Raw Shooter Essentials 2005

[huynhie]

For those of you who have tried it, what are your opinions?

I am starting to prefer it over Nikon Capture.


The only thing that I dont like is that sometimes it renders oversaturated skin tones. Other then that it is fast and work very well

[PiroStitch]

I love using the program The only gripe I have about it is you can't adjust the curves, but then again usually adjusting the shadow/highlight + sharpness is enough.

[rjlhughes]

I've been having trouble getting my version of Raw shooter essentials to open.....is there a limit to the trial version?

[PiroStitch]

Bob, there shouldn't be any issues with the trial version as there aren't any limits.

[rjlhughes]

Thanks that's re-assuring,

must be my computer - pass me that hammer!

I might just unclog the bit of the mechanical brain that's full of topic reply notifications from gstark. I hope he won't be offended if I delete some of his emails. He must spend all day writing emails about updated topics I reckon.

[pippin88]

This is the only Raw conversion program I use. Simple, fast and effective, and I've still got the RAW files if I wish to use something different later.

[Onyx]

From the makers of Bibble IIRC. The layout and keyboard shortcuts all supposedly add to improve workflow.

In terms of usage I prefer it over ACR/CS2. In terms of results, I still sometimes prefer Capture... as huynhie mentioned, skintones.

Also as pippin88 pointed out, RSE doesn't alter the NEFs, it saves changes in a subdirectory. This might be an important long term issue if you consider opening a NEF in say Capture, making absolutely no changes and saving/overwriting the file, you end up with a smaller filesize.... what's being thrown out?!

[Luke Smith]

I really like how it works, the 123 thing rocks.

One thing that worries me is that I have some shots of a Black Shouldered Kite and it has very red eyes. When I open it in Capture, and when RSE is previewing the eyes are red. When RSE renders the image properly the red eyes go black.

As I can tell it doesn’t have an anti-red-eye feature so I don't know what’s going on. I'll post the raw and respective renderings when I'm home tomorrow evening.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~fou ... d_kite.htm is what the eyes look like... and they were even brighter in the sunlight.

L.