Russ,
Many of the raw converters allow you to adjust WB, histogram expansion,
highlight recovery, exposure compensation, sharpening, ect without
having to deal with a full-on image editor. Some programs even will do
light editing such as dust touch-up and local contrast/color
enhancement. I guess what I am really trying to avoid is firing up a
full blown image editor to do basic raw conversion and global editing.
If one just wants to convert the file just in order to edit it in
typical editing software I am not sure I see much advantage to shooting
raw in the first place. (But maybe I am missing something myself.)
Russ Butler wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing or misunderstanding something here as I only deal with
> raw film scans. But I assume digicam raw files are similar though
> written in camera specific formats. If not, set me straight.
>
> I'd also assume "raw conversion" for a digicam would mean converting the
> format into a general image format, e.g. tiff, so that it could be
> processed in your editor of choice where you could judge and tweak
> histogram expansion, color correction, etc. to your liking (or determine
> a standard set of parameters to be applied by the raw converter program).
>
> If my "assumes" are correct, what could be simpler or cheaper than using
> (ImageMagick) convert or dcraw via the command line or via a "send-to"
> batch file as Moose suggested and provided. (If you need any help
> writing other batch files to do the job, I and not doubt many others
> here would be glad to help.)
>
>
>
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