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Qimage Raw Photo Quality
Qimage Studio Raw Photo Benefits
Meet or exceed the color quality and accuracy of other raw tools
Eliminate the extra step of pre-processing raw photos: work with raw photos like any other image format
Most raw photos will be ready to print with no manual adjustments: just drag, drop, and print
Those that do require adjustments are easily fixed in seconds using the innovative exposure refinement tool
Smart/fast routines allow you to view almost any raw photo in less than 4 seconds full screen
Camera ICC profiles available for popular cameras to achieve optimal color accuracy
When working with raw photos, Qimage Studio Edition is able to meet or exceed the quality of other raw developing tools automatically! For the vast majority of photos, you will never need to touch the raw file to make the most of them as you would in many other raw developing tools. No more staring at histograms and exposure warnings trying to get the exposure just right: Qimage does this automatically. Of course, photographic "mistakes" like improper white balance or exposure can be corrected with the simple "Refine Raw Exposure" function in Qimage, but for those shots that are properly balanced, you can work with your raw files as if they were already developed, cutting out the extra step of tweaking and developing. Qimage's real-time raw processing tools give you the ability to work with raw photos just like any other image type such as JPEG or TIFF.
Qimage and ACR 4.5 Fill Light Samples
Use Qimage's no-compromises fill light to brighten shadow areas without reducing contrast or washing out highlights like blue skies:
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Qimage and Lightroom 2.0 Beta samples
Check out some examples below comparing Qimage v2008.219 with Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta. Note that with manual tweaking in Lightroom, you can achieve results similar to the Qimage automatic result. The purpose of this section is to show how Qimage can achieve superior quality without having to manipulate the raw photo. A note about raw workflows: while most raw tools are designed from the standpoint of "show me what I shot and let me tweak it", Qimage is designed to "show me the best you can do with my shot and I'll make minor adjustments when necessary". Invariably, some will still prefer all the manual controls available in other raw tools while others will appreciate what can be done automatically in Qimage. Comparing the two is like comparing manual and automatic transmissions, so we're not trying to "convert" people or prevent people from using full featured raw developing tools. On the contrary: we're simply trying to give people a (workflow) option that has, until now, been difficult to achieve: that of simple, automatic raw photo processing.
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Qimage-default: Raw photo was simply added to the queue and converted to an sRGB JPEG.
LR-default: Raw photo was imported into Lightroom, then exported as sRGB JPEG.
LR-auto: Raw photo was imported into Lightroom, "auto tone" was used, then exported as sRGB JPEG.
Raw photos from a Nikon D300
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