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Everybody loves to click photos. But how well can you edit thousands of them together using your Mac is the big question.
Systweak has developed a brand new batch image editing app, Tweak Photos, for your Mac. It could very well be the ultimate batch editing tool you have been looking for! With Tweak Photos, editing thousands of your photos is just a matter of few clicks. It is a highly efficient tool that helps you customize as many effects as you want for a whole lot of photos. It also helps you to convert photo formats, and renaming an entire batch of photos in just one go.
Tweak Photos for Mac allows you to pick your choice of effects and apply them together on the entire batch of photos. Instead of enhancing photos one by one, which is definitely a tedious job, Tweak Photos is all about ‘CLICK.COLLECT.CONVERT’.
Here goes a brief introduction of what all you can do with Tweak Photos:
Batch Format Conversion & Rename
• Convert to and from the popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, JP2, JPG, BMP;
• Rename your batch with meaningful names with several available settings;
Re-size & Auto-correct Orientation
• Re-size your batch of photos in pixels or percentage to save space or for easy sharing;
• Auto-correct the orientation of your photos based on the EXIF info;
• Rotate/Flip your batch for portrait or landscape view;
• Crop region from your photos from the various available predefined formats or according to your choice;
Custom Enhance & Texture Effects
• Enhance and control the Brightness, Sharpness, Contrast, and more;
• Choose from the various effects like: Sepia, Black & White, Vignette, Light effects, Grunge effects, ti name just a few;
• De-Noise your entire batch of photos;
• Use RGB adjust controller to control the color contrast of multiple photos;
Watermark & Add Image
• Watermark & add logo to your batch of photos;
• Automatically stamp the photos with the original/modified Date/Time as per EXIF Info and your choice of format;
• Add text to your batch of photos and customize the font style;
• Choose from the various beautifully crafted frames like Classic, Fancy, Film Strip, Royal, Vintage, and more;
Batch Effects Layer Management
• Edit/Delete your Batch effect layers anytime during batch editing;
• Change position of layers to see the difference;
Error Reporting & processing skipped files
• Quick preview of any errors & warnings like duplicate file names, file missing etc.;
• Option to process the skipped files again without reworking;
Save Session & Favorites
• Save your last edited session for later use;
• Create a favorite with your choice of batch effects and apply during your next edit session in a just a single click;
*** No. 1 Batch Photo Editing App at Mac App Store ***
Everybody loves to click photos. But how well can you edit thousands of them together using your Mac is the big question.
Systweak has developed a brand new batch image editing app, Tweak Photos, for your Mac. It could very well be the ultimate batch editing tool you have been looking for! With Tweak Photos, editing thousands of your photos is just a matter of few clicks. It is a highly efficient tool that helps you customize as many effects as you want for a whole lot of photos. It also helps you to convert photo formats, and renaming an entire batch of photos in just one go.
Tweak Photos for Mac allows you to pick your choice of effects and apply them together on the entire batch of photos. Instead of enhancing photos one by one, which is definitely a tedious job, Tweak Photos is all about ‘CLICK.COLLECT.CONVERT’.
Here goes a brief introduction of what all you can do with Tweak Photos:
Batch Format Conversion & Rename
• Convert to and from the popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, JP2, JPG, BMP;
• Rename your batch with meaningful names with several available settings;
Re-size & Auto-correct Orientation
• Re-size your batch of photos in pixels or percentage to save space or for easy sharing;
• Auto-correct the orientation of your photos based on the EXIF info;
• Rotate/Flip your batch for portrait or landscape view;
• Crop region from your photos from the various available predefined formats or according to your choice;
Custom Enhance & Texture Effects
• Enhance and control the Brightness, Sharpness, Contrast, and more;
• Choose from the various effects like: Sepia, Black & White, Vignette, Light effects, Grunge effects, ti name just a few;
• De-Noise your entire batch of photos;
• Use RGB adjust controller to control the color contrast of multiple photos;
Watermark & Add Image
• Watermark & add logo to your batch of photos;
• Automatically stamp the photos with the original/modified Date/Time as per EXIF Info and your choice of format;
• Add text to your batch of photos and customize the font style;
• Choose from the various beautifully crafted frames like Classic, Fancy, Film Strip, Royal, Vintage, and more;
Batch Effects Layer Management
• Edit/Delete your Batch effect layers anytime during batch editing;
• Change position of layers to see the difference;
Error Reporting & processing skipped files
• Quick preview of any errors & warnings like duplicate file names, file missing etc.;
• Option to process the skipped files again without reworking;
Save Session & Favorites
• Save your last edited session for later use;
• Create a favorite with your choice of batch effects and apply during your next edit session in a just a single click;
For the Mac, the best editor that will get the most (but is not exactly easy to use) is the Raw Photo Pro processor. It can do pretty much anything to maximize the raw potential. It can do pretty much anything to maximize the raw potential.
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Best Raw Photo Editing Software for: Simplicity and cross-OS support. Phase One Capture One Pro 9. Mac & PC – £234 (£86.40 if you already have Capture One Pro 7 or 8) A long-standing favourite with studio photographers thanks to its tethered shooting capability, Capture One Pro is often aassociated with medium format users. This format provides easy viewing, editing and printing of your photographs which makes it the best choice for converting high-quality RAW photos. Movavi Video Converter is one of the fastest multimedia converting apps for PC and Mac.
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wont read hassleblad raw files
Says it reads hassleblad 3fr raw files on the web page, but said my xd1 3fr files not supported by application.
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I'm looking for a free RAW editor/converter on Windows. Can you tell me some strong/weak points of them comparing with Capture NX and/or Adobe Photoshop Elements?
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 - conversion & EXIF
- FixNEF - white balance
- RAWShooter Essentials 2006 - registration not possible anymore
EXIF editing would be a nice bonus.
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The camera manufacturer can sometimes offer an excellent RAW->JPG convertor. One reason to use the manufacturer's software is that no one else knows better how to interpret the RAW information. All the light and lens-specific data especially can be quite tricky to fully interpret and post-process by other than the manufacturer of the camera.
In the Nikon world, there's ViewNX, which ships for free with the DSLRs and is also downloadable for free here. It's excellent for first-pass editing of photos, including Exposure, White Balance, Sharpness, Contrast, Brightness, Highlight and Shadow Protection (very impressive), Color Booster, D-Lighting HS, and Axial Color Aberration. You can also do all your Metadata edits here.
Of course, it's not as full-featured as their expensive, and terribly slow pay version: CaptureNX.
UPDATE: Nikon's Capture NX-D is now free
Canon's own Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is included with every Canon DSLR. It can be downloaded for free from Canon's website, but you must have a valid camera serial number to download it. Apart from the obvious lack of no additional expense, the primary advantage to using DPP is that the same proprietary algorithms used to encode .crw and .cr2 files are used to decode them. It has a fairly full list of features of non destructive adjustments that can be made on a global level including a basic HDR tool. RAW files may be exported as 16 bit TIFFs to other image editors for further adjustment when desired. It features the Digital Lens Optimizer (DLO) which corrects for several lens aberrations (spherical aberration, curvature of field, astigmatism, comatic aberration, sagittal halo, chromatic aberration of magnification, axial chromatic aberration).
For Sony cameras it would be the Image Data converter software. It used to be two separate programs called Image data lightbox and Image data converter SR, but they combined those into one package in 2012. https://yellownewjersey964.weebly.com/horizon-editor-for-mac.html. No requirements for download, as there is for Canon and Olympus. It processes RAW files, but offers next to nothing for images already in JPEG format. Also RAW-features are limited - for example you can't crop and resize at the same go. You can convert one RAW-image, save the recipe and then apply it in a batch process to other images without a need to open each RAW-file separately.
Link to Sony eSupport software pages
Olympus offers Image Viewer 3 for Olympus camera owners. The download will not begin without a camera serial-number filled in a field on the download page. Image Viewer 3 is a nice upgrade from the old Olympus Master 2 and the not-so-old Image Viewer 2. Selection of possible operations is good for RAW and also for images already in JPEG format. When saving to JPEG you can also include IPTC info in the file.
Link to Olympus software download
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There is UFRaw, supported through GIMP on Windows.
You may also be interested in this link and site in general:
Open Source Photography -- Raw Viewers/Converters.
You may also be interested in this link and site in general:
Open Source Photography -- Raw Viewers/Converters.
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I've personally been using RawTherapee on my Windows machine for light editing for a while now, and it seems good. Granted it's not Lightroom, but when it comes it basic adjustments without the need for catalogs, presets, virtual copies, etc.. its pretty decent and does the job!
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Simplest is possibly Picasa, it supports most raw formats transparently.
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In terms of RAW conversion, Nikon's ViewNX is free and will convert Nikon RAW files (NEFs and NRWs) using what is basically a cut down version of the RAW conversion engine in Capture NX2, i.e. it does a good job if you only want to tweak basic development parameters before conversion - it allows setting of picture controls, exposure, white balance, etc. but not much more than that.
ViewNX also has some very basic editing features and metadata editing capabilities too.
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Your question seems to indicate you want to convert RAW files created with a Nikon camera. Several others have offered excellent answers when that is the case.
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For others who may be reading this question and would like to convert RAW files created on a Canon camera, there is Canon's own Digital Photo Professional (DPP) that is included with every Canon DSLR. Updates may be downloaded free from Canon's website, but you must have a previously installed version or an original disc to install the update.
Apart from the obvious lack of no additional expense, the primary advantage to using DPP is that the same proprietary algorithms used to encode .crw and .cr2 files are used to decode them.
Some of the features of DPP: View and sort images, display the thumbnail list at high resolution, batch rename files, and check shooting information. RAW adjustments include: brightness/darkness, shadows, highlights, Picture Style, contrast, skin tone, saturation, sharpness/unsharpen mask, white balance (color temperature, several presets, or custom), cropping (trim/angle/aspect ratio), auto or manual dust deletion, basic cloning/removal, Auto Lighting Optimizer, noise reduction (luminance and chrominance), lens aberration (distortion, CA, peripheral illumination, color blur), and Digital Lens Optimizer.All adjustments are non destructive and contained in a 'recipe' that is added to the file's metadata. Recipes can be saved and later applied to other files as well as batch applied to selected files. The recipe is applied to the image when converted and saved to JPEG or TIFF. DPP can convert and save files individually or in batches. You may also transfer a RAW image to Photoshop as a 16 bit TIFF.There is a basic tool that can composite several images, but it is nowhere near as advanced as using layers in Photoshop. There is also an HDR tool that can be used on 1-3 files. There is tone/color control (brightness, saturation, and contrast) and Detail Enhancement (strength, smoothness, and fineness). If you use the HDR tool on RAW files, some of the adjustments made to the image in the RAW adjustment tab are carried into the HDR module (such as color temperature, dust removal/cloning, picture style, NR) while others do not appear to be (ie: saturation and contrast, which are adjusted inside the HDR tool). You may also use the HDR tool on JPEGs or TIFFs.
Update: As devices without optical drives that are capable of running their applications are becoming more common, Canon now makes available for download a version of their software suite that does not require a previous version of the disc. You may be required to enter you camera's serial number to complete the download and/or install the software.
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You might also want check out Scarab Darkroom. It's easy to use and relatively fast. Similar to RawShooter Essentials.
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Image View (Plus More) 2.3 (disclaimer: the original author of this community wiki post is the author of the software, too) is a small footprint viewer and editor that has many (very) advanced features. It supports most raw formats and it allows you to control the development of the raw pixel data.
Most image viewers just extract the jpeg thumbnail or develop the raw data with default (e.g. bad quality Bayer conversion and some type of clipping and gamma function and using one of the white balances from the file - either 'daylight' or 'as set when photographing') . In Image View plus more you can decide how much to clip (if at all), choose between different Bayer conversions, white balance, gamma, etc. You can read the meta data, copy paste them to the clipboard, but not edit them. When you have opened the images you can then sort them, copy to new folder, batch convert (including some processing like resize, relight, sharpen, and correcting for lens distortion), or retouch them (like remove spots on the skin, or turn everything greyscale (many different types) except the foreground object, your imagination sets the limits).
The downside is that it has a disting learning curve, because the user interface is very shortcut driven (like emacs) for optimal viewing space.
You can get it here if you want to try it.
The most useful shortcut keys are:
- p: preferences (adjust raw files).
- c: Image colour control.
- f: fullscreen.
- s: slideshow (space to stop).
- Right click mouse and drag (if not centered) move the canvas around.
- +/-: zoom in/out.
- Left mouse and drag: selection box (used for white balance in image control AND in raw auto WB). Also used for statistics box, setting the size of smoothing filters, and cropping/copy paste.
Edit: I have now started making video tutorials.
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I've been using RawTherapee and ViewNX mostly, and I've recently tried Capture NX-D. So fare my favorite is RawTherapee, although I still have some issues with it. I'll list some pros and cons of the tools, based on my experience and some things that I've read here and there.
ViewNX is the simplest of the three, mainly due to the limited number of possible adjustments. Free app for mac. Its main issue in my opinion is the lack of a noise reduction and curves tool. Some adjustments, like desaturation, require the creation of a Picture Control profile and are therefore cumbersome.
Capture NX-D is much more complete, but every time I try to use it I get annoyed by the GUI. The settings are not easy to spot, buried in a tiny portion of the window, and there seem not to be shortcuts to access them.
RawTherapee has tons of different tools and adjustments, conveniently arranged in tabs. It has tonemapping, light/shadows pushing and pulling, B/W conversion and several noise reduction tools. I find the noise reduction a bit light, and the sharpening a bit too subtle (it can do little with bad focus for instance), but perhaps there's a good reason for it.
Both Nikon tools alter the RAW files when adjustments are made, although they can somehow be restored. RawTherapee, on the other hand, creates separate metadata files that store the changes, keeping the RAW files intact.
RawTherapee uses a processing queue to convert the files, according to the adjustments that have been set. Capture NX-D and ViewNX require you to select the files to convert after having made the adjustments. I find RawTherapee's approach more convenient, as I can put the pictures in the queue right after I've applied the adjustments.
I had stability issues with RawTherapee, which tends to crash when the ram gets full (I have 6 GB). This happens when browsing large folders, or processing somewhat large images. Sometimes this gets quite frustrating; fortunately the changes don't get lost, because of the meta-files. Also the processing queue is kept.