on 17/11/04 2:08 pm, Rob Wilkinson wrote: >> on 17/11/04 11:09 am, Martin Orpen wrote: >> >>> The results from using the Camera RAW plugin look awful to me - no >>> matter >>> what the settings. > Here is some help from Adobe > http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html
Cheers Rob I got some free time this afternoon to look at the differences between the results of Camera Raw and the results from Nikon Capture Editor up close on a 23" display. If I turn off all of CRs sharpening and make sure that I dial in a large amount of Color Noise Reduction then I can get an image that matches the output of NCE for smoothness. But I'm still having difficulty matching the NCE's ability to resolve areas of colour that CR seems to be unable to cope with. I gave the Calibrate settings a quick tweak, but didn't have much success - I'll need to shoot a colour target at some point and compare the numbers. I'm well chuffed with one of the CR functions though. One of my test images was a shot of the military cemetery at Etaples. It has two marble towers that are about 50m apart which did a good job at highlighting chromatic aberration :-( The Camera Raw plug-in was certainly much more useful than the Nikon software in dealing with that. So maybe I'll process all my wide angle stuff through CR and do the rest with NCE. Regards -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists http://www.idea-digital.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
