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"SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 is awarded as the best RAW converter for digital images!"
Nowadays consumer digital cameras are very popular because of their ease of use. Unfortunately, consumer digital compact cameras have limited functionality that reduce the quality of the image and therefore produce inferior results.
These shortcomings could be: unnatural jagged edges, unnatural colours, over saturation, over sharpening, pixilation and excessive colour noise from high ISO photos.
In order to achieve better quality images, RAW photography has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years. Many enthusiastic (semi) professional photographers are demanding the best quality from their cherished images. As a consequence, photographing in RAW format bypasses standard factory camera settings and enables you to creatively explore the full potential of your camera.
Digital SLR cameras and high-end compact cameras offer the possibility to use RAW image formats, which is the native data received directly from the sensor. The SLR camera is a Single Lens Reflex camera. For further explanation, open document link located to the left at the beginning of the article entitled, "SLR camera."
Regular Consumer digital compact cameras tend not give the user access to the RAW data, as this is normally processed within the digital camera to produce an image in the more readily accessible format of JPG.
By using RAW images you are not just a “happy snapper” that is satisfied with stock JPG finished pictures, but rather an enthusiast that wishes to process and adjust images on a computer with greater processing power than a regular digital camera. This offers you the benefits of greater image flexibility and creativity, leading towards better results.
JPEG, which is commonly used, compresses data using the sensitivity characteristics of the human eye. Therefore, it compresses image data into a small file size while still maintaining a pleasing image. However, image quality is significantly degraded due to the nature of the compression process.
SILKYPIX is a RAW converter software that lets you solve all these problems and opens a whole new world of digital photography for the enthusiast to explore.
SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 is an all-round RAW converter with feature rich functionalities that produces the best results for your cherished images. With top notch adjustment parameters in an intuitive user interface you can enhance your own pictures with silky smooth results!
SILKYPIX is specifically developed for enthusiastic photographers and professional users. The software offers a professional colour management engine, including ICC profiles along side comprehensive development functions such as white balancing, contrast, sharpness, saturation, lens correction, image perspective and trimming (cropping), outputting and printing. The extended Adobe RGB colourspace is also supported.
10 Advantages of RAW images with SILKYPIX?
- Control white balance
- Increase dynamic range while working with higher bit depth
- Better exposure control
- Tackle noise problems at source
- Improve sharpening at source
- Optimise output file size
- Unlimited image modifications at source
- Greater image flexibility
- Higher quality outputs
- Fast workflow
The program supports over 120 cameras and works under both Windows (including Vista) & Macintosh (including Universal Binary) platforms.
SILKYPIX can read the RAW format from almost all digital SLR cameras on the market, and also works with JPG’s & TIFF’s from any other source.
New Features in Version 3.0 Many new features are included in Developer Studio Version 3:
- Differences in Image Quality: Improved development engine
- Differences in Tone: The nonlinear processing components of output gamma and tone curve levels have changed.
- Differences in Highlight rendering: The new development engine uses high graduation sequencing to aid silky smooth highlight recovery.
- Differences in Parameters: Sub controls, sharpness controls, noise controls, highlight controls and colourspace have changed.
Feel free to download a trial version of SILKYPIX, so you can experience yourself the silky smooth results that SILKYPIX RAW converter offers for your lifetime images.
Competitive advantages of SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0- SILKYPIX provides non-destructive editing of images, so your originals remain untouched and intact for years to come.
- Development parameters can be organised and stored as individual preferences (Tastes) for instant recall and subsequent application to other images.
- Exposure control: Take control of your image’s exposure and correct under or over exposed photos after the event, using the exposure adjustment control. This can help save photos that may previously have been deemed unrecoverable.
- White balance: Since white colours are recorded differently under different light sources, you can take control of your photo’s white balance and say goodbye to irritating colour casts.
- Contrast: Flat or overly harsh images can be uninspiring to the eye. Take control of your image’s contrast after the event by using the contrast adjustment control and its presets to breathe life back into your photos.
- Saturation: Under harsh light, dominant colours can sometimes overshadow passive colours making an image look garish, likewise flat light can make colours look muted. Take control of your image’s saturation levels and subdue colours or make them more vibrant. The choice is yours!
- Lens correction: Unlike some other RAW converters, SILKYPIX provides aberration, shading and distortion correction functions as standard. So there’s no need to buy expensive plug-ins or use a separate application to remove and repair these unwanted visible errors.
- Image rotation and perspective correction: SILKYPIX provides comprehensive image rotation, vertical and horizontal perspective correction functions as standard, no 3rd party add-ins required. Take control and banish those leaning buildings and crooked horizons forever!
- Trimming: SILKYPIX lets you to non-destructively crop and cut your original images anyway you see fit.
- Sharpening: Add precise detail sharpening to your images like you’ve never seen before using state of the art “Pure Detail” algorithms.
- Outputs: Create a JPG for a document or web page, or a TIFF for subsequent creative processing in your favourite image editing software. SILKYPIX gives you full control over images size, compression and bit depth, to tailor your output according to your subsequent media needs.
- Printing: SILKYPIX yields professional high quality printed output with additional facilities for image preview, output sharpening and contact sheets. So there’s no need to use 3rd party printing applications to get professional results.
Supported camera’s.Due to close cooperation with many digital camera manufacturers, SILKYPIX is known in the camera industry for supporting the latest camera’s.
See below for the complete list (which is update weekly)
Canon
EOS-1D
EOS-1D Mark II
EOS-1D Mark II N
EOS-1D MarkIII *8
EOS-1Ds
EOS-1Ds Mark II
EOS-1Ds Mark III
EOS 10D
EOS 20D
EOS 20Da *4
EOS 30D
EOS 40D *8
EOS 5D
EOS D30 *2
EOS D60
EOS Kiss Digital
EOS Digital Rebel
EOS 300D
EOS Kiss Digital N
EOS Digital Rebel XT
EOS 350D
EOS Kiss Digital X
EOS Digital Rebel XTi
EOS 400D
PowerShot S30
PowerShot S45
PowerShot S60 *1
PowerShot S70 *1
PowerShot G2 *1
PowerShot G5 *1
PowerShot G6 *1
PowerShot G9 *1
PowerShot Pro1 *1
EOS Kiss X2
Digital Rebel XSi
450D
EOS Kiss F
Digital Rebel XS
1000D
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Nikon
D1 *1
D1X
D1H
D2H
D2Hs
D2X
D2Xs
D-3
D40
D40X
D50
D60
D70
D70s
D80
D100
D200
D300
D700
CoolPix 5400
CoolPix 8400
CoolPix 8700
CoolPix 8800
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OLYMPUS
E-1
E-3
E-10
E-20
E-300
E-330
E-400
E-410
E-500
E-510
C-5050ZOOM
C-5060 Wide Zoom
C-70Zoom
C-7070 Wide Zoom
C-8080 Wide Zoom
SP350
SP500UZ
SP550UZ
SP560UZ
E-420
E-520
SP570UZ
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EPSON
R-D1 *1
R-D1s *1
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KONICA MINOLTA
DiMAGE A1
DiMAGE A2
DiMAGE A200
DiMAGE 7
DiMAGE 7i
DiMAGE 7Hi
αDIGITAL
DYNAX 7D
Maxxum 7D
αSweet DIGITAL
DYNAX 5D
Maxxum 5D
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Panasonic
DMC-LC1
DMC-LX1
DMC-FZ30 *6
DMC-L1
DMC-LX2
DMC-FZ50 *6
DMC-FZ8
DMC-FZ18
DMC-L10
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Ricoh
GR Digital
GR Digital II
Caplio GX100
GX200
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SONY
DSC-R1 *1
A100
A700
A200
A350
A300
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PENTAX
*ist D
*ist DS
*ist DL
*ist DS2
*ist DL2
K10D
K100D
K100D Super
K110D
K200D
K20D
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Mamiya
ZD
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Leica
Digital Module R *7
M8
D-LUX2
D-LUX3
DIGILUX2
DIGILUX3
V-LUX1
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Kodak
P850 *1
P880 *1
Pro SLR/n *3
Pro SLR/c *3
Pro 14/n *3
Pro 14/nx *3
ProBack *1
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Leaf
Aptus 75 *1
Aptus 75s *1
17/22/54S/65/65S
Valeo 17/22
AFi5
AFi6
AFi7
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FUJIFILM
FinePix S2Pro
FinePix S3Pro
FinePix S5Pro
FinePix S100FS
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SAMSUNG
GX-1S
GX-1L
GX-10
GX-20
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CASIO
EX-F1
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OTHERS
Adobe DNG Format *5
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| *1 | ... | The camera's WB value setting is not used. |
| *2 | ... | The camera's WB value setting is used, and the sun optical is treated in the AWB. |
| *3 | ... | The camera's WB value setting is not used. Furthermore, it doesn't correspond with the RAW Data in the compression mode. |
| *4 | ... | The developed color is somewhat different from the perceived color because this camera has no infrared filter. |
| *5 | ... | There are some limitations to develop the DNG. Please refer to the "DNG Correspondence" section of the manual. |
| *6 | ... | Recording image size is different from the JPEG file created by the camera internal in some mode. |
| *7 | ... | Attached with R8 or R9 only. |
| *8 | ... | In case of sRAW, the part feature is limited. Demosaic sharp is not available. |
SAMPLES
Basic functionalities:
White balance adjustment:
Exposure bias
Gamma: brightness adjustment:
Tone adjustment
Color adjustment:
Fine Color Tuning
Contrast
Histogram: displays brightness distribution
System Requirements
Windows® XP/Vista/2000/ME Pentium Processor:
Apple® Mac® OS X v10.2 (Mac OS X v10.3 or later)
Support Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
Supports Core Duo & Universal Binary
RAM: 512MB
HDD: 100MB
XGA (1024x768)
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Reviews:
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“Results with SILKYPIX are clearly quickly visible…” Online Magazine “Digital Photography, Germany 2007 |
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“The difference between Aperture/Photoshop/Bibble/Lightroom and SILKYPIX is just stunning! The image detail is probably twice as high for SILKYPIX when using the extended range feature of the camera. This software produces a 12 megapixel image that will leave you wondering what the others did wrong….”..MacUpdate December 2006… |
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“Unlike others, SILKYPIX develops RAW files very well. SILKYPIX's smoothness result makes large size usage possible. I don't experience too much software that supports all these latest cameras. I've never had a better result or found any better usage than in the software above”… If you need finest results, SILKYPIX is just for you…” Feb. 22, 2006 - updated March. 15, 2007 by Daisuke Tomiyasu of Comparing all RAW developer software |
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This is the best RAW converter IMHO. Easy to use, full control of everything and superb results. Its color-rendering is absolutely the best of the lot! I have also noted that SILKYPIX is really fast to adapt to new camera models. There are updates very regularly. www.dyxum.com reviews |
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“Pixelmania Award received for best RAW converter…, The quality of the RAW conversion exceeded all our expectations…This program is a real invention…” Pixelmania The Netherlands 2007 |
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“By far best controls, Excellent color reproduction, Excellent user interface, Active development”…Digital Darkroom > Users reviews on SILKYPIX Digital Studio Version 3: |
“There are many controls for affecting color, although I have already said this is the area where SP really shines and usually there is not much alteration needed”…
SP has some unique features. Incredibly, there are over 150 customized key possibilities! That ought to be more than enough even for the most obsessive amongst us”… By Stuard Hemley of Digital Outback Photo, October 2006
“After testing various RAW converters on the market I consider SILKYPIX the best!... Marine Life Photography 2007
“The easiest, most efficient RAW converter on the market…” comparison test PhotoSign 2007
“Impressive fine tuning adjusters, great workflow for real life results…” Digital Camera: RAW converter test 2006
“SILKYPIX is, of my point of considering, much better than other Camera RAW software which I tested. It manages in particular perfectly the parameter settings of the FZ50 camera. In addition offers much more precision adjustments and preset than other programs……”
“It is really very powerful and very pleasant to use. It is a little surprising at the beginning by the number of possibilities and adjustments available, but one quickly takes of it the practice and it is really excellent a software which is delivered with the FZ50…” User feedback 2006.. SILKYPIX OEM bundle Pentax
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