Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

I agree with Tyler. I also do ALL global color and tone adjustments in
ACR before taking the image into PS (as 16 bit).  So besides the basic
panel's "exposure" settings for gross addjustment I use he curves panel
for fine tuning contrast/tone adjustments. (Their affects are addative.)
I use White Balance and HSL to implement functions that I used to do
globally in PS with Curves, on the color channels, Hue/Saturation and
Slective color adjustment layers. Another ACR tool must folks don't
think about is the split tone panel to tweak the colors in highlights
and shadows.

Also look into bringing the image into PS from ACR as a smart object.
This will allow you to go bask and tweet the image in ACR even after
adding local adjustment layers. Adds a lot of flexibility.

BTW, Adobe has announced that they are going to announce CS4 before the
end of Sept. Assuming ACR gets the ability to do local/tageted
adjustments, like was just introduced into their Lightroom2, we will
have even more tools at our disposal.

These are truly exciting time to be a digital photographer (assuming you
embrace the rate of change in tool at our disposal.)

Steve Fredrick
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> I'd do everything global you can in RAW, and use Photoshop for the
> local work, and anything else RAW doesn't offer.
>




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