product that feels at home in Windows like none of the other programs in this list.įor the longest time, did not support Fuji X-Trans files. So much so that I only stumbled upon it one year after the original article.
#SILKYPIX JPEG PHOTOGRAPHY 3.0 PRO#
Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 10.0.3.0 ( $200)Ī Japanese RAW developer.Wasn't this a fancy image viewer a few years ago? Apparently it's now a RAW developer.Īllegedly super fast, with great sharpening and noise removal.Īnother new developer, borne out of a dedicated noise reduction tool, and with an emphasis on “intelligent” tools. ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2020 13.0 ( $9/month or $150).This one works straight on files in the file system, though, which is highly attractive to me. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but we'll see about its “normal” RAW development chops.Īnother highly regarded developer with rather traditional tools. Allegedly extremely high image quality, but no local adjustments whatsoever.Ī rather new developer, with fancy AI features such as automatic sky replacements.

Allegedly the best default color rendition, particularly for Fuji cameras.įree, works on Linux. Capture One 20.0.4 ( $29/month or $350)Įnormously expensive, even with the educational discount.Currently only available at a subscription price, but there is a “free” version available through my university. Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 7.5 ( $10/month).Allegedly, not particularly fast, with a confusing user interface. That said, I will leave all other adjustments on their default settings, to still get an impression of the general look of the programs.įree, works on Linux, very familiar to me. By limiting myself to these edits, I hope to get an unbiased idea of the various RAW developer's implementations, without needing to ask the endless “what if” of what else I could have done. But for this test, I'm explicitly not doing anything particularly artistic merely some highlight recovery, shadow recovery, and local white balance adjustments. Obviously, I am a lot more proficient in my current tool, Darktable, than in any of the others.
#SILKYPIX JPEG PHOTOGRAPHY 3.0 LICENSE#
I would prefer a file-based workflow with edits stored alongside the RAW files 2, and I would prefer a perpetual license instead of a rental contract, but I'm willing to compromize on both if it's worth it 3. I have yet to see a photograph that was ruined by them, and most RAW developers seem to do a sufficient job at them. In contrast to most other comparisons on the 'net 1, I won't concern myself too much with sharpness and noise reduction and demosaicing.
