Best RAW Photo Editor in 2018 Except for Adobe Lightroom

Best RAW Photo Editor 2018

Capture One Pro  

Price: $20/month or $299/license    30-Day Free Trial (Capture One Pro Sony: $79)

Platform: Windows and Mac

Capture one is a high-end rival to Lightroom and delivers high-quality results. Like Lightroom, it can import your images into a centralised, searchable database and then apply non-destructive adjustments and preset effects. Your original images are never directly modified, and the changes are only made permanent when you export processed JPEG or TIFF versions. But there's more to this program than the bare specs suggest, because Capture One Pro's raw conversions are quite superb, often extracting visibly sharper detail, with less noise, than Adobe Camera Raw.

Serif Affinity Photo

Price: $49.99 (Windows) / $38.99 (Mac)     10-Day Free Trial

Platform: Windows and Mac

The best editor for ambitious users on a budget. RAW support is excellent, with support for the latest cameras and elegant controls for enhancing colours and details, although it’s not quite up to Lightroom’s standards. There’s no library management

Best RAW Photo Recovery Software

Jihosoft Photo Recovery can undelete photos, videos and audio files from storage devices, like digital camera memory card, PC local disk, USB flash stick, etc. The image formats it supports include JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and digital camera RAW pictures (such as NEF, ARW, CRW, CR2, etc.). 

Features of Jihosoft Photo Recovery

* Support over 40 kinds of image formats.
* Freely scan the file types that you need to recover.
* Recover photos from disk drive, USB flash stick, camera memory card and external storage card.
* Preview images and information before recovery, including name, size, validity, status, etc.
* Recover media files to PC with good quality.

Download and install Jihosoft Photo Recovery and Jihosoft Photo Recovery for Mac.

How to Restore Lost RAW Pictures?

Step 1. Run Jihosoft Photo Recovery.
Step 2. Click Recover Photo. Or choose Create Image to make a backup for your memory card/device.

Step 3. Select a partition from the list, and then click Advance Scan.

Step 4. Tick photo formats, and then click Scan Now.

Step 5. Preview the images after scan. Some RAW pictures are not allowed for preview before recovery. Please restore them and then view the RAW images on PC.

Step 6. Select the pictures you need and Click Recover.