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RAW workflow?
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Digital photographers out there – what do you use for your RAW workflow, if you shoot in RAW? I’ve just been using Photoshop CS2 with Adobe’s RAW plugin at the moment, though I’ve downloaded Rawshooter Essentials as well. Any suggestions on good RAW tutorials?
I’m using the RAW plug-in which comes with Photoshop CS2 also. I downloaded the update for the Nikon D200 for it also.
I’m pretty happy with it to date, haven’t seen a reason to change to something else.
That being said I do very little with it.
1) Increase sharpening a little, never more than 50 ifs its required. Sometimes it depends on the lens I’m using
2) Correct any White Balance problem which may exist (depends on whether I’m shooting Manual mode or not)
3) Correct highlights and shadows
4) Increase saturation up by maybe 10-15Might change the contrast.
A trick (not sure if its common knowledge) is to press the ‘Alt’ key while moving the arrow for the highlights/shadows.
It clears the screen only leaving any highlighted or problem shadow areas.If someone comes up with a good reason to try using RawShooter, I’ll certainly give it a shot :)
Mark
After messing about with RawShooter a bit, one thing that I do find a bit handy is that it lets you do batches. No more need to open every file individually in PS, then save and close. You can make individual changes to each file, then save them all as jpeg once you’re done. Very nice.
antifuse wrote:
After messing about with RawShooter a bit, one thing that I do find a bit handy is that it lets you do batches. No more need to open every file individually in PS, then save and close. You can make individual changes to each file, then save them all as jpeg once you’re done. Very nice.
You can also do this with Adobe Bridge in CS2. You can batch process all your RAW files, apply similar changes and save as JPEG/TIFF etc.
I played with RAW shooters a while back and I was impressed, especially as it was free. But I didnt see the point as saving as JPG and then going into PS for further processing, so I just stick to PS CS2 for my RAW work flow.
Ahhh, of course, Adobe Bridge. The Photoshop tool that I never seem to get around to using. I’ll have to give that a look.
I always browse using Adobe Bridge. You can also update keywords etc… using it.
Using Adobe Bridge/CS2 for conversion also, does the job fine.
Not sure why you’d want to save as JPG. I always save as PSD, work from there
and save each iteration of change separately.Ed
Hrmm… can’t seem to figure out batch processing of RAWs in Adobe Bridge… How do you do it?
antifuse wrote:
Hrmm… can’t seem to figure out batch processing of RAWs in Adobe Bridge… How do you do it?
I don’t do it often.. but when I do, here’s how it’s done. Open the first RAW file and make what ever adjustments you need (white balance/exposure etc). Be careful, these settings will be applied globally to all the RAW’s being processed, so don’t do anything too dramatic that would work on that one selected shot but not the others. Then click “Done” rather than “Open”.
Now select all the RAW files you want and go to the Edit->Apply Camera RAW Settings->Previous Conversion
Once that’s done, now we want to dump them out to JPEG.
Go to the Tools->Photoshop->Image Processor menu
From here you can batch process all the RAW files. The RAW settings used previously will be applied to each RAW and inside the Image Processing option, you get choices about files types to be saved as, quallity level, what actions to run (if any) etc. It works very well I find.
Hope this helps
Ahhhh, neato! Although, now I see how it’s a bit differet from Rawshooters. I make different changes to all my pictures, usually, so this workflow won’t really do it for me.
antifuse wrote:
Ahhhh, neato! Although, now I see how it’s a bit differet from Rawshooters. I make different changes to all my pictures, usually, so this workflow won’t really do it for me.
If you make different adjustments eo each one, then how can it be batched?
The conversion from JPG to RAW can be batched, regardless of what RAW adjustments you want. You can make your RAW adjustments individually to each shot and then use the Image Processor to batch the conversion/apply actions etc.
Well, I just like the way that with Rawshooter, I click on the thumbnail and it’s automatically visible to me to make adjustments. No need for a big long wait for Photoshop to open it up. And I can just shift-select all the images and batch convert them, using the settings that I’ve already put into them, bang bickity boom. I just wish Rawshooter had better white balance modification. Oh well, I’m going to check out some of the other tools out there as well, and see if I can find the one that suits me best.
Yeah I take your point about Photoshop having to open up… but once it’s open for the first time, after that the flow is pretty much the same, with the added advantage of being able to apply actions to each shot (i.e. add a frame, sharpen, etc).
And don’t forget.. Adobe are after buying Pixmantec RAW shooter technology, so you may as well get practice with their flow now :wink:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0606/06062602adobebuypixmantec.asp
Hehehe yeah, you’re right. I’m really interested to see what Lightroom is like for Windows. Now, if they’d just get the dang beta out already! :)
Im seriousl considering selling my PC laptop and buying a Mac just to use freaking lightroom. Its insanely good!
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