We have enhanced the batch processing engine and made the user interface more flexible to make life easier for frequent users. The new command line tool provides users with all the power they need to automate their use of Rawzor.

New in this release:

• Support for multicore processors. By fully utilizing power of modern processors, Rawzor now works 2x faster on dual-cores and 4x faster on quad-cores.
• Command-line tool to allow power users to automate their regular use of Rawzor.
• Enhanced batch-processing engine and improved user interface allow users more flexibility when specifying which files to compress or extract, and for other common related tasks.
• A more informative progress bar with improved time remaining estimates.

This new version of Rawzor is available for both Windows and Mac OSX.

Enjoy.

Zoner Photo Studio 12 on Windows

Enjoy!

Screenshot of XnViewMP on Mac OSX

Its not exactly stable yet and doesn’t have all the features currently available on good old XnView for  Windows but its getting there fast. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

Rawzor screenshot mac osx

It supports OSX 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard (unfortunately we are only supporting Intel platforms for now, no love for PPC).

SDK for Mac OSX was released few weeks ago and it supports both 32 and 64 bit Intel and PPC platforms. Any OSX application can add support to open Rawzor’s compressed RWZ images using the free SDK.

Try it to find out how much compression you get on your RAW images, without any quality loss.

Its a full featured photo management and editing software.

Zoner Photo Studio 12 on Windows

ZPS 12 is only available in Czech language for now, English and other localized versions coming soon. Thanks to Zoner team, and especially Vojtech Tryhuk, for their effort.

When we released Rawzor SDK for 64 bit Linux and Windows a few months back, we thought it would be easy to release a Mac OSX version too. Well, it wasn’t that easy but here it is now, all ready to roll into your favorite applications on Mac so that they can open your compressed .RWZ files directly.

It has already been integrated in some Mac applications so you will see more announcements coming soon as they release their next versions (thanks to them for helping us beta test this).

With this release we now fully supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Mac and Linux. SDK includes pre-built binaries for each of these platforms, you only need to link with them and make the usual 2 simple functions calls.

PS. This is absolutely no hint that OSX version of Rawzor is coming soon (we know you believe us, right?).

RawTherapee V2.4 on 64-bit Windows 7. Rawzored NEF files loaded in browser and editor.

Thanks to Gabor and rest of the RawTherapee team. They are the first one to support compressed .rwz images on Linux and on 64-bit platforms using our SDKs.

Give it a try, its free.

For a complete list of supported cameras and formats and the compression results for each of them, see www.rawzor.com/formats

The new raw formats now supported by Rawzor are Canon SRAW, Panasonic RW2, Hasselblad 3FR, Nikon NRW and Sony CRAW.

This release of Rawzor adds support for following cameras,

• Canon’s 1000D, 450D, 50D, 5D Mark_II, G10, A460, A530, A650, A720 and SD300.
• Canon’s SRAW format for 40D, 50D, 5D Mark_II and 1D Mark_III
• Contax 645
• Fujifilm’s IS Pro and IS-1
• Hasselblad’s .3fr format
• Kodak’s C603, C603v C603y and EOSDCS1B
• Leaf’s AFi7
• Leica DIGILUX_2, D-LUX_3 and V-LUX_1
• Nikon’s D3X, D60, D700, D90 and P6000
• Olympus’s E-420 and  E-520
• Panasonic’s DMC-FZ18, DMC-FZ30, DMC-FZ50, DMC-FZ8, DMC-L1, DMC-LC1, DMC-LX1, DMC-LX2, DMC-FX150, DMC-FZ28, DMC-G1, DMC-L10 and DMC-LX3 including the new .RW2 format.
• Pentax’s K200D and K20D
• Sinarback_54_FO
• Sony’s A200, A300, A350, A700 and A900 including the new craw and uncompressed ARWs.

For a complete list of supported cameras and formats and the compression results for each of them, see www.rawzor.com/formats. (Latest Rawzor SDK already supports these new formats).

ps, I will be at PMA09 on Tuesday and Wednesday (March 3rd and 4th, 2009), if you plan to be there, drop me a line.

We are no longer ‘windows only’, with this release SDK supports Linux too. Now all your favorite applications on Linux can add native support for Rawzor compressed images.
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And on both Windows and Linux, we are now fully 64-bit compatible. We heard that a lot of you are on 64-bit platforms making full use of added memory and processing power for your heavy duty image editing needs. The SDK includes binaries for both 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux.

Where is Mac support you ask? We anticipate all of you using Mac would be wondering if we plan to support Mac or not. Give us more time, please. It is definitely on our roadmap and we will get it out soon. Thanks for waiting.

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Change Log:

• Minor big fixes.
• Support for a lot more raw formats and cameras.
• Support for Linux.
• Support for 64-bit Windows and Linux.
• Smaller 32-bit Windows DLLs to reduce application’s installed size.
• Simplified directory structure (see included readme for details).
• Mac support coming soon.

Grab it from the developer’s page or tell developers of your favorite photo editors.

(Konvertor on Vista, showing Rawzored raw images in Fuji and Olympus formats)

Thanks to Jean Piquemal.

Oh, and a very happy new year. There are some interesting updates coming very soon (but don’t hold your breath).