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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-24-2008, 10:08 AM
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Try out episode 7 where he's asked to touch up a MILF-(Mother I'ld Like to Facebook) photo.
I'm beginning to wonder if Donni has any boundaries.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-11-2008, 11:07 PM
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I don't know if Elements has layers and blending modes but, if so, you can select the CA area and copy to a layer set to Color Blend Mode and apply a heavy blur. That should neutralize the chroma.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
02-09-2008, 06:31 AM
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I think CaptureOne had updated its sharpening algorithms to match that of RD's after some comparison shootouts were posted on the web a while back. You might try them for the PC.
I have yet to try out ACR and Lightroom. Can't find a demo that will work in Mac OS 10.3.9. Does anyone know how to get a demo of ACR off Adobe's site? They never list demo versions of older software. I hope I won't have to download an entire 28MB copy of CS1 or CS2 just to try out ACR.
Just a side note about the comparison sample I posted, I reshot the test subject in jpeg and got pretty much the same sharpness as seen in the Raw Developer sample shot.
This goes to show camera manufacturers really do have secret sauce algorithms hardwired within their camera's. Raw converters in general can only do so much not having this information.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
01-28-2008, 08:06 PM
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I second tybeck's suggestion on Raw Developer if on a Mac. I've been demo-ing several Raw converters on a 2004 1.8ghz 20" iMac running OS 10.3.9 and RD is the fastest and most stable.
With Raw Developer's high quality (I'ld say genius level) demosaicing algorithms, I'm convinced you could easily get the best enlargements from 6-10megapixel Raw's going by the kind of extremely sharp haloless edge detail it can squeeze out of them.
The attached image is a 200% view screenshot of a comparison test shot between Pentax Photo Lab and Raw Developer. The fabric is 100 thread count polyester fiber shot at about 2 feet from my K100D with kit lens-f8, 1/640sec, ISO 200. The white pixels aren't noise but sunshine reflecting off the fabric loops.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-18-2007, 08:27 PM
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Got rid of the combed histograms by converting the 16bit PPL processed AdobeRGB tiffs to ProPhotoRGB in Photoshop.
I'm guessing there's some kind of mystery meat processing going on with PPL that leaves final rendered tiffs with dropped data when converted from RAW. Something else is happening to jpegs within the camera's internal processes that isn't included in PPL.
Oh well.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-17-2007, 07:18 PM
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Great that there's a Pentax site to post direct questions like this.
Thought someone here could enlighten me on what Pentax Photo Lab v3.0 is doing to my K100D's RAW PEF's to create such histograms on both 16bit and 8bit tiff processing.
Both a straight save to tiff or edits in PPL render histograms viewed in AdobePS with a large amount of gaps in each of the RGB channels with luminance channel left alone. Even saving straight to tiff in PP Browser renders the same.
Identical shots and exposures using K100D's incamera jpegs have no gaps at all.
What's going on? Is this the limitation of PPL where full access to all of the high bit RAW data isn't taking place or is something else happening under the PPL hood?
Thanks,
Tim
System used: 2004 G5 iMac, OS 10.3.9
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