Russell McMahon wrote:
>> the black magic of RAW image processing is so arcane and the
>> experience base from competent players is so vast that it is
>> almost certainly better to use somebody else's converter

> I find it hard to believe it's really all that magical.  My main
> reason for probably wanting to write my own app would be to get
> the user interface I really wanted.

> When I do get a high end digital camera I'll look into what software
> is out there for manipulating raw files, but I'm not expecting to be
> impressed.

There's a lot of effort expended on batch work flow to allow for
the conversion of entire folders (hundreds) of images at a time
with addition of IPTC metadata (e.g. your copyright notice).  It
varies by company but all the big players address it.  They are
coming from a point & click mind-set, so it's not command line
oriented, but it isn't too bad.


> Unfortunately all photograph manipulation software I've seen is very
> tedious to use and requires a lot of repetitive clickety-cliking with
> the mouse.  My Polaroid scanner software is like that.

Try VueScan from Hamrick Software (www.hamrick.com).  Free trial,
very reasonable price, pretty much 1 click per image captured once
set up.  VueScan supports ~1,2000 different scanner models.

						Lee Jones

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