Silkypix vs CS4
Posted 10/01/2010 - 03:07 - Helpful Comment
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Silkypix's features are subtle. It has its own ways of applying sharpening, noise reduction, colour control, rotation/distortion/vignetting correction - with many fine controls. And the output quality is very high.
Demosaicing generally is to do with the reconstruction of the image with RAW data on a pixel level - see Wikipedia. However, in practice with Silkypix, it's a fine sharpening - to be used in addition to the other sharpening functions.
Sorry I haven't given a fuller answer; it's rather difficult to explain. I strongly suggest having a go with the free trial of Silkypix Developer Studio Pro to see for yourself.
Demosaicing generally is to do with the reconstruction of the image with RAW data on a pixel level - see Wikipedia. However, in practice with Silkypix, it's a fine sharpening - to be used in addition to the other sharpening functions.
Sorry I haven't given a fuller answer; it's rather difficult to explain. I strongly suggest having a go with the free trial of Silkypix Developer Studio Pro to see for yourself.
~Pete
Posted 10/01/2010 - 10:38
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Thanks yes maybe I will give it a try, though it's taken me long enough to learn how to use Photoshop! Is Silkypix an alternative to Photoshop or do some people use both? At the moment I do adjustments in Lightroom and then use Photoshop for any additional tweaks.
Posted 10/01/2010 - 12:18 - Helpful Comment
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Photoshop is a very different program then Silkypix and other such programs (lightroom, phase one, ect.) I don't think you can compare them like to like.
You can however compare Adobe Camera Raw with Silkypix, if you shoot in RAW and open it with Photoshop then you know what I mean.
That's the part that Silkypix will take over in your processing.
For purely photos Silkypix is enough to get a good end-results but for the creative imaging/pixel editing you need to have Photoshop (gimp).
You can however compare Adobe Camera Raw with Silkypix, if you shoot in RAW and open it with Photoshop then you know what I mean.
That's the part that Silkypix will take over in your processing.
For purely photos Silkypix is enough to get a good end-results but for the creative imaging/pixel editing you need to have Photoshop (gimp).
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Posted 10/01/2010 - 13:11
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Silkypix doesn't have many of the fancy image manipulation tools of Photoshop, and doesn't work in layers.
It's more for producing and fine tuning natural-looking high-quality photographs without too much "cheating", though it can do some special effects as well.
Some users use it in combination with Photoshop by first producing a TIFF or high-quality JPEG with Silkypix from the RAW.
Silkypix can also open and fine tune JPEGs, by the way.
It's more for producing and fine tuning natural-looking high-quality photographs without too much "cheating", though it can do some special effects as well.
Some users use it in combination with Photoshop by first producing a TIFF or high-quality JPEG with Silkypix from the RAW.
Silkypix can also open and fine tune JPEGs, by the way.
~Pete
Posted 10/01/2010 - 13:38
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Silkypix has many more features than most Raw converters, as Pete (iceblinker) says, they are subtle and buried either by their odd descriptions or behind the command menus.
It's BIG feature is the way it renders, both colour and overall IQ. Silkypix DS Pro is a big advance on v4 or v3, it's printing capability is now up to the best of any with full printer/paper colour profile support. You can print from Raw without having to save a TIFF file.
It's been my RC of choice since v2 was translated from the original Japanese.
It's BIG feature is the way it renders, both colour and overall IQ. Silkypix DS Pro is a big advance on v4 or v3, it's printing capability is now up to the best of any with full printer/paper colour profile support. You can print from Raw without having to save a TIFF file.
It's been my RC of choice since v2 was translated from the original Japanese.
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