RAW Developer

I hooked up my camera today and realised that OS X (10.4.11) can now read those Olympus Evolt E510 RAW files, which it previously could not. This means that iPhoto can read them too, but this isn't so great for me as I don't use iPhoto. Alas Photoshop CS still no open, and Olympus haven't released a plug in, and I guess won't. So there are alternatives for RAW work. I could try Aperture or Lightroom, or upgrade to CS3, but I doubt I'll do any of those things. There is a program called RAW Developer which costs about £65 and lets you do all kinds of wonderful to all kinds of RAW images. I like, but am felling cheap and have not bought it yet. You can alter the white balance, RGB and LAB curves both on the same image, adjust highlights, shadows, saturation, sharpness, it's all great, but I feel I can't stretch to it quite yet, though am more likely to buy RAW Developer than Aperture (need faster puter) or Lightroom/Photoshop CS3 (That damned product activation seriously puts me off).


You can try out the prog in a demo mode where your photos are exported with some text printed on them (and are probably digitally watermarked or summink too).