The situation with raw images has become strained enough that the mention of these tools may cause some readers to throw up their hands in exasperation, so let us first assure you that our use of these tools is minimal and of what you might call an accounting nature. MakeTiff uses a combination of three applications that are freely available on the web. If you still prefer your favorite, fine - it is possible, just very unlikely. If you intend to try another raw to Tiff converter please check your results working several images using both your favorite and MakeTiff. Getting the proper conversion is very tricky because current software is full of unannounced color tweaks intended to improve the image but which in this case will ruin it. The second requirement is that all input for PerfectRAW must be completely untouched in terms of color. If you already have a favorite raw conversion program, please do not assume it will work properly with PerfectRAW even if it is supposed to be able to produce linear Tiff files.īeing of linear gamma is only one of two requirements. What is different about MakeTiff in comparison to other raw converters? If you have not installed MakeTiff yet please refer to our installation instructions first. Tiff files can be opened without any color processing being applied to them so that PerfectRAW can do all the color processing. This is required for PerfectRAW because it is impossible to open raw photos with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and PhotoLine without using the host's raw converter and ruining the color. Our auxiliary program MakeTiff converts raw camera images into linear Tiff files.

MakeTiff takes care of interpolation and meta data, ColorPerfect's PerfectRAW does the color processing

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