There will be some who not doubt disagree with me but you can always trial it and reach your own conclusion. I have tried the latest SilkyPix and I don't recommend it as its expensive for what it offers relative to its competition and it also has an odd interface that offers less control over the photographic post processing than its competitors. From there as your skill improves you can spend more on Lightroom or Adobe Creative Cloud or look at the many other capable products such as Capture One, DXO Optics, or Gimp/RawTherapee (if you like free software), or the many others you'll find discussed in these and many other forums. It is a good entry level photography program that will provide good support up to an intermediate level. For good photographic manipulation, photographic management and some advanced features its hard to beat Adobe's Photoshop Elements. If on the other hand you wish to explore the capabilities of your camera and photography as a whole then there are levels of software that meet your need. MS Windows will provide you with the basics in terms of tracking your photos and doing minor adjustments. If you are going to use your K3II and shoot JPegs then you really do not need much. The reason being is that its just too clunky and limiting relative to its inexpensive competition. Most people on this forum who have a K5 or K3 or their variants usually will not use PDCU as their photographic management tool or their raw developer. Only shot a few in RAW and as yet not sure what to best do with my efforts.Ĭheers.BenCPentax - I'm going to guess by your question that you are quite new to modern DSLR's. I don't have Lightroom yet and previously just used Picasa.so is Silkypix worth the effort ? Just got a K3ii and was considering using the Silkypix CD included, or should I not bother and use Lightroom ? Most references to 'Silkypix' in Pentax land are really about PDCU, which is a very different thing. There's not many Pentaxians who actually use the real Silkypjx Developer Studio. We have to be careful not to carry on the age-old confusion over what program we're talking about. I know Silkypix is very powerful and it offers some unique styles of image controls not found anywhere else (eg the colour fine tune wheel). Stagnant, some good comparative points there. It automatically displays RAW thumbnails and as such is good even without trying the editing features. Right clicking on an image thumbnail gives great context menu with loads of file operations. It actually has a very nice image organiser and interface. There's a good free version and paid for options too. I also use a standalone image manager (iMatch) which can be used to launch files into any of the other programs.īy the way, one other suggestion to try is Zoner Photo Studio. I do similar but use Sagelight for the initial RAW development. Your workflow from PDCU into Tiff then PhotoShop is ideal for a non-complete solution product (eg Lightroom). Yes thanks microlight, I wasn't sure if PDCU was needed for a pixel shift output or whether the camera just creates a single file. Lightroom will offer features of this sort (not layers, but it has techniques for selective adjustments). It you need to do any detailed or targeted editing (such as selections and layer type work) then you'll need a PhotoShop style editor as well as PDCU. Then again, if you don't want to move everything over to Lightrooms way then you can carry on organising your photos as at present and just use PDCU to edit and generate new JPGs for print and web display. PDCU has a simple browser feature to view files, but it does not do sophisticated organisation or data management like Lightroom. It also offers the essential RAW extraction tool for the HDR function from the camera. It's flexible, but you tend to have to work ITS way.ĭo you have the latest version of Pentax Digital Camera Utility (commonly confused with Silkypix))? This is more of a stand alone RAW converter with editing functions dedicated to the specific camera custom controls. Many people will say it is well worth the effort to learn it thoroughly, but it will need patience and willingness to learn how to utilise it. There are books of over 500 pages on how it all works. Lightroom is an all inclusive data management and image workflow solution. You're really making a major workflow decision.
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