Easy Raw software

Dear All,
I have tried to look for an easy software, almost authomatic, to work on raw files but I had no luck despite trying 3 of them.

Any suggestions?

I do not really enjoy, or have enough time, to edit all the photos I take, and the reason I have started to shoot in RAW is the fact that they have a much better definition even than the JPG maximum quality.

Please advise, thanks in advance

If you are using Adobe Raw via Photoshop stick with it and you will find it becomes a lot easier. There are numerous videos on YouTube and on the net that will provide you with some visual guidance. I have posted a few RAW presets to help you out, you can find others on the web.

RAW PRESETS
Creating presents within Adobe RAW will save you a lot of time and provide you with a good starting point to edit your images.

Photoshop Landscape Settings
Sharpening
(Sliders)
Amount 40
Radius 0.8
Detail 50
Masking 0
Luminance 0
Colour 25
ColourDetail 50


Portrait SettingsSharpening
(Sliders)
Amount35
Radius1.2
Detail20
Masking70
Luminance 0
Colour 25
Colour Detail 50

I found Adobe Lightroom is easy to use in terms of RAW processing, but since I have learned a developed a little more using Photoshop, I no longer use Lightroom. Lots of RAW converter programmes but which one is the most simple to use I have no idea. Anyway I hope the above is of some use?

Fletcher8

Many thanks, I had no ideas there were this average value.
Are those values applicable to other softwares?

Lightroom is great for batch processing files; so you can edit multiple files all at once or with the same settings and it's a good price at the moment.

Google Picasa is a decent freebie alternative.

Yup. Lightroom's develop presets are fantastic for applying a general tweak for multiple similar pics. I do this and then apply little tweaks to individual pics.

many thanks
Does anybody know Raw Therapee?
I could not get the other 2 mentioned yet