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If you constantly switch between the modes you can assign a custom key to the modes These are the 'bread and butter' of the image management. * Combination mode - big rectangle and two smaller ones (shows thumbnail strip) The undo will revert the image back to before the paste. This is especially helpful when you start copying and pasting parameters. Very useful - the usual Ctrl-Z key works for undo. The toolbar contains the following icons:

You should get all the thumbnails appearing SP-DS3 has a menu option: File / Open Folder (Ctrl-F), but personally I prefer just using Windows Explorer and dragging the folder onto the SP-DS3 workspace.

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whatever that means! LOL! I have mine ticked It's always a good idea to keep your PC 'comfortable'!!! There is also the option 'Make operation comfortable by reducing the load.'.

(This is helpful if you use a tablet LCD and are right handed!) While you there you may want the controls on the other side, so select 'Right side of the main window'. * Select 'Select ICC/ICM file' and use the 'Refer' button to pick the profile you created for the monitor (you know, with the Huey or Spyder). hopefully the quick user interface walk through won't be that long in coming!!!īefore we get going we need to setup a couple of things - especially if you have a calibrated monitor (or worse - you have a dual monitor setup ). You can download SP-DS from: (Which is owned by ISL: )

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I'm only dealing with the paid version (which, frankly, is not all that much money and you get a 30 day trial anyway). There are also two versions of Silkypix available - the FREE and the PAID for versions.

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What you end up with are images that are unbelievably sharp, crisp and with as much colour as you could want, and (with a little care) no strange artifacts or odd 'pixel halos' that are apparent on pretty well all the other converters (and that's at all ISO ratings!).įirst off, it's worth saying that the Pentax Lab software that's supplied with the K10D uses the Silkypix engine. But, IMHO, once you've got the hang of it it's going to take some serious changes to the others to match it (in terms of IQ that is!)

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(I very, very nearly paid for the Pro version of C1 but SP-DS3 English Beta got to me before I paid out ) It may feel slower than C1 (especially the Pro version), but taking the overall time to work through a batch of shots I reckon it's about even with C1 - it's just different. SP-DS allows an unbelievable level of colour control, noise reduction, sharpening, plus lens adjustments (like chromatic aberration, distortions, and vignetting) and almost everything else you could imagine in a RAW convertor. Capture One is the next best thing if you're wondering I prefer features in other RAW converters, but I still come back to the IQ every time. I have also tried Bibble and others to test whether my decision is still the right one (you can test it yourself, or take it or leave it). I have used, and own, the following RAW tools: Adobe Camera RAW (in CS2), Pixmantec Premium, Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, and Silkypix. (I'm paid nothing, zippo, nada, for this - so there )Īctually, it's all down to the image quality. Some of the cynics will say that I just promote whatever the flavour of the month happens to be, or what I'm paid to promote

If you have questions, please start a new thread so we can keep things nicely organised I'd like to try and keep it as a fairly clean guide to Silkypix. PLEASE don't go off thread on this topic. It'll have to be in installments because there's just so much of it, and I don't have a great deal of spare time right now due to popular demand here comes my 'rough guide' to Silkypix Developer Studio.