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selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Ysarex wrote:

Update: I apologize -- I was wrong.

... It does open the raw file wrong. Not just poorly which it also does but incorrectly. Raw data converted to RGB data must be assigned a color space to be valid RGB data. Faststone just ignores that required step. So it is also correct to say that in opening and editing any raw file Faststone mangles the result for all raw files. ...

You might be looking at whatever color space the editor is able to display on your screen. That may depend on whether and how your monitor is calibrated.

You don't have to specify the color space until you are ready to save the results of your editing and then only if it has defaulted to something you don't want.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

selmslie wrote:

You might be looking at whatever color space the editor is able to display on your screen. That may depend on whether and how your monitor is calibrated.

You don't have to specify the color space until you are ready to save the results of your editing and then only if it has defaulted to something you don't want.

When Faststone converts a raw file it writes the result directly to disk. That output file has no assigned color space.

When Faststone opens a raw file for the limited amount of editing available you can save the result to disk and that output file has no assigned color space.

If there's anyway in the settings of the program to alter that behavior I haven't found it.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Ysarex wrote:

When Faststone converts a raw file it writes the result directly to disk. That output file has no assigned color space.

When Faststone opens a raw file for the limited amount of editing available you can save the result to disk and that output file has no assigned color space.

If there's anyway in the settings of the program to alter that behavior I haven't found it.

Don’t you have some say over what it saves?

If you save a JPEG you should be able to control the compression and color space. If you save a TIFF you should be able to decide between 8- and 16-bit and pick the color space.

I can’t see a way to pick the color space in Capture One until I am ready to Export.

I seem to recall that Lightroom was the same. But it’s been years since I used it.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

selmslie wrote:

Don’t you have some say over what it saves?

Only the file format.

selmslie wrote:

If you save a JPEG you should be able to control the compression and color space.

Only compression.

selmslie wrote:

If you save a TIFF you should be able to decide between 8- and 16-bit and pick the color space.

None of those -- 8 bit default with no choices.

selmslie wrote:

I can’t see a way to pick the color space in Capture One until I am ready to Export.

C1 allows you to set working color space and the output color space.

selmslie wrote:

I seem to recall that Lightroom was the same. But it’s been years since I used it.

LR defaults the working color space to their version of ProPhoto but you can soft proof to another color space and of course set the output color space.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Ysarex wrote:

LR defaults the working color space to their version of ProPhoto but you can soft proof to another color space and of course set the output color space.

All good reasons to pick a capable editor and ignore the others.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Soul Dr. wrote:

Here is a tutorial for raw files on an older versi... (show quote)

It's important to distinguish between a raw editor/converter with full raw editing controls, and one that uses a simple, open source. no frills, unmanaged raw decoder - David Collin's DCraw engine - to extract a viewable raster image from a raw file at the back end, and use that extracted image for editing. Faststone does not have the capability to manage the parameters typically found in raw converters. So, Ysarex is mostly correct - Faststone does not edit raw files but it does convert them - it edits the simply extracted raster files that dcraw provides. The editing experience is 100% pure jpeg (raster), not raw. Some other converters actually access the embedded jpeg preview, but Faststone actually converts the raw to a jpeg (or whatever you choose).