RAW images don't look sharp

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daniel1037

First of all, thanks for a great app!

I've noticed one peculiar thing when working with RAW images which is: the images don't quite look as sharp as they should be. They are by no means blurry, but when I compare with me editing photos in e.g. LR or Photoshop, I notice that images imported into Color.io look soft and lack some details/definition as if they were downscaled before being presented on a screen.

5 months ago

monokee

Hi @daniel1037! The in-app preview uses a half-size debayer for performance reasons which probably explains this. When you export the full size source image is used. Debayering at full resolution is a major performance bottleneck which is why I’ve taken this approach so far. I may switch to using the RawSpeed library at some point but it doesn’t support nearly as many cameras so for now this is probably a pretty good trade off 👀

5 months ago

daniel1037

@monokee Thanks for the explanation; this makes sense!

5 months ago

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