Adobe Lightroom
February 1, 2009
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
is more than merely a Raw converter. It’s a library for your photos, a digital darkroom for raw images, a place for compiling a gallery… It’s a working place within a comfortable environment providing anybody, from a professional to an amateur, with all the necessary tools.
There’s a lot written about Lightroom and we give here but a short review of the most essential features.
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Raw Converters - Supported Cameras
September 14, 2007
This table shows the cameras supported or unsupported by each of the raw converters reviewed in our series. However good the converter is, it’s useless if it cannot deal with the images from your camera!
Raw Shooter Premium
July 2, 2007
Raw Shooter Premium is a Pixmantec raw converter with some additional functionality. It can compare 2-4 raw images on screen at various magnifications to allow quick selection from similar shots, has an integrated downloader which gets images from card reader or camera into a selected folder on your PC. Image manipulation tools include horizon straightening and rotation, cropping, curves and levels adjustments, vibrance and colour balance. Noise suppression includes hot pixel and pattern noise. Raw Shooter Premium is aimed at improving workflow, enabling photographers to rapidly deal with the large numbers of images digital working can provide and produce the highest quality results. [Read more]
Bibble Pro
May 16, 2007
Bibble 4.9 is Professional Workflow and RAW Conversion software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It includes not only common raw enhancement tools but such instruments as Perfectly Clear or Noise Ninja. and the last version has more to offer.
We are looking at it all here.
Supported Cameras and file formats
Bibble Pro support a large variety of camera models.
The most represented brands are Nicon, Olympus, Pentax, Panasonic, and, surprisingly, Creo Leaf. Canon, Fuji, Sony, Konika Minolta, Kodak, and Leica have less than half of the models in the product line supported. Contax, Epson, Imacon, Samsung, Sigma, Mamiya, Phase One, or Casio raw files are not converted by Bibble Pro at all.
Phase One Capture One
April 24, 2007
Capture One is a Phase One product, a converter digital raw images. Capture One is oriented on batch processing, which orientation is clearly seen in the program interface and the workflow. But let’s go step by step through it.
Supported cameras and raw formats
Capture One’s range of supported cameras is somewhat limited. The most represented brands is Canon with 15 cameras, then come Nicon, Konica Minolta, and Olympus. Finally Pentax, Fuji, Epson, and, naturally, Phase One have one or two cameras represented in the list. And such limits can defer many a user from Capture One.
As for the destination file formats, Capture One allows the converted images to saved into .tiff or .jpeg file formats. When choosing .tiff you can specify the bit depth as well.
The original raw files are not modified by Capture One, you are saving their copies with all convertion settings and adjustments applied. An interesting feature of Capture One is the possibility of working with multiple versions of the same image simultaniously.
ACDSee Pro: Review of the Program
March 29, 2007
ACDSee Pro is a result of software piece developing quickly out of a small image viewer into a comprehensive image file management and editing tool.
The program that won’t give you all the flexibility of PhotoShop but will provide with basic options for smooth workflow - from photo camera to a printed image.
BreezeBrowser Pro
March 15, 2007
Breeze Browser raw converter of Breeze Browser systems provides you with a program oriented on batch raw convertion and reducing the time you inevitably spend on basic manipulations with the digital photos to minimum.
Supported Cameras and destination formats
Breeze Browser is very selective with cameras and file formats it supports, though each new version has more supported cameras and raw file formats. But Breeze Browser Pro still has a few cameras on the list: Canon, Nicon, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, Sony (embedded jpgs only), and Konica Minolta. Moreover, none of them has the whole product line supported. The most represented camera is Canon - 21 model.
Adobe Camera Raw
March 9, 2007
Camera Raw is an Adobe PhotoShop plug-in allowing convertion of raw files into editable image formats. It opens up automatically at an attempt to open a raw file through PS open menu. It also usually gains primary control over raw files opened out of a file manager.
Camera support and destination formats
Adobe Camera Raw in its latest version (3.0) can work with almost the whole range of cameras. Canon, Nicon, Olympus, and Panasonic – almost all models in the line are supported with 1 or 2 exceptions. Pentax, Fuji, Sony, Konika Minolta, Kodak, Leica, Contax, Creo Leaf, Epson, Sigma, and even Mamiya are in the list with about halves of their lines. The complete list of camera models is in the table. Each new version of Adobe Camera Raw adds new cameras to the list, both new and old models.