The advancement in digital photography has effectively changed and fastened the process of shooting and editing raw photos. You will have noticed that now many photographers are looking for software that is capable of editing raw files without altering or compromising their unique quality.
A raw editor is an advanced piece of software that reduces to the lowest minimal complexity and rendering processes. With everything made easier, you can now work on RAW files using the necessary software.
There are so many considerations that need to be checked before choosing the best software for editing RAW and some of them are the:
- User’s experience level
- Rendering
- Batch processing
- Processing
- Assest management
- Usability
- Interface friendly
Below are the six RAW editing software
The GIMP meaning GNU Image Manipulation Software is created with Layers, masks, curves, brushes, clone stamps, perspective changes, etc. The software provides you access to community of fellow editors that are creating tutorials for easy learning, developing plugins, and also boosting the functionality of the software.
Darktable has same functionality as that of lightroom however, with the addition of new functionality makes it appealing to work with. Unlike the Therapee loading of images is faster, navigating the features is fun, etc.
RawTherapee is a 32-bits open-source photo editing platform, this editor works much better with the help of other editing applications and it has similar features as that of photoshop. Its abilities lie in its impressive colour correction and quick catalog response.
Photopea has a Photoshop clone that can be accessed via your web browser, you might wonder why this software made it to the list of considerations, well as seen in the features it possesses Layers, masking, cloning, healing, levels, curves, etc. One great benefit of this editor is that you are free to hop on, do your work, and hop off at any time without hogging space on your hard drive but you will have to note down that your web might function temporarily.
Shockingly how Kruta has been around for nearly 25years which function as an illustration application, not a photo editor. but was not made known is that it has the ability to edit RAW files. Krita is a powerful tool for digital painting with an array of brushes and filters. Like it was mentioned earlier that Krita can handle a RAW file, it is also good to note that one can perform major editing features like the Highlights, Shadow, Exposure, Color correction, etc.
Last but not least is Adobe Lightroom CC which is available on mobile phones for millions of users, the app was created for android based tablets, or pads to edit high images with its distilled features that are compatible with mobile users. The apps come with a friendly interface easy to navigate using the slides.
