I had not read this before but have to agree with Moose... time to shoot
raw and get rid of FastStone as an editor. Note that the product name
is "FastStone Viewer". Originally that's all it was. FastStone started
as a near clone of BreezeBrowser.
<http://breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/index.htm> BreezeBrowser (as its
name also implies) is strictly a browser or viewer. It does not edit
anything itself but allows passing images to other programs. The
original FastStone did the same but eventually started going further
into red-eye removal, brightness adjustment, etc. and eventually became
a basic editor. That's fine except that bending 8-bit pixel brightness
levels has severe limitations. While FastStone can do raw conversions
you have no control at all during the conversion process. The raw
converter will essentially reproduce (or attempt to) a version of the
same JPEG the camera would have produced. No advantage to shooting raw
in that case.
For what you're trying to do you have discovered the limitations of
shooting JPEG. You said: "I found that I could not easily desaturate
the saturated images, using FastStone, to match the natural saturation."
If you shot raw and did your basic pixel brightness manipulations in the
raw converter you wouldn't have this problem.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/18/2012 12:05 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have added 5 more shots at the bottom. There is a rapid link to the top of
> the bottom section for in case you don't want to scroll manually all the way
> down.
>
> I notice it doesn't work very well with Chrome browser.
>
> http://www.brianswale.com/zuikoholics/2012/macro.htm
>
> Thanks for all your nice comments. Somebody; without going back I'm not
> sure who it was, observed that I ought to remove the RHS flower because it
> is out of focus.
>
> Well, that is deliberate on my part. It is my observation that photographers
> tend to be obsessed with having an image razor sharp all over its width and
> height. That's not necessarily a good thing.
>
> What I've found is that, certainly for images of this kind, potential
> customers
> prefer to see some out-of-focus parts, a kind of differentiation.
> And if you observe some paintings, you will see the same principle applied
> in them as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian Swale
>
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