If you are shooting JPEG and you accidentally set the wrong white balance or the camera gets confused and yields an erroneous value, post processing will be a serious pain in the slider. One example of why are RAW files better than JPEGs, for instance, is the ability to change the white balance if you get it wrong on the field. This also means that you can turn what appears to be a wrecked shot into a perfectly usable image (it might depend on your skills as well, but that is besides the point). The major advantage of RAW files, also known as the "digital negatives", is that they give you complete freedom over the parameters that make up in image without compromising quality. They contain data that has to go through a demosaicing algorithm to become an RGB image.
Without going too deep into the technicalities, you have to understand that RAW files are not images per se. "What is RAW again?" is another question you might be asking yourselves in case you have just joined the digital photography boat and you are feeling RAW sick. In more mortal terms, you can process many files with little fuss and a limited number of clicks. Well, it does two things photographers need these days and that's converting RAW files to more accessible formats (JPEG and TIFF) and managing your workflow to decrease the post-processing time and to increase productivity. "So, what does it do?" you might be asking yourselves by now.
Version 3.0, the latest incarnation of the SilkyPix Developer Studio, is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Mac OS X v10.2 (Mac OS X v10.3 or later), OS X Leopard (10.5) and supports Core Duo & Universal Binary.
It is brought to you at a $149 price and 14 days of trial, with all options and functions active, so there really should not be too much trouble testing it. The SilkyPix Developer Studio is not an extremely popular RAW application but it's gaining more turf by the day, especially since distribution and development moved to US, under the umbrella of Shortcut Software. The main reason behind my fast decision is because I shoot most of the images used in product reviews and press events Softpedia's editors attend to and I have some experience with the RAW workflow. Normally, software reviews are written by my colleague, Ionut Ilascu, but when he offered me the chance to take a look at the SilkyPix Developer Studio 3.0, I quickly accepted the task.
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