+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

Uh huh...that book doesn't get a whole lot of traction around here :~)

And since Camera Raw doesn't output to Lab, I personally don't see the usefulness of an Lab readout. That's easily done in Photoshop, which conveniently occurs when you click the open button in Camera Raw.

Yes RGB is precise, but not easily readable by people as in mixes lightness and color information together. Using LAB coordinates one can in very simple way make basic color corrections
Rule 1) Blue sky is (a<0, b<<0)
Rule 2) Plants are mainly (a<0, b>>0)
Rule 3) Skin of "white" people (a>0, b>a)
...
For another explanation see the book http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-LAB-Color-Adventures-Colorspace/dp/0321356780

>RGB color information says almost nothing...

It's giving you an accurate readout of the color in the file based on the RGB working space selected in the workflow...

I agree,
make Color Sampler Tool universally configurable as it is done in the Photoshop application. I use mainly LAB color information as it nicely describes colors in the "human" way and enables me to precisely balance colors even I'm slightly colorblind in red. RGB color information says almost nothing...

Because with HSL readout is simpler to know what happens when sliders are moved.

Many setting modify directly HSL values, and only indirectly RGB values.

For example, hue-twist (L dependent modification of H and S) when exposure is modified become evident with an HSL readout, while with a RGB readout it is impossible to notice.

Thank you.

Why?

As an aside, if you want to take the time to post a request, you really should spend the time to ask correctly which mean explain why it would be useful to you and what you would use it for.

The odds of _ANY_ feature request getting added goes up about equal to the number of people such request would help.

Please, insert HSL readout near RGB readout.

Thank you.

Mauro

In Bridge you can select several files and open into layers in a single PSD file, so being able to do that with several snapshots of a single image as you suggest would be very, very useful and not just for the HDR example you mention. And if you could dynamically tweak the layer snapshots in ACR and the layers update whilst in PS - wow how good would that be?

I guess the next stage would be opening several files with multiple snapshots into a single file - be very useful for compositing. Being able to select all or some of the snapshots would be key to this and if the layers took the snapshot name as well, even better.

Thanks for explaining that smart object scenario PixelTwister, I hadn't known that snapshot feature myself. And I doubt many others do either.

As an addendum to my immediately-preceding feature request, it would be very useful if it were possible to simultaneously open all independent Smart Object layers (e.g., shadows, midtones, highlights) in Camera Raw and synchronize selected settings.

Ramón, thanks for pointing out Snapshots. I had overlooked them, and they do most, but not all, of what I was looking for.

I experimented with processing multiple settings for a single Raw file in one image in Photoshop (e.g., shadows, midtones, highlights), and it works great. Here's the procedure:

1. Process the Raw file in Camera Raw with as many snapshots as needed.

2. Open one of the shapshots (e.g, shadows) as a Smart Object in Photoshop.

3. Right/control click on the Smart Object layer, in the empty area to the right of the Smart Object icon.

4. Click "New Smart Object via Copy."

5. Double click the new Smart Object layer to open the file in Camera Raw.

6. In Camera Raw, click the Snapshots tab, then the name of another snapshot (e.g., midtones).

7. Click "OK" to open that snapshot along with the previously-opened one in Photoshop.

8. Repeat those steps to include as many more snapshots of the same image as Photoshop can handle (I haven't tested its limits).

9. You can edit any of the layers in Camera Raw, and save a new snapshot associated with that layer, but the new snapshots don't affect the Snapshots for the other layers unless you replace the previous shapshot with the edited one. Also, the new snapshots only are available by clicking the corresponding layer in Photoshop, but don't appear when the Raw file is opened directly.

So, now for a feature request: why can't Camera Raw show the updated snapshots associated with all of the layers, both when Camera Raw is accessed from Photoshop and when the Raw file is opened directly in Camera Raw?