I don't know if anyone answered Paul Stenquist's question WRT the addition of curves in the ACR converter in CS2, but I just installed the CS2 tryout, and can report that curves have been added (but no individual R,G or B channel adjustments).
Also added are: Blown highlight & clipped shadow indicators, Batch conversions with real time preview, Auto, exposure, shadow, brightness & contrast options, Crop & straighten tools. I've just been mucking around with it for half an hour and those are the only new things I've noticed. HTH Dave On 5/21/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point, Rob. You can effect something similar to anchoring part of > the curve by combining brightness and contrast adjustments but that's > really a workaround. It would be nice to have a curve with anchor > points in the converter. Do you know if this has been addressed in CS2? > On May 21, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: > > > On 21 May 2005 at 9:31, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > >> Once you've become accustomed to the RAW converter, you usually won't > >> have to use curves after conversion. The only tool I use with any > >> frequency after conversion is shadow/highlight. That seems to be able > >> to accomplish some control that can't be achieved in conversion. But > >> anything you can do in curves, you can do in the converter. There are > >> times when I wish I had given a shot a bit more contrast before > >> conversion. I'll then use curves after conversion and tweak the RGB > >> curve. But those situations are rare. > > > > The contrast/brightness tools are controls for a curves tool however > > they only > > effectively provide a single control point along the curve. They are > > generally > > adequate but are ineffective if you need to anchor one section of the > > image > > (for instance shadows to mid-times) and adjust the gamma of another > > section (ie > > the highlights). For some of the copy work I do this would be great as > > any > > curves are best applied before the selected color-space gamma curve is > > imposed > > on the composite RGB file. > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Rob Studdert > > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > > >
