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Hey Regie/Russ..
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:23:36 -0500, Eisboch wrote:
http://www.eisboch.com/Samwalk I see Sam is taking you for a walk. ;-) |
Hey Regie/Russ..
On Dec 3, 8:34*am, wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:13:10 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote: I was thinking about upgrading Capture NX, it looks like for a few dollars more, I get CS4. Just so you know, for a few dollars less (Free), you can get Gimp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP For those of you that regularly use Photoshop, there is GIMPshop that tends to mimic Photoshop's UI. http://thegimpshop.net/ That's cool, thanks. I'm going to take a look! |
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wrote in message t... On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:23:36 -0500, Eisboch wrote: http://www.eisboch.com/Samwalk I see Sam is taking you for a walk. ;-) He's not bashful about displaying his desires. He's also a nut. Eisboch |
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"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message ... RG wrote: "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... Check out the new CS4 tutorial... http://www.msjphotography.com/ Heh. Adobe's been looking over the fence to see what Nik Software has been doing with their U-Point technology in Capture NX as well as their own Viveza product. Being able to do local edits in a raw file is a huge benefit. I've been spoiled by this ability for over a year now in CNX. It's a cool thing and it's good to see Adobe put it in ACR. I started working on the 2008 ebook today. It's beginning to take shape. I've got about a hundred photos to resize and downsample, but I was able to put together a master concept and design in InDesign today. RG I was thinking about upgrading Capture NX, it looks like for a few dollars more, I get CS4. If you are a Nikon shooter and you shoot raw, I consider CNX essential, and the upgrade to CNX2 is worth the cost. There are any number of reasons that I believe CNX is the preferred choice for nef files. Most of them could arguably be achieved in Photoshop, but with more effort. However, the main reason for using CNX for your nef files is the way CNX stores the edits inside the nef file itself. When you perform edits in a nef file, the raw data itself is never altered. Rather, the edits are nothing more than a list of instructions on how to interpret and process the raw data. When you re-save the nef file, all the original data is there, unmolested, as well as all your edit steps, listed in the order they were performed. There are two key points here. First, the original raw data is always available in the nef file. This means that you don't have to archive a separate file to preserve the original raw data. Second, should you ever want to re-visit the file and take another approach to editing the image, you can pick up wherever you were in the process when you last saved the file. This means that you don't have to start from scratch on a re-do. You can go back to any of your original edit steps and alter those steps individually, delete the individual steps entirely, add new steps, or if necessary, delete all the edit steps and indeed start from scratch. You can even save different versions of the edited image inside the same raw file. For file storage and management, it is a godsend. Here's an example of how this works for me. After I got back from my trips this year, I edited all the photos over a period of a few weeks after each trip. I'm getting ready to produce another ebook, similar to the one I did last year. I emailed a bunch of photos to Tom a while back, to get his input as to his favorites as well as any editing suggestions he may have. Well, Tom took the challenge very seriously and had a ton of commentary. Not surprisingly, his eye caught a number of things mine didn't. As a result of his input, I re-visited about 50 photos. All of these required very minor tweaks, and the ability to go straight to the nef file and jump right back into the editing process exactly where I left off was a huge time saver. I was able to effect the tweaks I was looking for, and yet not disturb the essence of the image as I had originally envisioned it. Without this option, I would have been left with two undesirable options. One, go back to the original raw file and start from scratch. This would have not only taken considerably more time, but there's a fair chance that I wouldn't have been able to duplicate the original edits and the resulting image would have been altered by much more than the specific minor adjustments I was after. The second option is even worse, and that would be to open the full-res jpeg file that I saved from the original edit and then perform the tweaks on the jpeg file and re-save it. You certainly know the quality issues of re-saving jpegs. This same ability to re-visit your editing steps can be accomplished in Photoshop, but only if you save the edited file as a ..psd file, and those are huge. And even then, you can only re-visit the Photoshop edits, not the Camera Raw edits. There are times when CNX just won't accomplish a certain task, but it's rare. For those times, I perform all the edits I can in CNX, then save a tif file and open it in Photoshop. I find that I often will need to go back to a file and either re-crop it or re-size it for a certain project I am working on. It's nice to be able to go to the fully edited nef file and perform the re-sizing or re-cropping and then save a fresh jpeg, rather than performing those functions on the original jpeg. All of this only has meaning if you shoot nef files, but if you do, I find it a compelling reason to use CNX as your primary image editor. RG |
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Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message ... Your artsy photos? Strained. Frankly, the best and most interesting photos I've ever seen posted here are the ones Eisboch took of his dog. Well, you just blew the whole idea of thoughtful, skillful and knowledgeable photography as a hobby or vocation. Interestly though, I recently met an old high school classmate who I hadn't seen in years. She's a professional photographer now with all kinds of letters with periods between them, after her name. She's also an animal lover and saw some of the pictures I've taken of Sam Adams. She started complimenting me for my skill, explaining that taking pictures of black objects is very difficult, "as you know" she says. I didn't have a clue. I just put the switch in "automatic" and take the picture. My favorite is still his mugshot, but after that one, these two are next in line in terms of what I think came out the best, but I honestly can't take any credit for them. The camera did all the work. http://www.eisboch.com/samsoccer http://www.eisboch.com/Samwalk Eisboch They are seriously nice photos. ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
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"hk" wrote in message ... They are seriously nice photos. My camera thanks you. I just pushed the button. :=) Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message ... They are seriously nice photos. My camera thanks you. I just pushed the button. :=) Eisboch Well, then, you have the answer...for you. Tom, of course, would like to see that dawg in...blue. |
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On Dec 3, 7:20*am, wrote:
On Dec 3, 6:35*am, hk wrote: Tom Francis - SWSports wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:31:45 -0700, "RG" wrote: "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in messagenews:5fsbj4lb3l01nkkn801s3e5gbqfddo5fa0@4ax .com... Check out the new CS4 tutorial... http://www.msjphotography.com/ Heh. *Adobe's been looking over the fence to see what Nik Software has been doing with their U-Point technology in Capture NX as well as their own Viveza product. *Being able to do local edits in a raw file is a huge benefit. *I've been spoiled by this ability for over a year now in CNX. It's a cool thing and it's good to see Adobe put it in ACR. I started working on the 2008 ebook today. *It's beginning to take shape. I've got about a hundred photos to resize and downsample, but I was able to put together a master concept and design in InDesign today. Can't wait to see it - it's going to be spectacular. Are the skies in your photos not as blue as you'd like them to be? No problemo! Use color control points to repaint those pale skies the vivid blue* you would like them to be! Just click the correct icon in the toolbar... Click the sky... Drag the size slider to size the control point... Adjust brightness and contrast.... Save the image using the Save As option in the File menu... It's easy! * Or orange, if you want to give your photos that snappy off-planet look! (Yes, I have a copy of Capture NX2... * :) * ) Click the sky! -----------------www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com-*Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ------------------ Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yep, that's Harry, such a master, he's better than Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Karl Strauss, and Robert Mapplethorpe combined, just ask him! He is far from the other masters, but I would say that in essence he would be on the same level with Robert Mapplethorpe on at least one subject. |
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