What is Reddit's opinion of Rawstudio?

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The thing that stopped me shooting RAW for so long was the software (I use Linux).

I used UFRaw for a while. I'm sure UFRaw is technically brilliant, but it doesn't seem to be set-up or have the facilities (lens correction, vignetting) that you'd expect for processing RAW images.

A couple of months ago, I discovered Raw Studio and it's changed the way I do photography! I'd recommend it to anyone!

I'd like to see more exposure given to the free/libre open-source image editing tools. The subreddit's design (which is very nice, BTW!) is very Apple- and Adobe-centric at the moment (I'm looking at the images of cameras and Adobe products at the bottom!). Don't get me wrong, I understand that Photoshop and Lightroom are probably the two most used bits of post-processing software on the planet. But they aren't for everyone -- they cost money and they do not support some people's OSs.

I use the excellent Raw Studio to process raw files and I then use GIMP to further tweak them. We should show them some love, too! :o)

Working with raw images very beneficial when you need to bring out clouds. The example below was only converted to a jpeg using RawStudio -- there is no other post processing.

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I have found UFRaw almost imposable to use in practice. I'm sure that it is a capable piece of software, but it doesn't seem geared-up for photographers.

As well as Raw Therapee, I would also recommend checking out RawStudio.

Here's my attempt.

I exposed it three times from the raw (with RawStudio), once for the sky, once for the foreground and once for the girl which I wanted to boost the colours and contrast of slightly. I manually merged the three images using layer masks (with GIMP). I cropped it to a square format as well -- I thought the composition looked better that way.

Thanks for the advice man. I am about to go on a trip where we will be touring some ancient ruins. Since those are big and don't move, I figure I'll probably get lucky with a few good shots. ;-)

I have already noticed a number of those arrogant types on some forums occasionally. I'll make sure to disregard them.

I read about the dng and raw on the camera. This is all new to me. DNG seems like a good idea as far as I can tell. Either way, I have never worked with any raw format, so I will have to get used to that part. As I use mostly Linux, I was glad to find some nice looking Linux tools recommended on here such as Rawstudio. Though there are other tools like PTLens which I may want down the road that are only for Adobe on Win or Mac.

Anyway, thanks again!