+ Camera Raw Feature Requests +

Report · Sep 22, 2005

UPDATE:

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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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Report · Apr 12, 2006

Steven,

You're also overlooking cross-platform compatibility. There's also a Windows version, you know.

Why you insist on using two keys to accomplish what a single one does is beyond me.

Report · Apr 18, 2006

Any chance of adding a functional "Nikon Capture Color Simulator" button just so those of us who have abandoned Capture will feel a bit better with Capture NX coming out?
Stan

Report · Apr 18, 2006

Stan ..

NX and ACR are really two different products--two different approaches. A lot of people, myself included, will probably end up using both. If Adobe had access to Nikon's sensor data, and their proprietary algorithims, I'd suspect they'd have already incorporated them by default into both Lightroom and ACR.

OT: but incidentally NX has been pushed back to July. The last beta I used still tended to crash with intensive i/o operations.

Report · Apr 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

Report · Apr 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.

Report · 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.

Report · 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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Report · May 12, 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

Report · 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-

Report · Jun 03, 2006

The ability to duplicate an image in ACR rather than going back to Bridge.

Report · Jun 03, 2006

Check out the Save button - DNG!

Report · Jun 05, 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.

Report · Jun 05, 2006

Ignore last post...Moving the Color Noise Reduction to zero seems to nullify
the blue spill. Maybe moving the Chromatic Aberration slider nulls is
temporarily?...

Shangara Singh.

Report · Jun 07, 2006

The ability to PLACE as SMART OBJECT directly from Camera Raw interface(!) Option to create a new file to contain the Smart Object.

Report · Jun 13, 2006

... And another vote for Smart Sharpen in Camera Raw.

Report · Jun 13, 2006

... And color coding (cueing?) on the WB and tint sliders (as I've suggested Photoshop-wide).

Report · Jun 19, 2006

Currently we have the ability to apply sharpening to the preview or to both the embedded jpg and the 'raw' file when imported to Photoshop. It would be good to have the option to apply sharpening to both the preview and embedded jpg (when saving as .dng) but not the actual 'raw' data that will be processed in Photoshop. This will allow me to use the workflow as outlined in by Peter Krogh in The DAM Book, using the previews as proofs, and apply sharpening in Photoshop on master files for files to be processed further, without having to manage two versions of the NEF/DNG

Christelle Jansen van Rensburg

Report · Jun 19, 2006

Camera Raw does -NOT- sharpen the raw data, only rendered files -FROM- the raw data or just the preview.

Your actual raw data is never touched, only the metadata settings associated with that file.

Report · Jun 30, 2006

what about CMYK preview (by chanels) and output?

king regards

Report · Jun 30, 2006

Greetings,

One feature I would like to see implemented is a method to extract ALL of the metadata (Exposure tag for instance) during a regular automated OpenDocument. I currently have to simulate a File->Open on each RAW document to get all the xmpdata tags written to the .XMP file. For my automation application I am creating, I therefore have to open all RAW files with PostMessage/SendMessage functions. Not the most efficient way of performing this task.

Would it be possible to have a .DLL created that would include a function to export all RAW XMP data as an interim solution?

Cheers,
Jay

Report · Jul 28, 2006

I would request that the "Reduce colour noise" setting be made to work in a more refined way. Currently it has what I have started to call "the pale lips artifact", because this is how I first noticed it: if you have a picture of a larger group of people, and boost colour noise reduction, the red/pink colour of their lips gets "diluted" by the surrounding skin colour. This obviously happens because some smoothing is applied to the hue data. The same of course happens to all such objects in the image that have pretty few pixels of a given colour surrounded by a larger area of some different colour.

I suggest instead that an additional "threshold" control be included to restrict this effect to the shadows only, because that's where it's needed.

Some of the competing products are better at reducing shadow noise without artifacts. Surely one can get pretty noise-free results by boosting the colour noise reduction, but this accompanying artifact looks bad in many cases.

Apart from shadow noise handling I think ACR is great.

Report · Jul 28, 2006

A lot of people find the denoising in ACR as well as Photoshop inadequate, when compared to stand alone solutions such as Noise Ninja or NoiseWare Pro. Usually, there will be a span of some years before Photoshop 'catches the drift' from such relatively new technology (wavelet denoising), but actually, de-noising is quite a fascinating subject to dwelve on for a programmer. Just set aside a year to do it :-)

Report · Aug 14, 2006

I have to insist on better sync between IPTC Core and IIM.

As of ACR 3.4, Sublocation (IIM 2:92) and Country/Primary location code (IIM 2:100) are not synchronized with Location (Core) and CountryCode (Core) respectively.

This is not wishing whistles and bells, it's what the 1.0 specification of IPTC Core, which supposedly Adobe codeveloped, explicitly asks for.

Report · Aug 26, 2006

I need a way to quickly navigate an image at 100% to inspect for critical sharpness. The hand tool really doesn't cut it, it is too slow and cumbersome to push through an entire image when there are gobs of images that need to be inspected!

I already see there are reasons posted here why scroll bars are objectionable, though I will observe Capture One has managed the trick. But, I much prefer ACR!

In the absence of scroll bars, how about at least implementing the PS standard keyboard shortcuts (Home, End, Page Up/Down plus modifiers)?

Even better would be an interface like the Navigator palette in Photoshop, perhaps placing the red box over the active thumbnail in the filmstrip when the image is zoomed!

Thanks for listening!

Report · Aug 26, 2006

Could the mouse wheel be enabled to increment/decrement numerical values in the entry boxes for exposure, contrast, etc? This already works in most entry boxes within Photoshop, and I fine tune parameters that way all the time. It sure would be nice to have a consistent interface between ACR and Photoshop in this regard.