+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

I'm evaluating a Canon EOS-7D, whose native pixel count is 5184 x 3456 (17.9 MP).

To retain the finest level of detail from a Canon image, I have found that conversion directly to an upsampled resolution yields the best results.

Trouble is, there's only one (slightly) higher pixel count available:  6144 x 4096 (25.2 MP).

Please add some additional, higher pixel count choices for Canon EOS 1.6x sensor .CR2 conversions - ideally up to 2x the original sensor pixel count in each dimension.

Thank you.

-Noel

What are the chances of getting a "Creative Profile" dropdown for the Develop->Calibration section?

Let me describe what I'm seeking: as opposed to the current system, when one is finished adjusting color modifications in the DNG Profiles Editor, instead of writing a new profile which is unique to that camera and its base profile, a "creative profile" is instead written which can then be applied against any base profile.  Theoretically this can already be done by manually creating all of the relevant mappings and applying them to the base profile of choice.  In practice, it's cludgy, and limits distribution of Creative Profiles to those who have the same camera model or to the very few who are actually comfortable with the Profiles Editor.

Technically, this change should be relatively easy - the code already exists, albeit in a number of places, and major changes would only be needed if online sharing of Creative Profiles were to be enabled from within the program, akin to the way Lens Corrections are currently.  That's of course a great goal to set, but need not be included in a first release.

From a marketing perspective, this solves a number of the longstanding complaints about comparisons between ACR and other user-enjoyed RAW engines.  Ship a "Skintone priority" Creative Profile with the release which actively centralizes skin-range colors and desaturates all low-saturated colors, and voila - CaptureOne comparisons are gone and the user can get as inaccurate (but aesthetically pleasing) a rendition as they want.

Even better: per-camera, per-style profiles no longer need to be created with newly released models - simply create a camera profile which brings color to defined per-manufacturer points, and then release creative profiles which map out to each of the OEM styles ("Portrait", "Landscape", "Neutral", etc. in the Canon parlance).  Now customers can have colors just like their manufacturer does it - no more (well, fewer - I love you guys, but you can't control for per-sensor variation), "It doesn't look like it did on the camera!  Why doesn't Adobe care?" complaints.   [Yes, this carries the burden of breaking the current profiles apart  for implementation, but the payoff comes over time with considerably  fewer profiles to make as increasingly more bodies are released.]

And finally, from a creative perspective, users who've calibrated their individual bodies (or not - this is the creative aspect) can apply creative profiles to emulate film stocks, cross-processed rendering, etc., all shared with the community online and exclusively through ACR / LR.  Now you're advertising more (exclusive) features based on customer feedback, more that users can expect when switching to or sticking with the pipeline, further developing the community of users, etc.

All that for what I bet Eric can do in a day or two.

Hell, I have a case of beer which says he can do it in a motivated afternon .

Save ACR output to a subfolder relative to the path of the original image.

A long time ago in the wonderful land of ARC, one were able to hit the up and down buttons on the keyboard to scroll through the list of saved presets. But about a year or so ago it all changed. "-Why?" we been asking ourselves ever since, but for whatever reason I for one sure miss this simple yet powerful feature. So may I please ask you to consider to make my life a just a notch easier by fixing this? I would be forever grateful, thank you.

Best Regards,

Leonard Gren, Photographer

E-mail: info@leogren.com
Web: http://www.LeoGren.com

I posted a feature request at the photoshop request a feature forum

Add Mini Raw, Camera Raw to HDR, and a HDR Adjustment Brush

I posted that feature request before stumbling upon this Camera Raw Feature request forum.  After reading this post entirely I see similarities to my request but not as in-depth or as precise as to what have described.  Take a look at it and see what I wrote.

my top 3 wishlist at the moment:

• ability to store (and more importantly - ability to then display in bridge) multiple different raw processing options for each raw file in a simpler way than by export to renamed .xmp and then reimport if you want anything other than the current processing options. I can't be the only photographer who likes to visualise multiple different processing options for the same raw file.
• ability to do some distorting for e.g. perspective correction beyond the simple rotate available from the crop tool.
• A mild gaussian blur tool as part of the brushes - I know you can get a similar effect using the sharpness plus clarity sliders, but the sharpness effect is too mild and negative clarity introduces colour and tone artefacts - a mostly transparent blur overlay is still the best for improving skin in portraits, and it would be nice to be able to do this without launching photoshop and having to store additional files/layers.

A blur tool built into ACR would be great!

The new process in V6 seems to slow down preview updates, when operating sliders, especially with non-zero luminance. And updates seem to be slower, the more zoomed-out the preview is.

Would it be possible to have another check box to disable preview of PV2010, so as to make slider adjustments smoother and more responsive?

I am currently using ACR 5.6...

I use the adjustment brush feature A LOT. I'll process nearly 25000 raw images this summer, and use the adjustment brush on a decent amount of them.

It would save me tons of time if I had the ability to have favorite settings, or user settings tabs where I could save several preset setups.

For example... I often lighten eye socket shadows. which is an exposure of +.4 and I like brush size 3. I also am often darkening skys... big brush, -1 exposure + clarity. ... I often add my own version of vigneting with the exposure brush... medium brush -.8 exposure.

If I could have a little tabs or buttons on the adjustment brush screen where I could assign several presets it would save me tons of time moving the little sliders back and forth multiple times for each photo. Also, there should be a reset button that moves all the sliders back to 0.

Also, while I'm at it, I've asked for rule of third markings for the crop tool before (as have others). It's a simple and great idea

I spend more then 750 hours a year in ACR... please make my life easier

Sometimes I deal with tiff files in ACR. I will very happy if camera calibration tab reports the name of the ICC profile and not only an "embedded name", even if the image is without ICC profile (probably ACR assign sRGB profile but I have not investigated)

Ciao

Marco