RAW Developer 1.8.6

RAW Developer 1.8.6 which is used by Mac OS X user is a powerful RAW image processing and conversion application. RAW Developer gives photographers complete control over their digital images and provides flexible, fast and easy to use batch processing. All image editing operations are entirely non-destructive and never modify your original RAW images. All image processing operations are performed at 16 bits/channel or higher bit depth for maximum image fidelity.
RAW Developer offers many advanced features to enable you to achieve outstanding image quality from your digital camera.

Major Features:

1. High quality image conversion (demosaicing) algorithms
2. Easy, flexible batch conversion: High quality image interpolation alogorithms give excellent image detail with minimal demosaicing artifacts. All image processing operations are performed at 16 bits per channel or greater. RAW Developer 1.5 features improved demosaic processing with further refinements to already exceptional image detail and reduced color noise along high contrast edges.
   
3. Fully color managed processing pipeline which is completely user configurable enabling accurate, high quality color rendering and advanced support for use of high quality camera specific ICC profiles.
4. Numerous white balance options including dropper cursor tool and 8 user customizable presets
5. CIELab Lightness channel based unsharp mask sharpening
6. Advanced CIELab based noise reduction
7. Flexible tone curve adjustments, including individual color channels and CIELab based curves.
8. High quality image resizing options based on Lanczos scaling
9. Flexible image rotation and orientation, including straighten tool
10. Advanced Sharpening and Noise Reduction Algorithms: RAW Developer offers four advanced sharpening methods, including unsharp mask, difference of gaussian, "hybrid" sharpen and Richardson-Lucy Deconvolution (Mac OS X 10.4 or later only). All are processed in 32 bits/channel floating point CIELab color space to avoid color artifacts. Powerful hot/dead pixel filters and noise reduction algorithms help eliminate noise, especially from images taken with long exposures or high ISO settings.
11. Image File and EXIF Information Window: RAW Developer offers a meta data information window which displays detailed image file and EXIF information.
12. Flexible Monochrome (Black And White) Conversion Options: Flexible black and white conversion options including RGB channel mixer, Lab lightness, luma, desaturate, intensity and custom duotones.
13. Extensive Image Adjustment Options: You're in total control of every step of the conversion process, multiple fully user editable tone curves, customizable color correction matrix, flexible ICC color matching options, exposure compensation, white balance, contrast, saturation and more.
14. ICC Color Management Support through ColorSync: Ability to specify camera or image specific input profiles, working space profiles for image adjustments and final image output profiles. At this time only RGB color spaces are supported.
    
15. Unlimited batch processing: You can continue making image adjustments while other images are converted in the background. Supports, easy drag and drop image conversion with flexible file naming options and support for multiple file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, JPEG2000 and more.
16. What You See Is What You Get: RAW developer allows you to view and make all image adjustments while viewing a full resolution, fully color managed, 16 bit per channel preview.
17. Support for EXIF Meta Data: EXIF meta data is supported when exporting to JPEG or TIFF image formats. Supported fields depend on camera model, but generally include shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, focal length, exposure mode, metering mode, flash information, camera make/model and date digitized.
    

• Support added for Canon 7D, G11 and S90.
• Support added for Nikon D300s.
• Support added for Panasonic DMC-GF1.
• Support added for Sony DSLR-A850, DSLR-A550 and DSLR-A500.
• Support added for Leica M9.
• Improved default camera ICC profile for Nikon D300.
• Improved default camera ICC profile for Canon 50D.
• The JPEG quality slider in batch processing window now properly sets the quality level rather than always exporting at best quality...