Digital BW, The Print

> From: Stephen Kobrin [mailto:kobrins@...]
>
> Are there any early reactions to CS?  Is it worth the upgrade from PS
> 7.1 with Camera Raw?  Any bugs or problems?

Big win for me. The full 16-bit processing (except for some of the special
effect plugins) simplifies my workflow. The new Camera Raw works much better
than the old one on the Canon 10D. The old one needed hacking to get it to
recognize the camera, and the color balance was way off. The new one has
chromatic aberration correction that operates on the Bayer pattern data, as
well as vignetting correction. The only downside to the new Camera Raw
plugin is that it puts EXIF data into a new XMP format, which makes it
invisible to most applications. This is a new XML-based standard invented by
Adobe, which looks like it will be really nice once the rest of the universe
gets on board, but it's a problem for the time being (if you care about EXIF
data).

There are other features that I haven't even tried yet, but those two are
worth the $170. Don't try to run it on an old, underpowered machine, though.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...