Adobe Camera Raw / Capture One
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Now, I just wanted to take a minute to expose you to Capture One and explain why this is a better alternative to raw conversion than Adobe Camera Raw. Now, I don't want to turn this into a tutorial on Capture One, but you should know there are a bunch of third-party raw converters out there that are better than ACR. The main advantage to Capture One is the quality of the conversions. The color accuracy is much better, at least according to my experiments, than ACR or any of the others. Plus it has huge file management capabilities, which is necessary when managing files for conversion. If you deal with large volumes of images, file management in your raw converter is paramount. Now, let's take a look and see what it can do. Now, the file management stuff is located right here under file, hit import images. Another interface loads that loads all of the images that you've put into a directory or it'll take it right off your CF card if you want to do that. You choose the images that you want to bring it and then import all and it loads them automatically on the left side of the interface and once it's done loading, you can go to the top and then just use your down arrow to go from one to the next and when you find one you like, you've already established this output information, you've established your output folder, you've established all your parameters. You want to turn this into a tif file, 16-bit with an Adobe RGB color space, 8,000 pixels per inch. I know, I'm weird. This is what I have it set at. And then you hit control D and it automatically loads the image in the designated folder. Meanwhile, while it's converting, you can continue to scroll down your images and let's say you find another one you like, you just simply hit control D and it loads it automatically. And while it's loading and converting, you can continue to scroll through and choose your images. And let's say I like this one and so on and so on and so on. I've had as many as 25 images in queue, ready to load and convert automatically while I get up and go do something else or see to another function on my computer. Now, we come up here and we get all of the color adjustment panels. I'm not going to go through each one of these individually, but I will show you this one function here that I strongly encourage you to stay away from is take this noise reduction out. This has got to be the worst noise reduction algorithm I've ever seen. But parenthetically and ironically, the sharpening algorithms are some of the best, so the sharpening is good, the noise reduction is terrible in Capture One. But meta data, you get tons of meta data in your image with Capture One that you don't get with ACR and then you can take an adjustment, save it and then apply it to other images. So in a nutshell, there's Capture One. I think it's a much better alternative to raw conversions than ACR.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33889 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-75-5 |
| Release Date: | 2008-07-23 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 127 lessons |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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