Rawker 1.3.1 review

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Rawker is a converter program for RAW files produced by digital photo cameras.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 560K
Developer: Rainer Fradrich
Price: $0.00
Updated: 06 Jan 2007
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Rawker is a converter program for RAW files produced by digital photo cameras. It allows you to convert a single RAW file or batch process a folder of RAW files.

Before processing any files you can modify settings that may optimize the appearance of your image(s). These settings can be saved in a file and re-loaded later.

During batch processing Rawker shows the image it is currently working on. Rawker always produces TIFF image files with 16 bits color depth (which is 48 bits per RGB pixel) and embedded sRGB profile.

Rawker is freeware and runs on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. It's written in Objective C using the Cocoa framework and compiled on Mac OS X 10.4.

Rawker uses the great "dcraw" program to actually convert the RAW files. "dcraw" was written (and is actively supported) by Dave Coffin. It's integrated into the
Rawker application bundle, so you don't have to install it yourself. Of course, you can replace the integrated dcraw binary by a newer version from Dave Coffin's website (see link below), if you are sure you know what you're doing. Try this: ctrl-click on the Rawker application icon and choose "show package contents". A new window opens that shows a "Contents" folder. Inside the "Contents" folder you find a sub-folder called "Resources". There you find (among other things that you don't want to know about :-) ) the "dcraw" binary and its source code "dcraw.c.sourcecode". You can find more info about "dcraw" at Dave Coffin's web site.

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