Re: Camera Raw and Photoshop CS
Re: Camera Raw and Photoshop CS
- Subject: Re: Camera Raw and Photoshop CS
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:58:37 -0700
on 3/4/04 10:19 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>
You have left camera space for workingspace by then; there's no going back.
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CameraRAW does not work in conjunction with external camera profiles; use it
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instead of external camera profiles, not with them.
As a sidebar, I've been building some profiles for fun ON TOP of the
conversions with Camera RAW and finding that it's not only doable but in
some cases preferable (for those that just HAVE to build a custom profile).
I convert into ProPhoto (tests showed the resulting profiles built this way
produced the widest gamut input profile which is no surprise). I'm using the
Canon 300D digital rebel.
I compared this to using the Canon File Utility to convert the RAW file. I
was surprised to see that this resulting profile was not as large in gamut
as using ACR in ProPhoto. When I used ACR with Adobe RGB 98 and built a
profile, the resulting profile was so close to building a profile with the
Canon utility I was actually able to mix and match the two and the results
were pretty close (I expected this wouldn't work by a long shot). I'm not
sure why the gamut of a profile built using the Canon utility is the size it
is or how using ACR and building a profile on top of it's conversion into
Adobe RGB is so close.
What was also a pleasant surprise was going back to RAW files I shot in the
past, converting in ACR to ProPhoto (without altering the basic settings)
and assigning my new profile produced slightly better results. The benefit
was mostly tone/contrast with some vivid colors looking a bit cleaner.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net
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