free for mac instal SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro 11.0.10.0

If somehow it provides better conversion than what I use now, ON1, I would download it and use it to convert the few photos I want the very best from to TIFFs for further processing in Affinity Photo. Nice to use when familiar with it, it simply uses different terminology to others. I used SilkyPix many years ago with Fuji files, and wow, was it's own beast. If Affinity seems to be struggling, I'll try in Silkypix instead. If I do use Silkypix, I'll do a basic RAW development and pass a 16 bit tiff to Affinity for further work. I also used Silkypix on a picture recently which raised the shadows much better than Affinity did, as it knew about the i.Dynamic setting in the camera. On other cameras, Affinity will make blown highlights pink, but Silkypix can recover something reasonable. I just recovered a blue sky from a Panasonic RAW, and a Fuji RAW, where Affinity just shows featureless white. What's more useful is it knows about what to do with nearly blown highlights. For example, it knows about the Fuji film simulations and you can apply whichever one you want (which I usually don't care about). It knows most, if not all the camera options, so by default it'll produce something which looks more like the camera will make. It's not doing a generic job, it actually knows what it's doing. What is really useful about Silkypix is it knows about the actual camera and RAW format. Most of the controls are pretty much the same as any other RAW developer.

I don't find it particularly horrible, it's got the most sensible tone curve tool I've found so far. I find Silkypix useful enough that I paid for the pro version. I did a forum search and found lots of hits, but nothing that really answered this for me. SilkyPix is just generic, and I guess likely was not designed with proprietary info from Panasonic like the Canon-provided converter is for Canon, for instance. I know that the manufacturer raw conversion software that a couple companies provide is claimed by a few people to do better conversion than third-party software, but I really wonder in this case. Finally made it to the part of my new G9's Advanced Manual (page 300, woohoo!) where it says you can download a free copy of SilkyPix Developer Studio SE8, and am wondering if it is worth the bother?

Free for mac instal SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro 11.0.10.0