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Re: [OM] Adventures in raw processing WAS: Who in the world, writes this

Subject: Re: [OM] Adventures in raw processing WAS: Who in the world, writes this junk?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:27:44 -0500
Your edited image of the shop looks a fair bit like the PSE 8.0 default 
conversion.  Your rework of the flower has a different (warmer) color 
temperature than the default PSE conversion.

Chuck Norcutt


Russ Butler wrote:
> Russ Butler wrote:
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> I'll add that I tried the first one.  CS3 can't convert it because it's 
>>> too early for the E-620 but PSE 8.0 can.  The PSE 8.0 conversion looks 
>>> very close to the camera's JPEG.  The only thing that struck me right 
>>> off is that the purple paint in the upper right hand corner is a bit 
>>> darker and slightly more saturated in the PSE conversion.  I guess I 
>>> should compare some Canon CR2 files between CS3 and PSE 8.0 since 
>>> someone (I think it was Candace) complained of a difference between CS3 
>>> and PSE 8's conversions... but I'm too lazy at the moment.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>> Thanks Chuck (I think :-).
>> I'll download a few pairs.
>>
>>
> 
> OK so now I'm talking to myself :-)
> 
> Anyway, I downloaded a couple and had a look.
> http://fourthirds-user.com/images/177/raw/P3072068.ORF
> &
> http://fourthirds-user.com/images/177/raw/P3072077.ORF
> (picked this for the violet which is often a pita for me.)
> 
> Also got the jpegs which don't impress me.
> http://fourthirds-user.com/images/177/P3072068.JPG
> &
> http://fourthirds-user.com/images/177/P3072077.JPG
> 
> ImageMagick 6.5.4-9 didn't crash but didn't convert the ORF's to 
> anything useful unless you can do something with black. (SORRY I 
> recommended this route a few times in this thread. Could be a newer 
> version would be ok but I didn't bother to check. I think it relies on 
> dcraw.)
> 
> RawTherapee 2.4.1 crashed. Newer version might help this but I don't use 
> it very often.
> 
> Photoline, (http://www.pl32.com/), the editor that I use most often, 
> opened them and converted them to tiffs that look like my raw film scans 
> do after I expand their histograms. I edited them as I would my raw film 
> scans & they look guttenuf to me.
> 
> I just did a bit of mid range contrast & gamma increase, a lot of 
> saturation & light LCE. I used NeatImage for noise reduction and 
> sharpening as I normally would but I doubt that'd show in the web sizes 
> (the flower shot was fairly noisy). I used ImageMagick to convert to 
> jpeg, downsize and sharpen a tad more.
> 
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/tmp/P3072068raw-W.JPG
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/tmp/P3072068edited-W.JPG
> 
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/tmp/P3072077raw-W.JPG
> http://nfs.nfshost.com/tmp/P3072077edited-W.JPG
> 
> 
> Anyway it was an interesting exercise and cleared up the ORF "mystery" 
> for me :-)
> 
> 
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