For a quick look Picassa2 is very much faster than either CS or even
RSE. No waiting -- the image appears instantly and
since Picassa updates its database continuously the browser is always up
to date. It takes minutes for the thumbnails to
appear in the CS browser after a card full of images is added to a
directory and I have quite a fast PC. RSE is nippier but
still slower than Picassa2. And RSE is not as easy to use. I find some
things a little strange and non-intuitive. I'm starting to
use the Photoshop CS RAW plug-in more since I got the updated version --
only days ago.
Don
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Nothing wrong with Picasa or RSE but I don't understand ...
Why you don't simply look at the PEF files using Photoshop CS' File
Browser? File Browser in CS, and Bridge supplied with Photoshop CS2,
allows you to browse, sort, rotate, and set up the RAW conversion
parameters for Camera Raw. You can then have all the files converted
as a batch operation directly to Photoshop CS[2] format for further
processing.
The RAW file originals remain unaltered in any case.
Godfrey
On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:04 AM, Don Williams wrote:
For some time I've used Picassa2 to look at the Ds RAW files before
starting to process with RSE and Photoshop CS. But this morning I
thought "What the hell!" and used it to alter contrast and brightness
and added some fill light in some cases. The results are pretty good.
If it were not that Picassa2 alters the originals I think I might
start using it to do the whole job. In fact, I'm going to copy two
sets of files from a card and see how Picassa2 results compare with
the normal RSE converted output. Of course I'll still have to use CS
for scaling (Genuine Fractals), to add sharpening in some cases and
make the final TIFF.
Don
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