Photolemur needed a lot of memory and time (several minutes) to produce a rendering that was pretty similar to something HDR Projects can produce instantly with two clicks to select the correct pre-viewable preset (see below). The problems with Photolemur are of a different nature. Also now added Aurora HDR 2018 as I similarly got a free license via a giveaway. The recent version “with libraries”, as I’ve reported, was found by many users in several forums to be particularly buggy. In forums, Luminar has been described as “beta” software, and it’s been alleged that it has long-standing bugs. You may read more positive things about Luminar elsewhere, but be aware that they have an affiliate marketing program and the people who are telling you nice things may directly benefit through providing a sell button. Having reviewed Luminar after all the others, I can say that in the default rendering, Luminar offers nothing that would lift it above a free offering such as macOS Preview. Update: I got “free” Luminar and Photolemur licenses as part of a bundle and so have added them to the list of tested programs. Similarly, Perfectly Clear could only be installed via a download manager that had to be installed before anything else could be installed. Two versions of ACDSee for Mac also included. Problems encounteredĪll Skylum products (Photolemur, Aurora, Luminar) and ACDSee could not operate without phoning home and did therefore not receive further consideration two three Skylum products now included (but I’m not impressed), see below. Operating system was macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 for most of the Mac testing. Perfectly Clear offered no setting, and exported at 93% quality automatically – I have not done extensive testing to confirm whether it is always 93%.Īs the focus of this article is on raw conversion, Perfectly Clear was used as a stand-alone, not as a plug-in. The “high” setting seemed to correspond to approximately 90% and was chosen. Phocus offered a “high” quality setting as well as maximum and some lower settings. RPP offered nothing between 85% and 95%, so 85% was chosen. Otherwise, the default settings were accepted. When either or both options were given, quality was set to 90 and the colour profile to sRGB. Images were directly exported from the converters to JPEG. That’s all I’m going to focus on, for this as well as part 2. Images shown as part of this review are the default renderings. The test image by Beka Pukhashvili: flat picture preview as shown by Luminance HDR (same concept as ungraded video footage) Note: Later additions to this article have not all been thoroughly reviewed yet. Surprisingly, all programs seemed to support Pentax cameras as both DNG and PEF. Criteria for selection were that the software should support Pentax cameras and be usable completely offline I will mark the differences in the table. If you’re a Windows user, you may find a few names on this list that you haven’t heard of before, as they are Mac-exclusive. So here’s a big comparison of almost all the available commercial RAW converters for Mac, plus six open source ones, plus three commercial Windows-only titles. For technical reasons, it will continue to say Nov ’18 at the top, but includes software that was released after that date. Note: This article has continued to receive updates.
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