

It cannot take a truly crappy JPEG and turn it into a fabulous photograph. Build the rules it invents into a standalone program, and you have JPEG to RAW AI. Enter Artificial Common Sense-train a deep-learning network to recognize what the mangling looked like and undo as much of it as possible. You know it's not supposed to be contoured, it's supposed to be smooth. It is true that you can't get something for nothing, but a JPEG isn't nothing, it's just a badly mangled something. Simply switching the image mode from 8-bit to 16-bit doesn't get you out of that one, because the contouring is baked into the image. Because, eight bits! The dreaded picket-fence histogram. Like, say, punching up a dusky and hazy blue sky and all of a sudden the contouring that wasn't visible in the original high quality JPEG becomes unacceptable banding. That's just fine, until you want to manipulate some photo in a way that pushes it outside of its comfort zone. As in, my camera had a bad hiccup (or I did something dumb-take your pick), reset itself to all its defaults, and I didn't realize I was photographing in JPEG instead of RAW mode.Īlso, I know that some of you prefer to photograph in JPEG mode (I don't judge).

Sometimes it's a really crappy JPEG and what they want to know is whether I can turn it into a semi-decent photograph.Īnother reason is that, umm, "stuff" happens. Sometimes the best file that a client can provide is a JPEG. Remember that two of the pillars that make CteinCo the multinational powerhouse that it is are custom printing and photo restoration. So.why would Ctein, the Guy Who Does Everything in RAW, even care about a program like this? One reason is that sometimes it's not my call. Okay, the class is a lot smaller you can all move in closer so I don't have to shout. No worries, it won't be on the final exam. If you have no interest whatsoever in working with JPEGs, you can skip out on this column and go do something more productive with your time. Hand it a JPEG of your choice and it will generate a RAW file (or 16-bit TIFF, if that is your preference). Marked works with Scrivener, Ulysses, MarsEdit, Highland 2, iThoughtsX, MindNode, and other third-party apps, allowing you to use Markdown and see beautiful previews just about anywhere.The last of my Topaz Labs reviews concerns a nifty little program with the intriguing title of "JPEG to RAW AI." It is, as they say, a one trick pony, and the trick is in the title.

Marked is powerful enough to allow custom processors (shell scripts) before and/or instead of the built in processors, allowing custom Markdown processing and use of non-Markdown text processors.

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GitHub users will appreciate Marked's built in GitHub Flavored Markdown processor, capable of handling fenced code blocks, line break preservation and automatic hyperlinking. MultiMarkdown processing is provided for writers, complete with tables, footnotes, file transcludes, and other MultiMarkdown-specific features. Marked comes with 9 preview styles built in (including GitHub), and you can add unlimited custom styles of your own. Marked provides document navigation and statistics, proofreading tools, multiple export formats, and much more. It updates live every time you save your document in your favorite text editor, comes with writing analysis tools, and is powerfully flexible. Marked 2 is a previewer (*not an editor*) for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and other text markup languages.
