Yup, I'm with you on that. I find Elements6 pretty close. I open it into
Organizer and do full screen reviewing for keepers / discards. Then i do raw
adjustments - exposure, white balance, crop, hilight recovery, fill light,
clarity (lce) and maybe vibrance, sharpen and noise reduction. Elements has to
open the (quick) editor but all the raw changes are in acr and get saved as
sidecar files and you never actually use the editor. Organizer displays the
edited raw files. Last job is any pixel level editing, then exporting as jpg
for web or printing. Elements has full color managemnet control over printing.
You'll perhaps remember that last week I was asking about LR as an Elements
replacement - well I think the cost of LR is ruling it out...
Cheers
Jez
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Couch
Sent: 10/11/2009 19:45:59
Subject: Re: [OM] Who in the world writes this junk? - Raw software rant.
Russ,
Many of the raw converters allow you to adjust WB, histogram expansion,
highlight recovery, exposure compensation, sharpening, ect without
having to deal with a full-on image editor. Some programs even will do
light editing such as dust touch-up and local contrast/color
enhancement. I guess what I am really trying to avoid is firing up a
full blown image editor to do basic raw conversion and global editing.
If one just wants to convert the file just in order to edit it in
typical editing software I am not sure I see much advantage to shooting
raw in the first place. (But maybe I am missing something myself.)
Russ Butler wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing or misunderstanding something here as I only deal with
> raw film scans. But I assume digicam raw files are similar though
> written in camera specific formats. If not, set me straight.
>
> I'd also assume "raw conversion" for a digicam would mean converting the
> format into a general image format, e.g. tiff, so that it could be
> processed in your editor of choice where you could judge and tweak
> histogram expansion, color correction, etc. to your liking (or determine
> a standard set of parameters to be applied by the raw converter program).
>
> If my "assumes" are correct, what could be simpler or cheaper than using
> (ImageMagick) convert or dcraw via the command line or via a "send-to"
> batch file as Moose suggested and provided. (If you need any help
> writing other batch files to do the job, I and not doubt many others
> here would be glad to help.)
>
>
>
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