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Raw Photo Processor (RPP) is a RAW converter, supporting almost all available digital RAW formats. Think of it as of a development machine in terms of film photography - first you have to develop your roll right, then do whatever you want with it. So this is NOT a full featured photo processing package, you will need Photoshop or some other tool to apply sharpness, cropping and so on, but you may use RPP for some very carefully picked amount of operations.
It's easy to integrate RPP with other tools, f.e. it provides special export plugin for Adobe Lightroom
The main idea behind this
The main idea behind this
What's New
Version 4.4.2:
- Added initial support for Fuji X10;
- Added generic profile for Ricoh cameras.
- New profile for Kodak SLR and Nikon D5100.
- New setting in Window menu to disable scrolling values in fields with mouse.
- Many bugfixes and small UI improvements.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Downloads:68,521 |
| Version Downloads:1,543 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Free |
| Date:05 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Raw Photo Processor (RPP) is a RAW converter, supporting almost all available digital RAW formats. Think of it as of a development machine in terms of film photography - first you have to develop your roll right, then do whatever you want with it. So this is NOT a full featured photo processing package, you will need Photoshop or some other tool to apply sharpness, cropping and so on, but you may use RPP for some very carefully picked amount of operations.
It's easy to integrate RPP with other tools, f.e. it provides special export plugin for Adobe Lightroom
The main idea behind this application is to do quality conversion without blocking shadows, clipping highlights, spoiling colors and it's all about returning that natural film-like look to your pictures.
The main idea behind this application is to do quality conversion without blocking shadows, clipping highlights, spoiling colors and it's all about returning that natural film-like look to your pictures.
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DelportF reviewed on 06 Jan 2012
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Jcraig reviewed on 08 Jul 2011
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Arvidtp reviewed on 15 May 2011
It's a little slow to use because updates need to be done manually and take a few seconds to process each time (for a 16MP image on a 3 year old dual 2.4GHz MBP), but the improved image quality is totally worth it. RPP takes longer to compute than other RAW converters because it uses 32-bit floating point math rather than integer math with most others use - which is way more accurate and gives better color resolution. As a parallel, all modern audio software uses 32-bit float processing internally, despite using 16 or 24 bit integer input and output files, because floating point processing just keeps that much more detail. I totally want that fidelity in my images too.
I love that pretty much everything can be done with the keyboard - numerically or with arrow keys - rather than just with silly sliders.
Occasionally I have run into some bugs where certain controls get grayed out when they shouldn't be, but just restarting the app fixes this, and your last settings for the current image are saved and recalled when you open it again.
The other thing I'd like is the ability to have presets so you can just save the entire settings of an image and apply it to another as a starting point. You can do this if the images are in the same folder by setting a "directory default" setting - which is great - but I'd like to be able to save those for later too.
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Likewise, Apple provides OS X native support for RAW files in iPhoto and Aperture. I can't imagine why anyone would use Raw Photo Processor unless they intend to do little or no editing of their images. Once you convert your RAW files to TIFF or JPEG, any editing you do to the converted files degrades image data and quality. If every picture you take is perfectly exposed and color balanced, this may not be a problem. For the rest, even iPhoto provides some useful photo editing tools that can take advantage of the RAW format - without degrading image quality.
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Alternatively, if you have a friend with Photoshop Lightroom 2 or Photoshop CS4, you could try using either of those to import and then export the files to DNG.
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From a fellow Sigma shooter.
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http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/dcraw.c
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Sorry for late answer - I've just noticed the question. I'd recommend to ask questions like this in email or in RPP support forum for faster turnaround.
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bbum reviewed on 14 May 2009
I had assumed I could use Canon's included software. For whatever reason, it doesn't work.
Raw Photo Processor to the rescue. It works fine and does a decent job of converting the images to a usable format.
$30 donation made.
The ease of use is lacking; trying to figure out how to create a set of settings to use for batch conversions has proven to be extremely tedious and frustrating. Once you wrestle through that, though, the conversions are quick and painless.
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Now for for the software - this little tool does exactly what it says it will do and I like it. I have been a photographer for over 50 years (yes, before digital) and a digital photographer since 1995 - cameras were VERY expensive and not too many megapixels...
And I like this app.
Period.
Keep up the good work.
Charge more - you deserve it!
Cheers.
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By the way, as an hitn for the future improvements: it would be definitely useful to have also a "Save As..." option rather than the plain "Save".
YourFun2 rated on 23 Jan 2012
dafrasa rated on 02 Dec 2011