Digital BW, The Print

Yes, Yes.  This is basically my workflow, although I use ACR in Lightroom.
AS it improves, or fixes the bugs in mask making and implementation, LR will
give you many of the basic photo retouch that we now do in PS. Leaving PS to
do the more involved swapping of heads, eliminating power poles, etc.

The use of the HSL in ACR/LR is a great way to turn your digital file into
the film choice that we used to make upon the choice of the green box, the
yellow box or the orange box (until it went silver). 

 

I think a little too much is being made about the "non destructive" editing
of RAW vs PS, but I haven't run all the tests yet either. I know that I and
others were making damn good prints before it was there. 

 

The use of the selective color picker tool is really quite nice, even for
those of us that can tell red from magenta, and yellow from green. ; )

 

Eric  

 

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Dallas, TX 75226

214 827-8301

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve F
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:05 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Curves in raw vs. PS

 


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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