Doug Kerr
Well-known member
As many of you know, I have for many years assiduously ignored the fact that most (now all) of my cameras can deliver a raw output.
I have recently taken a resolution to try and be a better craftsman in my photographic work, one stage of which is to be more craftsman-like in my postprocessing work.
And a collateral issue in some cases may be to work with the camera's raw output rather than its JPEG output.
So far most of my editing has been with Picture Publisher 10, which has a wonderful user interface but whose processing engines are certainly not up to today's norms (the program is vintage 2001, which I like to think was "just yesterday" but of course isn't).
So I will probably begin to do more of my work in Photoshop (yes, I know you have heard that before). I currently have Photoshop 12 ("CS5") and I am not at the moment considering an upgrade to "CS6" (although that is not out of the question).
Of course the most modern version of Adobe Camera Raw that will go into PS CS5 is version 6.7. And it does not care to deal with files from, for example. my Canon G16, much less the soon-to-arrive G3 X.
Of course one route is to use the Adobe DNG converter (the latest versions of which will deal gladly with either of those cameras) to convert the .CR2 files to .DNG files, which ACR 6.7.x is glad to deal with. But I do not know if there is any disadvantage to this route (other than the inconvenience, of course).
Then of course there is the possibility of doing the raw development with Canon Digital Photo Professional (Irritatingly enough, it looks as if I will need to have two versions up to deal with the G16 and G3 X, but I'm not quite sure of that yet.) But somehow I don't have the feeling that DPP is really a good image-refinement tool.
I have been intrigued by the free RawTherapee, and have recently installed the latest version (sort of in beta status, as a matter of fact). It seems to have a lot of tools, and it doesn't seem to be obsessed with the particular camera that generated the file. It is a "nondestructive editing" application, using .PP3 "sidecar" files to carry the recipe used to refine the image to the user's liking, and apply it when we want to blow a JPEG (or maybe even TIFF) file of our work for distribution.
Now, my friends, what do I really need to know here?
Thanks for any help you can give me as I plan to "turn a corner" in my work.
Best regards,
Doug
I have recently taken a resolution to try and be a better craftsman in my photographic work, one stage of which is to be more craftsman-like in my postprocessing work.
And a collateral issue in some cases may be to work with the camera's raw output rather than its JPEG output.
So far most of my editing has been with Picture Publisher 10, which has a wonderful user interface but whose processing engines are certainly not up to today's norms (the program is vintage 2001, which I like to think was "just yesterday" but of course isn't).
So I will probably begin to do more of my work in Photoshop (yes, I know you have heard that before). I currently have Photoshop 12 ("CS5") and I am not at the moment considering an upgrade to "CS6" (although that is not out of the question).
Of course the most modern version of Adobe Camera Raw that will go into PS CS5 is version 6.7. And it does not care to deal with files from, for example. my Canon G16, much less the soon-to-arrive G3 X.
Of course one route is to use the Adobe DNG converter (the latest versions of which will deal gladly with either of those cameras) to convert the .CR2 files to .DNG files, which ACR 6.7.x is glad to deal with. But I do not know if there is any disadvantage to this route (other than the inconvenience, of course).
Then of course there is the possibility of doing the raw development with Canon Digital Photo Professional (Irritatingly enough, it looks as if I will need to have two versions up to deal with the G16 and G3 X, but I'm not quite sure of that yet.) But somehow I don't have the feeling that DPP is really a good image-refinement tool.
I have been intrigued by the free RawTherapee, and have recently installed the latest version (sort of in beta status, as a matter of fact). It seems to have a lot of tools, and it doesn't seem to be obsessed with the particular camera that generated the file. It is a "nondestructive editing" application, using .PP3 "sidecar" files to carry the recipe used to refine the image to the user's liking, and apply it when we want to blow a JPEG (or maybe even TIFF) file of our work for distribution.
Now, my friends, what do I really need to know here?
Thanks for any help you can give me as I plan to "turn a corner" in my work.
Best regards,
Doug