Corel RAW software?

Ann McRae

Anyone using this yet?
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Section/Display&sid=1047022946165&cid=1047024649541&gid=1047022985433&trkid=ZIREG303


free......

ann

Ann McRae

maybe this belongs in digital darkroom!
Ooooops, maybe it should get moved?


ann

Michiel de Brieder

It's good! I've only used it for one batch of images so far. But it's very usable. I didn't need photoshop for saturation, local contrast and sharpening. The only thing I'm really missing is cropping.

Ric Grupe

Yes...
...and it works just fine on my WIN XP system.

I hope Corel will release a plugin version for PhotoPaint. Certainly would make editing less tedious.

david_h

I've used it and like it, especially the speed. The only problem I have is that the quality of the converted files is not yet as good as Nikon Capture. I would settle for less speed if I could get improved quality.

Nikon Capture, is still my usual RAW software. I also use ACR from time to time and have beta tested RawMagick. RM is best for quality, but it has reached the point where a Crey Supercomputer is needed to run it.

The Corel software (which is actually RawShooter Essentials from Pixmantic) shows lots of promise however, and I'm looking forward to the next version.

Ann McRae

Hey, thanks guys. I'm going to give it a try. Also saw some positive stuff about it over at stf!


ann

Michiel de Brieder

Ann McRae wrote:

Hey, thanks guys. I'm going to give it a try. Also saw some positive stuff about it over at stf!


ann

Petteri Sulonen did a very nice review of it on the Canon D30/D60/10D/20D forum of dpreview!

David_S85

They keep updating it every week, it seems

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

Petteri Sulonen did a very nice review of it on the Canon D30/D60/10D/20D forum of dpreview!

Another recent review and ongoing diary of RawShooter here.