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Ian Lyons
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Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
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September 22, 2005
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+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

  • September 22, 2005
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UPDATE:

We're interested in what changes you would like see in our products. Do you have an idea for a feature that would help your workflow? Is there a small change that could be made to make your life a little easier? Let us know!  Share an Idea, Ask a Question or Report a Problem and get feedback from the Product Development Team and other passionate users on the Photoshop Family product Feedback Site on Photoshop.com.

In future it would helpful if you could use this thread as a means to add

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

Please do NOT create additional new Topics and try not to duplicate requests by other users. Also, be thorough in your description of the feature and why you think Adobe should consider it.

Oh, and if you find it necessary to comment on someone's feature request/suggestion, try not to get into a shouting match. The penalty for doing so is...

b If you're asking that a particular camera is supported in a future release or just taking the opportunity to carp that yours isn't then please do so in another thread!

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    Drewskers
    Participating Frequently
    August 26, 2006
    Could the mouse wheel be enabled to increment/decrement numerical values in the entry boxes for exposure, contrast, etc? This already works in most entry boxes within Photoshop, and I fine tune parameters that way all the time. It sure would be nice to have a consistent interface between ACR and Photoshop in this regard.
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    Drewskers
    Participating Frequently
    August 26, 2006
    I need a way to quickly navigate an image at 100% to inspect for critical sharpness. The hand tool really doesn't cut it, it is too slow and cumbersome to push through an entire image when there are gobs of images that need to be inspected!

    I already see there are reasons posted here why scroll bars are objectionable, though I will observe Capture One has managed the trick. But, I much prefer ACR!

    In the absence of scroll bars, how about at least implementing the PS standard keyboard shortcuts (Home, End, Page Up/Down plus modifiers)?

    Even better would be an interface like the Navigator palette in Photoshop, perhaps placing the red box over the active thumbnail in the filmstrip when the image is zoomed!

    Thanks for listening!
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    _elmimmo_
    Participating Frequently
    August 14, 2006
    I have to insist on better sync between IPTC Core and IIM.

    As of ACR 3.4, Sublocation (IIM 2:92) and Country/Primary location code (IIM 2:100) are not synchronized with Location (Core) and CountryCode (Core) respectively.

    This is not wishing whistles and bells, it's what the 1.0 specification of IPTC Core, which supposedly Adobe codeveloped, explicitly asks for.
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    Mathias_DK_
    Participating Frequently
    July 28, 2006
    A lot of people find the denoising in ACR as well as Photoshop inadequate, when compared to stand alone solutions such as Noise Ninja or NoiseWare Pro. Usually, there will be a span of some years before Photoshop 'catches the drift' from such relatively new technology (wavelet denoising), but actually, de-noising is quite a fascinating subject to dwelve on for a programmer. Just set aside a year to do it :-)
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    _Benedict_Slotte_
    Participant
    July 28, 2006
    I would request that the "Reduce colour noise" setting be made to work in a more refined way. Currently it has what I have started to call "the pale lips artifact", because this is how I first noticed it: if you have a picture of a larger group of people, and boost colour noise reduction, the red/pink colour of their lips gets "diluted" by the surrounding skin colour. This obviously happens because some smoothing is applied to the hue data. The same of course happens to all such objects in the image that have pretty few pixels of a given colour surrounded by a larger area of some different colour.

    I suggest instead that an additional "threshold" control be included to restrict this effect to the shadows only, because that's where it's needed.

    Some of the competing products are better at reducing shadow noise without artifacts. Surely one can get pretty noise-free results by boosting the colour noise reduction, but this accompanying artifact looks bad in many cases.

    Apart from shadow noise handling I think ACR is great.
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    _Jason_DiMichele_
    Participant
    June 30, 2006
    Greetings,

    One feature I would like to see implemented is a method to extract ALL of the metadata (Exposure tag for instance) during a regular automated OpenDocument. I currently have to simulate a File->Open on each RAW document to get all the xmpdata tags written to the .XMP file. For my automation application I am creating, I therefore have to open all RAW files with PostMessage/SendMessage functions. Not the most efficient way of performing this task.

    Would it be possible to have a .DLL created that would include a function to export all RAW XMP data as an interim solution?

    Cheers,
    Jay
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    _suncek_
    Participant
    June 30, 2006
    what about CMYK preview (by chanels) and output?

    king regards
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    _Jeff_Schewe_
    Participating Frequently
    June 19, 2006
    Camera Raw does -NOT- sharpen the raw data, only rendered files -FROM- the raw data or just the preview.

    Your actual raw data is never touched, only the metadata settings associated with that file.
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    _Christelle_Jansen_van_Rensbur
    Participant
    June 19, 2006
    Currently we have the ability to apply sharpening to the preview or to both the embedded jpg and the 'raw' file when imported to Photoshop. It would be good to have the option to apply sharpening to both the preview and embedded jpg (when saving as .dng) but not the actual 'raw' data that will be processed in Photoshop. This will allow me to use the workflow as outlined in by Peter Krogh in The DAM Book, using the previews as proofs, and apply sharpening in Photoshop on master files for files to be processed further, without having to manage two versions of the NEF/DNG

    Christelle Jansen van Rensburg
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    Mathias_DK_
    Participating Frequently
    June 13, 2006
    ... And color coding (cueing?) on the WB and tint sliders (as I've suggested Photoshop-wide).
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