This month's issue of Photoshop User magazine has a fabulous article about the
PSCS Camera Raw converter. It's written by PSCS expert and Real World Camera
Raw author Bruce Fraser along with Jeff Schewe, a top Chicago shooter. Some of
the info goes well beyond Bruce's book. It uses examples actually shot by
Schewe and explains some of the conversion decisions. It explains how the
conversion sliders relate to a 5-point curve and why doing this during
conversion is superior to working the curves in PhotoShop. I also learned that
the Camera Raw converter has an extended highlight recovery logic that can
actually bring back lost highlights. The article also gets into setting up your
defaults, batch processing and much more. A great read.
