chingoo Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Do you plan on any RAW support??? :?: :?: :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tylast Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I'd be interested in RAW support too. MuzikFetish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aatwo Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 what is RAW? Deviant Art Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Basically an non-compressed and non-processed camera picture. (From Wikipedia):http://www.photo.net/learn/raw/ No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Moved to General Discussion The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I have an answer but a lot of people won't like it, judging from the "no scanning in Win2K = :evil:" type of comments I've received in the past. RAW support would be a very involved undertaking, even more so than adding support for Photoshop plugins. I could spend 2 years straight implementing codecs for all the different camera's RAW formats. I'd have to buy every camera with a different RAW format, spend lots of time shooting test images, etc. Not exactly fun. However! Windows Vista comes with a built in library for loading images of various types. I think it's called Windows Imaging Codecs or something, I forget. And it has RAW support. For free. And when new cameras come out with different RAW formats they can just install a new RAW codec and voila, Windows can use it. Therefore, if/when Paint.NET supports RAW it will be a Windows Vista-only feature. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tylast Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I think I could live with that! 8) MuzikFetish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13_15_4_14_1_18 Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 You really enphasised that "very".. bold, italics and underline all in one. If you're not into numbers, call me Chris! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Why would adding RAW format be an advantage? It is a digital negative not a working format. You would need to covert it another format to work with it and export it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Neil, it's very useful to be able to import the image from RAW format. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 But most people state that they get better RAW importing (or converting to another format) from the software that comes from the camera company. But don't take my word for it. I am now a proud owner of a Mac and I don't need to worry about all this. It just works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I'm sure it does ... The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Methinks Neil's been watching too many of those Mac commercials. :wink: Whereas I'm a lowly non-Digital-Camera-owner. And I suffer from mood swings. <_< And I'm done now... I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 It does just work. I plug in my camera. It opens up iPhoto. I click import. It imports, if it is a JPEG or a RAW file. With Aperture it is even better when working with RAW files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Neat. This is a forum about Paint.NET though, please stay on topic. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsiegel Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I'm just curious, what if instead of trying to support every RAW out there, support was added for DNG (Adobe's Digital Negative). This seems like it would be of value to many digital photographers. Info about DNG is here: http://www.adobe.com/products/dng On that site you can also download Adobe's DNG converter which converts most RAW file formats into DNG. If it's not too crazy I will look into writing such a plugin. --Brandon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 bsiegel, Well instead of trying to decipher the DNG format we'll just hook in to the new Windows functionality That way it doesn't matter what format the picture is at all as long as Windows has a codec for it. As for the codec stuff with .NET 3.0, that's news to me and I'll have to check that out. Bear in mind that .NET 3.0 requires Windows XP or newer and as such if I were to go that route I would have to drop support for Windows 2000. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsiegel Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 This is true, but at minimum it means waiting for .Net 3.0 - and most likely it means waiting for Vista as well. There is an SDK provided for the DNG format (written in C++). Documentation isn't super, but it looks like it might not be too hard to write such a plugin for PDN. As far as I know, there is no plan to support DNG files out of the box in .NET 3.0 - anyone with some of these files would still need to use a plugin until someone came out with an imaging codec for it. --Brandon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Why even bother with that when WIC / .NET 3.0 is officially supported and fully maintained? Anyway, don't revive old threads like this. The thread is done. Locked The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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