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Ian Lyons
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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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    Mathias_DK_
    Participating Frequently
    June 13, 2006
    ... And another vote for Smart Sharpen in Camera Raw.
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    Mathias_DK_
    Participating Frequently
    June 7, 2006
    The ability to PLACE as SMART OBJECT directly from Camera Raw interface(!) Option to create a new file to contain the Smart Object.
    Ian Lyons
    Community Expert
    Ian LyonsCommunity ExpertAuthor
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2006
    Check out the Save button - DNG!
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    _Shangara_Singh_
    Participating Frequently
    June 5, 2006
    A while back, I took a number of images of the London Eye with my Fuji S2. I
    noticed the spokes of the wheel were rendering not the expected white but
    were picking up shades of blue from the background. Just out of curiosity, I
    processed one of the raws using the Fuji software and got "perfect" spokes.
    As the Fuji software is not very user friendly, to put it mildly, I decided
    to live with the blue spokes, and also the blue twigs and foliage in other
    images.

    Having switched to the D200 recently, I was hoping for cleaner rendering in
    Camera Raw of fine detail against the sky but was sadly disappointed
    (haven't tried the Nikon software because I have heard its not very user
    friendly either).

    However, I have noticed that when I move the CA sliders, provided I do not
    release the pressure, the fine detail is rendered "almost" perfectly. I have
    to zoom in to see the remaining fringes of blue. It's like having a perfect
    floating selection but as soon as you drop it, the edges go all gooey. You
    can see an example here: http://www.shangarasingh.co.uk/acr.htm

    My question is, if its possible to render fine detail sans spillage from the
    background while the sliders are pressed, why not when they aren't pressed?

    BTW, while CA can be minimised, the spillage cannot be got rid of by the use
    of the CA sliders. I have to resort to all kinds of trickery in Photoshop.
    Very time consuming.

    Shangara Singh.
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    _CSingleton_
    Participant
    June 3, 2006
    The ability to duplicate an image in ACR rather than going back to Bridge.
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    _Jeremy_Huet_
    Participant
    May 18, 2006
    I have been using Camera Raw extensively and would greatly appreciate this feature added:

    In Photoshop CS2 (for win) you can use the middle mouse wheel to control fine movement of the sliders (by clicking on a slider and spinning the middle mouse wheel). Why isn't this same type of fine control availible in Camera Raw? Personally I think that it is a big pain to have to go back to typing in numbers or moving your mouse very slowly on high res machines.

    -Jeremy-
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    Mathias_DK_
    Participating Frequently
    May 13, 2006
    In extention to Peters request, I imagine a tool á la Shadow / Higlights directly in the RAW converter, with a choice of masking (I use a luminosity mask always with S/H to avoid Halos). I appreciate its probably different math than the existing tool, but I'm talking about the same effect as Peter. I've mentioned before an option to control 'highlight and shadow contrast' seperately, and more powerfulyl than Curves. Other RAW developers thrive on the same idea, but you could probably do better.

    Mathias
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    Peter DL
    Participant
    May 12, 2006
    I'd be sincerely pleased to have a tool for:

    Highlights protection via contrast masking,

    thus, overcoming the limits of sigmoidal curves to compensate for dyn. range compression.

    Peter

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    Greg Barnett
    Participating Frequently
    May 11, 2006
    Thomas-

    An idea from a recent discussion on DNG in a DAM workflow - Now that many users are embracing DNG and its being supported by DAM vendors, would it be possible to add in a preference for sharpening of the JPEG preview file along the same lines as the current ACR pref for screen preview only sharpening? It would provide the obvious benefit of a sharper preview for applications capable of reading the embedded preview but without having to apply the sharpening to the actual image.

    I realize that if youre skipping ACR and going directly to the converter this wouldnt work but I would imagine that most users who are involved in DAM would be coming from Bridge/ACR in order to access things like metadata templates and key-wording.
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    _nunatak_
    Participating Frequently
    April 19, 2006
    Stan...

    we're really drifting OT here, but the prevelant thinking is that camera makers need to distinguish their products in a manner they could never do with film. if i can get a raw image similar in quality from my canon sureshot S50 as i could from a canon DSLR, would i necessarily upgrade to a canon DSLR? you may have noticed that most point'n shoots no longer offer raw.

    similarly if i could get relatively indistinguishable output from a nikon, canon, konica-minolta, sony, panasonic, etc --why would i buy brand X? cost? camera makers benefit from long term investments and loyalties. the more proprietary their system is, the better chance they have of locking in their customer base.

    for the camera makers, open formats erode their proprietary hold. however, DNG might just evolve into an acceptable compromise if the photographic ecosystem demands uniform tools for a uniform workflow.
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    _Stan_Burman_
    Participant
    April 18, 2006
    Thanks, nunatak. I'm wondering if the new Adobe SDK for DNG might convince Nikon to support DNG. It would be interesting to know why Nikon is so resistant to DNG. Is it money, ego, culture, image quality, or some combination of those? ACR seems to be so much better an approach to a reasonable workflow. And Bruce Fraser says he can duplicate anything Capture will do with ACR. I do not doubt that at all, but it would be nice if there was a version of ACR for us mere mortals. Thus the request for the "Nikon Capture Color Simulator."
    Stan
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