What are you switching to?

[ferdinand-paris]

Has anybody heard of or better yet tried nama5 Raw processor? https://nama5.com/en/overview.html

Not until now. I'd be interested in any reports. At the moment I am using Photo Ninja as well as ASP & Bibble.

[tomsi42]

Most people here grumble about the silence from Corel and the fact the last update is from April. At the other hand, the last update is only six months ago. I am user of Aperture to and are waiting many months for a major new version.

I think many will agree with me that RAW software needs to updated more often than programs like Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. This is because of frequent releases of new cameras. These updates will of course mostly contain support for new camera models and bugfixes. LR is updated about every 3 months; Even ACDSee Pro, which I also use, is updated about every 4 months. RAW support for Aperture is handled directly by the OS, so supporting new cameras on OS-X is not relying on Aperture updates.

Let's give Corel some time to come up with some new and better version of ASP. Other companies such as Adobe (Lr) and Apple (Aperture) have development roadmaps for more than two years. ASP is 10 months old.

We don't need a new and better version of ASP now; we need the current bugs fixed and support for new camera models. More features can wait for a year or two.

[Dutchmm]

Has anybody heard of or better yet tried nama5 Raw processor? https://nama5.com/en/overview.html

Not until now. I'd be interested in any reports. At the moment I am using Photo Ninja as well as ASP & Bibble.

Well, it also installs under Crossover 11.2.1 on Mint Maya (KDE). Its functionality isn't in any way comparable to that of AS, though
Still, if you own CS5 (which I understand runs well under WINE 1.5.10 - and should therefore run trouble free on Crossover 12) perhaps you can export as 16-bit TIFF and then do in CS5 all the things you were used to doing in AS.

I have always been an opponent of making AS into a SuperGun; but NAMA is a pea-shooter in comparison.

[Blrfl]

We don't need a new and better version of ASP now; we need the current bugs fixed and support for new camera models. More features can wait for a year or two.

+1. Camera support should really be treated like plug-ins so it can be rolled out on a shorter cycle than the main product.

--Mark

[Tuvok]

You're right you got a point. RAW updates must me released more frequently.

[ormdig]

Appreciate the answers on nama5. I just don't want to waste any more time on trial versions of different raw editors. My cameras, present and future are supported by ASP so I'm not in the same boat as most of you. My only real gripes with ASP are the highlight recovery is still not very good and the color correction tool doesn't work. I can recover highlights and shadow in Photo ninja to an amazing degree and color rendered in Capture NX2 is usually spot on ( it should be as I use Nikons ) but what I appreciate about ASP/Bibble is I can work on an image that doesn't possess those problems ( and if I shoot correctly in the first place they don't occur often anyway ) ALL within one editor and end up with a totally satisfactory result almost 100% of the time. Channel mixer is a fair work around for me when I want to emphasize/ deemphasize a certain color, it just takes some time learning how to use for different functions. I find it a great B/W tool, making possible some very striking B/W images. Every other editor I have tried either can't compare with the finished product or has so convoluted an interface that it is frustrating to use. In most of them you have to move the image in and out of different development modules or save and render tiff files to move to a completely different program to do further work. ASP/Bibble to me has a wonderful interface where I just select any adjustment or plugin without moving anything. It's incredibly fast to use compared to every thing I have tried, Capture One, ACDsee pro. RawTherapee etc. etc. Also being able to make as many version of a file as I want right there where I am working without moving to another section to copy an image and then moving it back into where I can work on it is a vastly underrated asset. Corel has an absolute gem of a program in their hands. Lets hope they don't waste it. Pete.

[Tuvok]

I agree. Also professional photographers as Derrick Story spook well about ASP. http://thedigitalstory.com/mt/mt-search ... 2&limit=20
Corel does have a great tool in its arsenal. If they do not want customers to quit, they have to post some information about a future version and what they are doing.

They do not understand that every customer spend hundreds of hours in managing photos in ASP, and they do not want to lose all the work due to migration to other products.

Please Corel, say something.

[KeithR]

Not until now. I'd be interested in any reports. At the moment I am using Photo Ninja as well as ASP & Bibble.

Been using it for a while.

It's OK as a lightweight, cheap, "travelling" converter, but it has very poor highlight recovery (which is a biggy for me) and no control that I can find over the automatically-applied sharpening on conversion.

It's no Photo Ninja, but I've used worse...

[dFlyer]

The linux beta version AfterShot Pro 1.1.0.28 which is being offered in the first link for beta testing. So lets all start beta testing to make this the best ever version.

[roland65]

For Linux users who would like to switch to Lightroom :
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/digi ... ell-3.html
Tell me if you succeeded,
RB

[2Ben]

Thanks, I'll try this on Linux this weekend. I have Lr 4.2 so no big hopes yet, but it look promising anyway.

By the way, hope you Linux/Mac guys enjoyed the 24h free Crossover earlier this week ! These guys are my heroes !

[roland65]

Guess what? I've managed to run Lightroom 4.2 with wine 1.5.17.
Everything seems to work well, except the books module. And it's responsive.
I'll post the whole procedure ASAP...
RB

[pgman]

Guess what? I've managed to run Lightroom 4.2 with wine 1.5.17. Everything seems to work well, except the books module. And it's responsive. I'll post the whole procedure ASAP...

Please do. I'm very interested.

And I'll trade you with: How to make LR work inside a virtual box AND the catalog on a network drive so it can be used inside the virtual and on the Linux side.

Thanks

[Blrfl]

...How to make LR work inside a virtual box AND the catalog on a network drive...

You may find that less than ideal. I did a study a couple of years ago while looking at using a VM to get at a piece of hardware that transfers bulk data across an Ethernet interface and found that network throughput on VirtualBox and VMWare is pretty dismal. Xen was the only thing that could get anywhere near the practical maximum interface rate.

--Mark

[KeithR]

You may find that less than ideal.

It's obviously ideal enough for pgman when compared to using ASP natively...