
RawStudio was kind enough to give me a baseline ICC profile for the T3i that I'm using because trying to find an honest-to-FSM Canon profile is more difficult than convincing Congress to take a paycut. I'm constantly having to pull the white point way back and adjust curves to even start worrying about playing with sliders. I seem to have a constant problem no matter which conversion program I use with the raw files appearing much darker on the computer than they do in-camera. I'm hunting tips, because most of the information out there is centered on Lightroom and Photoshop rather than whatever and GIMP. I've tried UFRaw (could never get the exposure just right), RawTherapee (painfully slow and hard on the processor), Darktable (even harder than RawTherapee), and I've finally landed on RawStudio. I have a WinXP partition, but I've been fighting to figure out a decent native workflow. On mine, an old HP that doesn't have any specs worth mentioning and definitely not enough to run a decent VM, the story is different. DPP has advantages in that you can pull a lot more information out of the raw than the standard EXIF data will tell you-such as which AF points were used-and can process JPEG as if they were shot from in-camera to begin with, making for a fairly fast workflow. On a Win/OSX machine, this is relatively simple because all of the major camera models come with their own processing software (in my case, Canon Digital Photo Professional).

Since acquiring a DSLR and putzing around with what I've been able to get out of Debian's library, I'm trying to get used to shooting in raw only.
