+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

I'm sure this must have been asked but I missed it. I would like to see a way that new camera support could be added incremently when they became available rather than having to wait for a full application update.

Rick

Janet, you can open two raw files at a time without converting them into Photoshop files - but you won't like it!

Open one in ACR hosted by Photoshop, and the other in ACR hosted by Bridge.

I said you wouldn't like it!

>4. A way to compare two or more images in bridge or ACR.
>Huh, you can already do this. Or am I not understanding your request?

Oops. that does sound dopey. I meant at 100%. AFAIK, the only way to compare two images at full size right now, is to take them all the way to Photoshop and have two windows open. I've been messing with aperture, and i don't love it, but one of the very useful tools is the ability to grab two or more images and have them display side by side, either at "Fit to Screen" size, or at 100% (obviously in a window that you can pan).

One of Camera Raw's best features is the Crop Tool. Please keep the cropped view in the Bridge thumbnails. It would be helpful if the Camera Raw Crop Tool had the center marker like the one in CS2. The center marker if really handy for centering the crop as well as rotating the crop around.

Also add more than one custom size. I'm always having to reset it between two or three different dimensions. Almost all of my images are cropped in Camera RAW

Finally, please add a Canon version with accurate Canon colors, WB and all of Canon cameras' settings including parameters, contrast, saturation, sharpness, color matrix and Picture Styles.

Some of us actually set up our cameras to take the picture that we want, as opposed to simply recording properly exposed basic numbers to throw at ACR, C1, or a number of other converters that are not true to Canon camera specs.

I know that this is a major philosophical difference between us but I chose Canon equipment for the quality of the resulting pictures, not just the numbers it outputs. I view the camera as the dog and the RAW converter as the tail.

That said, Camera Raw has improved to the point that I happily use it for 95% of my work. Its tool set is just terrific.

>4. A way to compare two or more images in bridge or ACR.

Huh, you can already do this. Or am I not understanding your request?

A couple of things:

1. Corrections for barrel/pincushion and perspective distortions in ACR.
2. Something similar to Aperture's versioning (ie a way to have multiple xmp files for an image so you can play with different developing without having to dup the file.)
3. Something similar to Aperture's loupe tool (ie a way to quickly check for focus and motion problems on thumbnails, without having to open them at 100% in ACR.)
4. A way to compare two or more images in bridge or ACR.

Sorry if I duplicated anything from earlier in the thread--i did read it, but it's pretty long now.

I am experimenting with 25 megapix output files right from 6.1 megapix NEF files with atonishing sharpness.
I would like to have the possibility of a wider range for demosaicing and larger output files as well.

It would be great to have a tonal range ecualizer (As curves or Levels does), but instead SIMILAR to audio ecualizers.

This is, for Audio Graphic Ecualizers: instead of octaves and controls for left & right stereo channles, have "tonal" controls (255?) and the possibility of moving each channel by itself or all together.

Also: there are Audio "Parametric" ecualizers: one just put a "center" frecuency (in this case would be a "center tone") and then moves the shape and amplitude of a gauss-shaped curve.

This would be a very nice feature for Photoshop as well.... and would let professionals make very precise adjustments!

Hope I could contribute!
Regards
Ruben Silva
r3silva@yahoo.com.ar

Would it be possible to make a new function called "Soften Overexposure"

My experience is that specular highlights that are way overexposed tend to show very ugly de-mosaic and/or sharpen artifacts.

What I propose is a new slider maybe in the sharpen section that would rollback this artifact in the highlights that are burned out, functioning as a combined amount & threshold.

What it would do is basically to key an unsharpned (maybe a little blur'ed version) back onto the image, based on luminance with a pleasing feather.

jfriend00, you are absolutely wrigth. For tuning skin tones it is necessary to see the CMYK values as this is possible within PS CS2. And it is indeed a pain to switch to CS2 in order to get that information and afterwards do the correction in Camera RAW based on that information .

Regards
Michael