+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

Feature requests for ACR

-     the ability to save split toning settings in the same tab. ACR Split Toning is wonderful for sepia in comparison with PS (much more control/finetuning).

-     I was wondering if it would be possible to extend highlight recovery at a certain stage and apply it only to the already visible red blown out areas, without also adjusting other areas that are ok by then.

-     Spot removal tool: once you've corrected one spot and you want to move on to a larger spot as a PS user you tend to use the brackets [ ] to enlarge, only to find out that the area of the latest spot you just removed is enlarged.

Feature request ACR in combination with Bridge

-     Snapshots visibility in Bridge like the visibility of crops. I use snapshots to save color settings before moving on to B&W or split toning. Being able to  see in Bridge if an image has snapshots would be great.

Furthermore I was wondering whether the ACR/Lightroom/PS developers are paying attention to the interesting ZERO noise developments over there on the Luminous Landscape Discussion Forum.

And thank you to Jeff Schewe for the truly amazing Real World Camera Raw book.

We would all benefit from the addition of a K readout in the info box of the colour readings. When optimizing an image in ACR I am always watching the RGB numbers to be sure that the opened file will print properly. For average skin tonality in a highlight I can only use the RGB info at the moment with R being in the range of 190 to 205 at most for a good highlight. But skin colours are hard to use in a standardized way because of their large variation.  When I open in Photoshop I have the real advantage of using the "amalgamated" K value info as a better reference for density and can configure a Caucasian highlight to somewhere in the 40-50% range really effectively, irrespective of the actual redness, ( or other colour ), of the person's skin tone. Please add the K info to make it easier for us right off the bat.

Additionally it would be a great improvement to have the same kind of  active displaying histogram, (perhapsreferred to earlier), as we find in our BetterLight software wherein placing the curser on any point in the image shows exactly where it  lies on the horizontal axis of the graph. There is a vertical line which moves across the histogram as the curser moves, always identifying the density value of that spot. This makes it so much easier to assess an image under review for editing.

Cheers and thanks in advance for considering these.

Rob d'Estrube   rob@destrube.com

With the increasing use of netbooks for travelling photographers, it would be nice to have an ACR dialog that could fit in a smaller screen.

I'll second 515's request

When cropping it would be helpful to have

tick marks on the

bounding box.

When in normal mode it shows a half way point.. but when you choose a ratio based crop mode it only has the courners... I shoot weddings and I crop a lot of photos. I would like to see half way markings and 1/3 markings... that would save me time over eyeballing it, hitting the hand tool so it crops/ straigtens it to full size and then going back into the crop tool to try again.

thanks,

Is there any chance to get support for the Fujifilm S200 EXR Camera in the near future?

Hi all~

I have a Canon S-3 IS camera, about 4 years old. It didn't come with Camera Raw as its predecessor did, and the camera in CY 2006 sold for $725-ish w/ add-ons. The camera has made about 70K images, and I'd love to upgrade to a new Canon S-20 IS, but will have to wait a month or so.

I have other bigger and way heavier Canons, but that camera is so perfect! It weighs under a pound and has the equivalent zoom from 28mm to 640mm. It's a prize! The new S-20 zooms from 28mm to about 800mm, and I'm only $400 away from a new one!

Can I download the Camera Raw from Adobe, and install it into the Canon S-3 IS?

Some of the shots here were made with the camera (most of the more informal ones) :

www.bachnickphoto.com/events/presentations/091123LSWBookV2

Thanks,

Alex Bachnick

alex@bachnickphoto.com

Please either

(1) add support for Leaf Aptus .MOS files created with lossless compression

or

(2) update the ACR and Lightroom camera support documentation to state that only the uncompressed files are supported.

This is very confusing to someone first adding a Leaf Aptus back to their existing Lightroom/Photoshop workflow - especially since the Leaf backs default to lossless compression.

Of course, if you'd *rather* have users buy Capture One or Leaf Capture, you should leave it the way it is. :-)

-Brent

P.S. Specifically, I am using a Leaf Aptus-II 6 digital back - but I believe this applies to all Leaf Aptus backs.

Rule of thirds grids for the crop tool.

I am very satisfied with the current Camera Raw features.

I am now able to edit about 8 or 9 out of every 10 images in ACR only. However I would like to see improvements to the panel layouts. To switch from one adjustment panel to another ready to make an adjustment can take up to 5 clicks. Worse yet, some of the buttons to click are on the top left of my 24" Cinema Display, the others are on the right of my Cinema Display.

There are many ways to fix this, my suggestions are only one way of doing it.

1. On the HSL / Grayscale  panel add a button to allow adjustment of the characteristic selected by the tab, such as Saturation, Luminance, etc. (This basically duplicate the button on the upper left of the screen without the submenu.)

2. On the Spot Removal, Red Eye, Adjustment Brush, and Graduated Filter panels add a button to go back to the Basic panel. Or better yet, put buttons the all basic tool palette on each of the adjustment palettes. This would, in many cases, eliminate one additional key stroke.

3. In the Adjustment Brush panel add a keystroke (ala Photoshop): Clicking "X" to switch between Add and Erase brush.

James Udo Ludtke

Any update on the three requests in the post #502?

Would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks,

Michael Ezra