I guess my review was much too brief if I missed the lack of the
synchronize option. However, I have to admit that you're pretty clever
in getting around it and mildly surprised that it worked. Good show!
But having to save the developed raw file as an ORF seems decidedly odd.
Chuck Norcutt
Candace Lemarr wrote:
> OK, I did the ridiculously lengthy download and install of PSE 8.0.
> I was very happy to find that ACR in PSE 8.0 does indeed read the E-30
> files and allow developing.
> I will confirm that there are a few tools missing from ACR, such as
> curves and tone mapping.
> Also sadly missing is the synchronize option. This is rather annoying.
> The work around that I just used is to "select all", and then apply my
> corrections. De-select all by clicking on one image and fine tuning
> each image individually if necessary from there.
> Another annoying feature of ACR in PSE 8.0 is that you only have the
> option of saving the Developed ORF as a .DNG file. So, yet another
> step to utilize another program to convert the .DNG to a JPEG if
> necessary, which it almost always is (for me).
> While I don't particularly enjoy editing in PSE, the "adjust color for
> skin tone" option under "enhance"--->"adjust color" gave some
> surprisingly pleasant results.
> I will post some sample images soon.
>
> Candace
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> I understand now why Elements 8 takes so long to download and install.
> The compressed package is over 1 GB. But I did verify that you can load
> multiple images into ACR at once and process the batch. There are also
> some interesting extensions in the editor using file merge logic and
> some very fancy selection logic. I was impressed. ACR in Elements,
> however, is a bit truncated. Some of the more sophisticated (but lesser
> used) controls in ACR such as curves are not there.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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