+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

To I an Lyons,
It would be a good feature to support CS3 for a year with new Camera Raw..Until Adobe come up with a decent upgrade.

Dave Burns re DNG yep done that, not great for the production line its an extra step..Again maybe its good for hobby type users.
Is it so hard for Adobe to support CS3 for a year..Gunner move over to Capture One for 5 machines the quality is far better than bridge any way.Thats how we worked 2 years ago.
Thanks anyway for the info Dave.

To John MaClean,
You may enjoy the gimmicks in CS4 but for pure retouching which is what we do, there is nothing.
may be its OK for you basic users...not for the professionals.

Carl, if you don't see the feature upgrades in PS CS4 than you may want to renew your eyeglasses prescription!

Carl,

Your post is very difficult to read. Try breaking your future posts into short paragraphs.

I doubt that post is going to attract many readers. :/

I have been a Adobe Photoshop supporter and fan for many years.
It is a great product and they have a fantastic team.............But Adobe are starting to remind me of Quark and others such....I had a look at CS4 and asked a number of freelance people to have a look, saying to them if you find something in CS4 which is a benefit to what we do I will upgrade.Not one person out of 5 came up with a reason and we all agreed we didnt need the upgrade for a few gimmicks.
All was going well until someone upgraded their camera to 5d Mk11 .The camera Rawe plug in require to open these files cannot be used in CS3...sure there is a work around ..but come on Adobe A$380 to upgrade 6 machine just for the Camera Raw plug in.Can I say either come up with descent upgrades that are worth while or offer the Camera Raw plug in to CS3 users and future support to the software that made Adobe.
I am looking at the Capture One software workflow, I have three copies and they upgrade free.I hope Adobe listen to their customers and work with us all on this.I think most people will agree CS4 is a very poor upgrade.
I would end by thanking Adobe for Photoshop, prior to this fantastic software I was a High End retoucher working on very expensive equipment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars....Come on guys I could give you some ideas for a better upgrade...it will cost you though so I can pay for the upgrades.

These may have been mentioned before but here are my recommendations:

- A "Master" or "Opacity" slider for the gradient and localized brush controls. I think many folks used to using layers in PS are used to creating a mixture of effects that are a little over the top and then using opacity to back the overall effect back to a reasonable level. It would be nice to have this in ACR for the brush and gradient controls so you don't have to go back to tweak each individual control.

- There needs to be a better way to reset the localized brush and gradient controls. I know you can select the plus or minus icons on one of the controls to sort of come close to a reset but that only works if you remember to do it before you begin to use the brush or gradient. Afterwords, only a double-click on each control will reset. (If there is a trick that I am missing, please let me know).

- This recommendation may be a bit controversial since I know that different people like to set their brushes different ways but I am going to express my preference and request for change anyway: I don't like the fact that the localized brush affects the image outside of the outer circle. I think it would be a lot more useful to have the outer circle indicate the limit of the brushes effect and the inner circle either be the point at which the effect is 100% or the mid-point between 0 and 100% effect. The most bothersome to me though is the outer circle behavior. I have to guess how far it will reach when feather is applied or use a trial and error method, which is a pain.

Wouldn't it be great if ACR could read/use the lens data from Canon lenses in the same way that Canon's own Digital Photo professional can to fine tune peripheral illumination - chromatic aberration - distortion at any setting and distance. It would be even better if the feature could be toggled on and off.
Even with Canon's top L series glass I find for utlimate sharpness there is a real benefit from the peripheral illumination - chromatic aberration - distortion corrections. I have a zillion settings for different lenses/settings combinations as ACR presets and it's still not enough, so this would be really useful and clearly the data is there to use.

Hi PE,

Files are always opened via Bridge and *only* Bridge is open at that time.

I guess the fact that they are already full size 220Mb TIFFs (unlike the Canon files) may have something to do with it (when I open Bridge and click on the folder of Hasselblad files to open it, the thumbnails take a while to settle/load) so that when I then click on a file/files to open them in ACR, a lot of memory is already in use.

Whatever the reason, it would be nice to be able to deal with more than one file at a time.

D.

ps. I have never tried opening a bunch of 120Mb Canon TIFFs in ACR to see if it induces the memory error message. Maybe I should! ;-)

>The ability to open several files into a Photoshop Stack (with same options as in File>Scripts>Load files into Stack).

Can you explain why the Bridge script isn't suitable for your needs? You'll need to make a pretty strong case for having the Camera Raw engineers spend the time doing something that's already possible in Bridge.