My second PlayRaw. Definitely a good way to learn about post-processing. It would be great to get some feedback and tips. This thread piqued my interest because of the subject (I like dogs) and also the fact that most of my photos tend to have a lot of noise, among other problems 
. All of the photos I see on this forum are much cleaner and therefore easier to process than mine 
. My workflow:
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dcraw: It took sheer determination to figure out the WB. Basically, I changed the multipliers until it looked okay. There is still a tint in the image but my system isn’t color-managed anyway. I accidentally opened the RAW file with GIMP and out popped the PhotoFlow plugin. I wasn’t satisfied with the interpolation but found that the WB color spot tool closely matched my choice of multipliers, which helped dispel my uncertainty. -
gmic: I made up stuff as I went, mostly focusing on taming the noise and brightening the image. I ended up doing something completely unexpected, part of the benefits of being a complete novice yet adventurous. Basically, I tried @Iain’s [filter] (New Demosaicing filter) and discovered that I liked the noise pattern that it gave. Since I hadn’t figured out how to manually apply the multipliers prior to demosaicing, I used the IID filter’s result to guide the texture of thedcrawoutput instead.
That is about it, I think. Sounds as though I know a thing or two about photography, image processing, science and programming, etc. But I don’t. I just did a lot of reading, learning from the smart people in this forum and other fine places of the web 
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