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September 22, 2005
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"Features" that you would like to see in future releases of Adobe Camera Raw.

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IanLyons

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P Moloney

Inspiring

Hi anyone in Adobe,

I'm delighted with the progress and improvements in ACR, its come such a long way!

The ONE simple improvement I STILL want to see is a "Shift Click" option (as in photoshop) to paint a straight line with the adjustment brush.

Burning in a window for example!

Peter

Dublin

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Fred_K_

Known Participant

Hi Ian,

1)

In ACR I would like to have the SLIDERS that work like those in PS.... I mean:

Working with the MIDDLE-MOUSE-WHEEL-ACTIVE to make little adjustments easyer.

Scrolling with the mousewheel can be done while looking at the screen (blind). Clicking on a specified place (for the slider) I have to look at an OTHER place than the image I am adjust.

2)

And in the ACR-window a indicator to see that an adjustment is ready. Now for a little adjustment it is hard to see if the process has done its work yes or no (especially when you work on a computer that is not so fast and it takes some time to do the adjusting-process.

regards Fred K

Noel Carboni

Legend

By the way, if it hasn't been noticed, please add an option to prevent writing metadata back to any kind of input file.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/848551?tstart=0

-Noel

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dan3430

Known Participant

Here is a helpful and I believe easy to implement feature request.

Within ACR with the adjustment brush tool I would love to have access to the hand tool simply by clicking and holding my center mouse button (scroll wheel button). Also be able to change zoom on photo by using scroll wheel. It would also be helpful if this didn't interrupt the adjustment brush tool. (the current method of navigating with the scroll wheel and scroll wheel +shift button is clumsy and I believe my suggestion would be much easier to use and navigate with)

Currently to use the hand tool interrupts the adjustbrush tool and then you have find and reselect your pin, which can be hard to find if it no longer in the field of view.

The more I think about this, the more I think it would be a huge time saver for those of us who spend a lot of time in ACR

2nd Feature Request

I don't understand why this is, but ACR hosted by bridge and hosted by photoshop behave differently. Perhaps because bridge is a 32bit application?

ACR hosted by photoshop 64 is much faster at saving files than ACR hosted by bridge. However, ACR in photoshop has a cap on how many photos it can open at once, where at least with ACR hosted by bridge there doesn't seem to be a limit...( I've had 800 5dmkii raw files open with no problems. Also bridge hosted ACR can load up a second batch of raw files while there are files being processed in the queue, but ACR hosted in photoshop can't

For wedding photographers like myself - it would be great to have the speed of the 64bit hosted ACR in photoshop AND have the ability to load up huge batches of files at once, save those files, then load up a second batch of files in ACR and add those onto the end of the queue while the first batch is still being processed.

This can all be done in ACR hosted by bridge, but you seem to lose the speed bennefits of ACR hosted in 64bit photoshop. I'd love to have the bennefits of both at once!

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DonovanKirkwood

Participating Frequently

A VERY loud 2nd to Dan3430's zoom on scroll request:

although I have CS5 and use ACR & PS for all my processing, I still do my

first selection from a shoot (and quick resizes etc.) using FastStone

(freeware - faststone.org) simply becuase they have the basics so

brilliantly implemented - and the most compelling feature keepidng me from

working entirely in Bridge/ACR - the zoom on scroll ability, including to

smaller than full screen (for getting a quick sense of composition and how

the pic looks small), plus their genius side by side comparison tool which

includes this zoom ability. Now I'm not implying that this is in any way a

substitute for PS once you get to processing stage, but for first review and

delete, FastStone wins.

While I'm thinking about features that are better implemented in freeware,

please have a look over GeoSetter (a GUI for ExifTool), and implement the

ability to geosync from GPS gpx files, and more importantly, the ability to

update metadata direct into the original raw file (in my case Canon CR2),

even when applying ACR settings via sidecar files to the .CR2 files. And

don't tell me I should convert CR2 to DNG or buy Lightroom to achieve this.

Hudechrome

Known Participant

The lack of panning while working the entire image using brushes in ACR has been a deal breaker for me. I only use it for minor changes, or changes that do not need to magnify in order to do it correctly. The Brush tool itself is somewhat counter intuitive, with respect to how the brush works in PS. The concept itself is excellent. I would lke to see similar in PS.

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GlennNevill

Participant

I've just upgraded to CS5 and Camera Raw 6.3 and it is great that we now have Lens Corrections in ACR. I've looked for a grid to turn on when doing Manual transform in ACR and can not find one. Since you went to the trouble to include Vertical and Horizontal transforms in the Manual Lens Corrections couldn't a grid like the one in Photoshop CS5 be incorporated in ACR? If it is there, please tell me where to find it.

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GlennNevill

Participant

And I found the answer to my request by Googling. Typing V while in the Lens Correction will toggle the grid on and off.

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bobll7

Participant

An Auto Noise Profiling button in the Detail tab...

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JATinNH

Participant

In ACR's Lens Corrections, rotation is to the nearest 1/10th of a degree. Sometimes for architectural shots I need a little more precision (e.g., vertical lines of a building near the edge of the image). Precision to the nearest 1/20th of a degree would be helpful. Precision to the nearest 1/50th of a degree would cover all of my needs. I note that PS's Lens Correction has a precision to the nearest 1/100th of a degree.

Jim

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klsteven-qW1idA

Participant

First off, it`s great that we have lens correction in ACR. But I find it hard to use it. It would be much easier, if I could just draw one or more lines that tell ACR what I want to be straight. For example the right and left side of a building.

deejjjaaaa

Inspiring

> First off, it`s great that we have lens correction in ACR. But I find it hard to use it. It would be much easier, if I could just draw one or more lines that tell ACR what I want to be straight. For example the right and left side of a building.

Capture One did that (keystone correction) quite nicely UI wise... Adobe should just steal the idea (I mean how it is done interface-wise)

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Eric Glam

Participant

It would make a lot of sense to include a Browns slider in the HSL / Grayscale tab. Browns are very important for adjusting skin tones, along with earth, clay and sand.

Those Browns are very important and should have a slider of their own. I know I can somehow play with the browns using the Reds and Oranges sliders, but it's just not the same.

By the way, looking at the sRGB color gamut, there are a lot of human-visible browns that are not included in sRGB. The Adobe Wide Gamut RGB includes a lot more browns, and the ProPhoto RGB color gamut includes pretty much all of the humanly-visible browns. Current LCD technology has reached a point where high-end LCDs cover the entire AdobeRGB 1998 color gamut, but I sure wish we can somehow progress to LCDs covering the entire Adobe Wide Gamut RGB. It's not perfect, but it covers more than twice the colors visible in sRGB.

Adobe Wide Gamut RGB color space covers 77.6% of the visible colors specified by the Lab color space.
Adobe RGB 1998 color space covers 50.6% of the visible colors specified by the Lab color space.
sRGB covers 35.0% of the visible colors specified by the Lab color space.

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b2martin_a

Participating Frequently

Eric, dosen't the targeted adjustment tool accomplish what you need relative to browns or any color? With the targeted adjustment tool you can select the HSL slider you want to adjust (H, S, or L), select the targeted adjustment tool, place the cursor over the color you want to adjust and with the left mouse button clicked drag up or down and the correct slider or sliders will adjust that parameter for the color you selected. If multiple sliders are required to adjust the parameter for that color then multiple sliders will move in the correct ratio for the color you selected.

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Eric Glam

Participant

TheTargeted Adjustment tool is nice, but as you said - it can affect other colors, like reds, oranges and yellows in some other regions of the photo. I still believe that Browns, which are closely related to skin tones, should receive a discrete adjustment.
This would really help light-up a person's face in a manner that I, the photographer, intended. For example, colorists working on Hollywood films are paid a lot for the purpose of lighting-up faces in a certain manner.
And after taking tens of thousands of photos, with many years of experience with post-production - I can tell you that it's very hard to get a good skin-tone in a photo. I've seen very few still cameras that can do that, and most of them are in the Medium Format league (Hasselblad, Mamiya, etc.).
Just for reference - I'm using a 10bit capable LCD covering 96% of Adobe RGB, with the entire 10bit path connected as it should (Quadro card to DP cable to 10bit capable LCD, Deep Color enabled in GPU settings, PS CS5 set to use OpenGL), so that I can see the best image possible when working on a photo.
So I think I know what I'm talking about.

ldallan

Participant

In ACR 6.x, the cropping options for aspect ratios are limited to:

1:1

2:3

3:4

4:5

5:7

9:16

Custom

I would appreciate having the option 8.5 : 11 added to the above (or 17:22 equivalent aspect ratio), which is a very common paper size, at least in the USA for "Letter Size". Also 8.5 : 14 (Legal size ... ~ 17:28 aspect ratio), and 13:19.

Better would be allowing the equivalent of "Saved Presets", so an end-user could define their preferred aspect ratios for future use, and have them be "Sticky".

Thanks.

Hudechrome

Known Participant

I'll second the "Saved Presets", but first, please make the drop down menu actually available. I cannot access it consistently. So I can't use the crop tool.

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Eigenmeat2

Participating Frequently

I know this had been brought up before, but please support the raw format for the Fuji EXR cams! We will have 4 EXR raw capable camera soon(S200EXR,HS20, F500, and F550)!!

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