After several years, I took another look at the latest version of Digital Photo Professional (DPP), Canon's raw converter.
And I'm very impressed.
Among other things, the converter allows you to edit linear raw images that correspond to what the camera's chip captured.
This eliminates the automatic gamma correction that Adobe Camera Raw, for example, performs as a default setting to give the raw images more contrast.
This doesn't have to be a disadvantage, but it can affect the colors and highlights, impairing their differentiation.
Interesting also the possibility to work with the gradation curve in luminance mode, which only affects the brightness but not the colors.
Colors can be edited according to the HSL color mode (hue, saturation, lightness).
Aligning/cropping.
Noise and moire correction with preview image.
Finetuning with curves.
Raw images edited with DPP can be saved and opened as raw files in Adobe Camera Raw, where further editing is possible. This allows both converters to be combined.
Or you can save the images in DPP as 16-bit TIFFs and continue editing in Photoshop.
Any workflow is possible.
It's also pleasing that DPP supports not only EOS raw files, but also those from the Canon PowerShot series. I work with a PowerShot G5 X, which also took the example image in the screenshots.
DPP's performance is excellent on my computer. Preview images update instantly, and the sliders can be fine-tuned using the arrow keys.
I will continue to experiment with DPP, and I would be interested to hear about your experiences with the software.
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