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Old May 2nd 12, 05:07 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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Default Adobe still forcing upgrades to PS to get new RAW converter

The ACR is a curious beast grafted onto Photoshop that has the same
controls/filters packaged differently than the desktop. If you actually need
to do something with the image you still have to run it through the desktop
anyway. Hence it is a bizarre design paradigm that Adobe continues to split
PS into two parts, the ACR and the desktop rather than opening images in one
unified workspace with all processing controls available.
I still do not understand why Adobe thinks so many adjustments to the raw
image should be made in the converter in what is a one layer maskless
paradigm rather than as multiple layers that can be revisited and tweaked.
If you are a pro shooting multiple images under controlled lighting
LIghtroom or (shudder) Aperture may be a better program than PS. In truth
you can do most of what you do in Lightroom batches in Bridge and the ACR if
you bother to learn how.
Anyway, if you study how converters work you may find you are better off
opening the image in the camera makers own software and then transiting to
the PS desktop. For Nikon NX2 is, although expensive, a better converter
than ARC and has the benefits of NIK point centered image adjustment. The
Canon raw converter is also superior to the ACR but again images have to be
transited to PS for actual use.

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Old May 2nd 12, 06:01 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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Default Adobe still forcing upgrades to PS to get new RAW converter

In article , bmocc
wrote:

The ACR is a curious beast grafted onto Photoshop that has the same
controls/filters packaged differently than the desktop.


it's not grafted on, it's intimately tied to photoshop.

If you actually need
to do something with the image you still have to run it through the desktop
anyway. Hence it is a bizarre design paradigm that Adobe continues to split
PS into two parts, the ACR and the desktop rather than opening images in one
unified workspace with all processing controls available.


in other words, you don't know how to use it.

I still do not understand why Adobe thinks so many adjustments to the raw
image should be made in the converter in what is a one layer maskless
paradigm rather than as multiple layers that can be revisited and tweaked.


the adjustments can be revisited and tweaked.

If you are a pro shooting multiple images under controlled lighting
LIghtroom or (shudder) Aperture may be a better program than PS. In truth
you can do most of what you do in Lightroom batches in Bridge and the ACR if
you bother to learn how.


lightroom is great and it also uses camera raw.

Anyway, if you study how converters work you may find you are better off
opening the image in the camera makers own software and then transiting to
the PS desktop. For Nikon NX2 is, although expensive, a better converter
than ARC and has the benefits of NIK point centered image adjustment. The
Canon raw converter is also superior to the ACR but again images have to be
transited to PS for actual use.


which converter is 'better' is subjective, and nx2 is *awful*. nikon
can't write software to save their life.
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Old May 2nd 12, 10:53 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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Default Adobe still forcing upgrades to PS to get new RAW converter

On Wed, 2 May 2012 12:56:15 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On May 2, 1:01*pm, nospam wrote:
In article , bmocc


Anyway, if you study how converters work you may find you are better off
opening the image in the camera makers own software and then transiting to
the PS desktop. For Nikon NX2 is, although expensive, a better converter
than ARC and has the benefits of NIK point centered image adjustment. The
Canon raw converter is also superior to the ACR but again images have to be
transited to PS for actual use.


which converter is 'better' is subjective, and nx2 is *awful*. nikon
can't write software to save their life.


Of the other converters out there, it's not so much the finished image
they render, it's the horrible interfaces that are the problem. NX2,
SilkyPix, etc. No one wants to use them.


You mean they are different from Adobe?

Regards,

Eric Stevens
 




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