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You see I have started using raw photos instead of jpegs. The reason I do this is because I like having the ability to fully manipulate files if I need to. This allows me to be able to recover issues cause by over exposure or under exposure that you can not recover with jpegs.

One issue I have been having is that the open source tools that I use do not read canons raw format correctly. I always have to manually adjust color and exposure each time. This normally takes me 5-10 min a picture to adjust where I want it. To me it seems what is the point of manually using a white balancer and filters if I never have the pictures look the way I have taken them.

So I have found a work flow that keeps the color and exposure. I have found that if I export useing to *.tif useing canons "Digital Photo Professional" after that I open it up in my raw photo editor of my choice. That tool is rawtherapee.

Jpeg generated from Canon's Proprietary software to use as a baseline test:

Rawtherapee *cr2 unchanged conversion: (note the color difference in the from the baseline)

New work flow export to tif then open with rawtherapee: (note the color matches to jpeg created with canons software)