John Roshka Photography

I always try to get the most from my photos which means as much info as I can. This would consider shooting RAW and using it’s features. For this, one needs a very good RAW Converter – the software that reads the real, true and full image information from the RAW file.

During my attempts of using different commercial software and reading tons of tutorials, I realised that actually it is not me who deals with those genuine pixels from my RAW file but the software I was using.

One day (can’t remember how, honestly ) I came across DCRAW, a small open source .exe file that can be used with the command line for decoding RAW files.

This is what Guillermo Luijk has to say about DCRAW: “My personal opinion is that I love DCRAW as a RAW development tool not only for experimenting but in a regular workflow. The key is to do in Photoshop all those extra features that other RAW developers can do apart from pure development, and consider DCRAW as a tool that provides a rough image without any kind of processing applied on it, just a high quality development under absolute control. “

-Getting it to work->