dave92029 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 I have a 30D and recently have begun shooting RAW. This has made a significant improvement in my results. I have a MS Media Center desktop and an Apple MacBook laptop. I have been looking for a RAW conversion program that I can use on both platforms. Bibble Pro apparently allows loading the software on both platforms as long as the software is used by only one user. I hve been reading several photo articles that have done conparisons of RAW conversion software and I was surprised to see the difference in results between the different programs. This surprised me because I originally thought that if you took a RAW file as originally shot, all software conversions would result in the same image before making post production modifications. Appently there are differences in the RAW conversions as well. My question is without spending $500++, what is the most realistic RAW conversion program which has good post production tools and an intuitive work flow? If the program works on both MS and Mac platform that is an added. TIA PS If this is the wron forum for this question I;m sorry, but I'm interested in what specificly works best with my Canon 30D images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandern Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 The Digital Photo Professional, which came free with your 30D, is available for both OS X and Windows, does an excellent job of conversion, and should offer you the same results on both platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawz Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 DPP or Adobe Lightroom would be my choice. Lightroom is $200, ships on tuesday and is a superb RAW converter and workflow tool. You've already got DPP. RAW conversion depends heavily on the software, and the look you get does vary with software. The Adobe converters are pretty much the default tool as they are quite good and most people have it already (ACR in Photoshop CS/CS2 and Elements 3 or later). DPP's actually pretty decent and the best way to get conversions that resemble the in-camera JPEG's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppyDigs Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I prefer DPP 2.2 over Photoshop for RAW conversation. The photos looks better as your parameter tweaks open as default, saving lots of time. Sometimes the light’s all shining on me. Other times I can barely see. - Robert Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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