douglasf13
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I actually sold most of my Macs right before the A900 purchase, because I've begun building all of my own computers, so I never had a chance to try RPP with A900. All that I have left is an old G4 laptop for web use, and I can't do much photo processing with it. Iliah recommended Raw Therapee to me as a substitute for RPP, and it does a very good, albeit slow, job. He also said that his RAW Magick Lite will be available at the end of the month for A900, and I may give that a try.
Iliah is a big proponent of doing most adjustments in PS, with only very simple things being done in the RAW converter itself (he has numerous, valid reasons that I won't get into,) and he disapproves of the direction that RAW converters are going, now that they are attempting to become "do everything" boxes. While I'm not as much of a perfectionist as he is, in C1 I mostly just use a linear tone curve, tweak exposure a bit, and maybe add a bit of clarity, and then everything else is done in PS (unless it's just family photo album stuff.) RAW Therapee may have slightly better output than C1, but C1's file management and other options are much better, albeit not quite up to Lightroom. It's too bad that LR is so far behind all of the other converters in regards to actual output.
p.s. I agree with Jono that mac vs. pc arguments are usually bad vibes all around. each works very well.
Iliah is a big proponent of doing most adjustments in PS, with only very simple things being done in the RAW converter itself (he has numerous, valid reasons that I won't get into,) and he disapproves of the direction that RAW converters are going, now that they are attempting to become "do everything" boxes. While I'm not as much of a perfectionist as he is, in C1 I mostly just use a linear tone curve, tweak exposure a bit, and maybe add a bit of clarity, and then everything else is done in PS (unless it's just family photo album stuff.) RAW Therapee may have slightly better output than C1, but C1's file management and other options are much better, albeit not quite up to Lightroom. It's too bad that LR is so far behind all of the other converters in regards to actual output.
p.s. I agree with Jono that mac vs. pc arguments are usually bad vibes all around. each works very well.