You might give "Rawtherapee" a try.
I personally do not use it often (as I find its GUI rather confusing),
nevertheless, it produces really nice output. Compared with my
"normal" workflow it takes me two to three times the usual time
per image, so I only use it when other things fail. Especially, the
highlight-recovery is quite good.
But be warned ... on a 32-bit machine, you should only process one
image at a time ... do not batchprocess, as this will crash the program
soon. There is a hint for some config-tweaks for 32-bit WIndows machines
that are equipped with 4GB ram ... you should follow them.
The programm runs way better on a 64-bit system with more than
4GB ram.
If you want to give it a try: http://rawtherapee.com/downloads
Regards .. Rainer
I personally do not use it often (as I find its GUI rather confusing),
nevertheless, it produces really nice output. Compared with my
"normal" workflow it takes me two to three times the usual time
per image, so I only use it when other things fail. Especially, the
highlight-recovery is quite good.
But be warned ... on a 32-bit machine, you should only process one
image at a time ... do not batchprocess, as this will crash the program
soon. There is a hint for some config-tweaks for 32-bit WIndows machines
that are equipped with 4GB ram ... you should follow them.
The programm runs way better on a 64-bit system with more than
4GB ram.
If you want to give it a try: http://rawtherapee.com/downloads
Regards .. Rainer