Any free 16-bit photo editors for Windows?

[Arctic amateur]

This a DIGITAL section of the forum, dude. Why don't you just disable the digital section of Photrio. You obviously don't like digital photography, which is fine, so you have no nothing to contribute here and only make silly (putting it politely) remarks that are completely out of place. Stay in the analog/film section.

Dude.

I asked the question on DPUG before APUG and DPUG merged to become Photrio. While I didn't specify it in my original post, I was primarily looking for software to edit scanned film.

 

[Down Under]

"This a DIGITAL section of the forum, dude. Why don't you just disable the digital section of Photrio. You obviously don't like digital photography, which is fine, so you have no nothing to contribute here and only make silly (putting it politely) remarks that are completely out of place. Stay in the analog/film section."

Says the schoolyard bully, play my way or leave the playground!

Sirius Glass is a long-standing and greatly valued member of this site. When you have contributed one-tenth of what he has, then maybe you can consider yapping offhand comments.

If this is the like of what we can expect from digital Photrio, many of us may well stay away, DUDE! (Let us be grateful for small favors, at least he didn't call us "peeps"...)

Anyway, to contribute to this thread, many of the students in a photography class I occasionally teach (for a community leisure center) tell me they use Faststone, which is also free and apparently has many advantages including almost lightning-speed conversion from RAW to other formats, plus many editing features.

I regularly review their work and find their post production images are excellent. You may care to explore it as an option. I believe it works in 16-bit.

http://www.faststone.org/

 

[MattKing]

I don't think FastStone works with 16 bit Tiffs. Otherwise, I find it excellent.

And as for Sirius' comment, and the corresponding response, some of us might forget from time to time that some purely digital threads have been brought in from DPUG as part of the Photrio amalgamation. It was probably enough though just to point that out.

 

[Down Under]

Thanks, Matt. I stand corrected on the 16-bit point. I last use Faststone some years ago but most of my students love it and almost all use it. The images they produce with it are, in a word, outstanding. Some of these kids are whizgood photographers and will go a long way.

I've used RawTherapee and am now playing around with Hasselblad Phocus,which I find eminently satisfying except for the (for me) small annoyance of having to convert RAW files to TIF to work on them.

The OP (see #26) has confirmed he meant film scanning. So the original post is in the wrong section. Never mind. Point is now clear and the thread so far has been interesting.

My point re basic good manners stands. OL schoolyard bullies shouldn't/won't be tolerated. One can criticise or correct without immature barking of play-my-way-or-leave commands.

This said, let's move on.