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(Page 1 of 4)  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.
File Formats and Camera Support
As it is traditional for raw converters Raw Shooter does not change the initial raw file but creates low and high resolution previews for image management and corrections display. The set of corrections is applied to the raw file and the result saved as a copy in jpg or tiff format.
Raw Shooter supports major camera brands and models like Canon, Nicon, Konica Minolta, Olympus, Pentax, Panasonic , and Leika. Fuji, Casio, and Codac alongside with lesser camera brands are not in the list.
Tools
White balance correction can be done in several ways – by picking a white or middle grey spot in the image, setting an auto wb, or putting in the numbers/twicking gliders. Everything is quite usual, found in most converters. There’re no presets, though.
A nice thing about WB is that when you move the picker around the image, the preview window will show how the image would like if you chose that spot as WB source. You can, as usual, check the rgb value of the spot right above histogram.
There’s also an option, designed initially for checking rgb for print, of showing those values in a small window just above the cursor:
The rgb values are also accompanied with a recommendation – whether your spot is good or unacceptable to set the WB. All of this is rather helpful and neat.
I won’t say anything about Exposure compensation, as it is as classical as it can be.
Appearance, found in Correct tab, is actually a number of presets of a set of parameters found in the same tab – fill light, shadow compensation, highlights compensation. Works well after wb correction, as the manual says. Can be a starting point for more precise corrections. There’s an option of saving a number of user presets as well. As you see, Appearance is the combination of all correct tab parameters. The one changing the most is Highlight contrast. The change of shadow, and fill light is considerably small. The WB and Exposure compensation stay the same.
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