I've recently downloaded rawshooter essentials and have had mixed results, at 100% with no sharpening etc... some detailed areas of pictures look like they are pixellated or the squares you get in jpeg compressed (they aren't), hard to explain, but there is definately something weird and a lack of detail.
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Also one picture taken with a polarising filter, looks odd, like I have edited it in photoshop even processed with no adjustments bt processed through a different program it looks fine. There is almost a highlight to the trees which wasn't there, and alos a lot of noise in the sky which should not be there (it isn't in a camera processed jpeg or raw through a different program.)
100% crop

Anyone explain either of those?
was the sun behind the trees? Causeing an almost specular spill over the top of them. You can sometimes notice this on biuldings this time of year in the morning. A kind of halo effect sorrounding the edge of object.