+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

Please add scroll bars to the Camera proxy display.

Yes, I know I can enable the pan (hand) tool by pressing the space bar, but scroll bars not only allow you to move the image but the thumb sizes give visual indications of how much of the image is visible.  Every modern plug-in and application provides scroll bars when the image exceeds the display area.

See also: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3379068?tstart=0#3379068

-Noel

Hello,

I've searched for threads on this subject, but could find nothing, so... I've already posted this idea on the RawTherapee forum (so no patent possible ;-) ), but if all RAW softwares could handle this, it would be great.

Having played a little with ACR, I've found that there is something lacking from the multiple images selection management : there is currently no way to apply a relative change to a slider, if the images have different values for this slider.

Say you want to brighten a set of images, all having different Brightness values. The value and slider will not be displayed, and any change to it will set all the images to the same value. Not what you want to do...

Solution:
Upon multiple selections, all the sliders could take the form of Range  sliders symbolizing the min-max range of values found in the files.
You could then either:
- grab the range slider by the middle : all the files would be updated by the relative move done. So the same  brightness "boost" can be applied to several images, without assigning  them the same brightness value. The slider would stop when one extremity  reaches the control's limit, so as to forbid changing the relative  position of each value.
- grab the range slider by one extremity: all the values would be compressed accordingly to their "position" in the range, while the other extremity stays constant.

This could work with all sliders in the GUI...

Say you want to warm the WB of a set of images :

- select the images (WB sliders will change to range sliders taking all the values into account, whatever WB is currently set: Auto, As shot, Custom, etc)

- grab the Blue-Yellow range slider, and move it...

- the WB will change to Custom, with the new values being computed for each image depending on its original value's position in the range slider and the relative change applied.

Now, if you want to set the same value for all images, you just have to grab one end and compress the range slider.

I've not seen anything like this in existing raw softwares, so I hope this is not a dumb idea...

Please add the ability to at least review, if not manipulate, the document profile in the Save dialog.

It would be great to be able to see the profile while saving so as to be able to double-check that the appropriate profile is being embedded (e.g., so that an image destined for the web doesn't end up with ProPhoto RGB).  I know that you can see it on the ACR main dialog, but showing it again in the dialog would be especially good because it wouldn't be a UI element that's normally ignored.

It would even better to be able to choose not to embed the profile (both Save As and Save for Web offer these things in Photoshop proper).

Ability to override the default document profile for conversion output during the Save would be extraordinary.  One could imagine leaving ACR set to convert to ProPhoto by default but override that setting occasionally when saving images that need sRGB, for example.

Finally, it would be icing on the cake, which we would already have and be able to eat too, if the conversion could be accomplished in a way (e.g., perceptual) that didn't result in channel clipping.

Thanks.

-Noel

again, nothing for FUJIFILM FINEPIX S200 EXR

Glad that A580 appeared in ACR 6.3 and sad that there is no one profile for Sony lenses. No one Why?

Complete full version of Adobe Camera Raw installed with Photoshop Elements. Not stripped down version!. Meaning all the tabs you get when you install Camera Raw on Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. Because I see no real reason to use a stripped down version of Adobe Camera Raw, seeing how you can get a complete Raw editor for free, like Raw Therapee, DPP (included with all Canon DSLR's), etc... Including the "full" Camera Raw will not hurt Lightroom or full Photoshop sales, if that is what Adobe is worried about.

It would be helpful if camera RAW was going to be updated for Photoshop CS4. I just bought a Nikon D3100. I noticed that Camera RAW was updated for CS5 to include the Nikon D3100. Can anyone tell me if it will be updated? As a temporary workaround, I installed the DNG converter, and it works great, but it doubles the amount of space needed to store my files, and I don't want to throw away the original RAW files.

Since you can create Snapshots in ACR now, it would be great if they could be displayed as miniatures/virtual copies in the Bridge.

ACR is now extremely powerful. I find some of the editing functions to be actually faster in ACR then they are in Photoshop. I now edit about 9 out of every 10 images only in ACR.

In most image I can do any required sky enhancement, usually a reduction in sky exposure, in ACR using the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter buttons. However, some images require a sky layer mask, which I create in Photoshop. I then use the layer mask to combine two ACR conversions of the same image. The workflow would be much faster, if I could access the Photoshop mask creation tool directly from within ACR.

Specific ACR feature request.

Next to the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter buttons, add another button, which could be called Layer Mask. Clicking this button would provide access to the Photoshop mask creation tools. Once the mask would have been created, it would allow access to the existing controls now provided for the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter buttons.

I am not asking to duplicate the layer mask creation tools in ACR, but use the ones, which exist in Photoshop. This would require to have Photoshop installed. This feature would therefore not work in Elements.

If implementing this would be to complex, I would settle for a feature to easily import gray-scale layer masks to a newly created layer Mask button.This still would be more convenient because the layer mask would be stored with the ACR data.

Udo

Please make ACR a best-quality yet still fast raw converter, and leave all the spot editing nonsense to Photoshop proper.

Not everyone wants ACR to turn into a fully-featured Photoshop replacement!  Some of us like to get a great conversion then edit the pixels in Photoshop proper.

As it is you have people doing overlapping work on both sides.

-Noel