Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #41  Posted December 15, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well this is not bad really . New raw M8 shot with IR , still a touch magenta but I hit AUTO and this was the absolute first thing i did. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/11315-beta-of-photoshop-cs3-available-from-the-15th-of-dec/?do=findComment&comment=118978'>More sharing options...
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scho Posted December 15, 2006 Share #42  Posted December 15, 2006 On my MacBook Pro, I have CS2 and CS3 beta now loaded, and both of them work. Have not tried running them a the same time, but I can use either. One thing I noticed missing in CS3 was the Web Gallery creation automation. It was available as a PS tool from Bridge. Great way to create galleries, as most of us know. It now seems to be missing from Bridge CS3 and PS CS3. This is not good for some of us that create lots of large Web galleries (event stuff).  Anybody see or know anything different from this?  LJ Yes, I also had no problem using CS2 and CS3 on my Mac (10.4.8). However, I did notice that after using CS3 and then opening CS2 my custom color settings in CS2 were changed to the default color settings in CS3. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #43  Posted December 15, 2006 Okay now hit WB and than auto Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/11315-beta-of-photoshop-cs3-available-from-the-15th-of-dec/?do=findComment&comment=118985'>More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #44 Â Posted December 15, 2006 I could not register CS3 not sure what is going on there Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkM6 Posted December 15, 2006 Share #45 Â Posted December 15, 2006 New raw M8 shot with IR , still a touch magenta but... Â Guy, did you mean that the shot was taken with a filter attached to the lens? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #46 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Yes this is with a IR filter and just goofying off here ACR looks a WHOLE lot better on these M8 files. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrism Posted December 15, 2006 Share #47 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I can run either CS2 or CS3, but not both at once. Guy, for the registration, did you visit this page to get your CS3 beta serial number? Â Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #48 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Thanks did not even see that . i got the number , see if I can register it Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whsouthworth Posted December 15, 2006 Share #49 Â Posted December 15, 2006 I just downloaded the beta of Photoshop CS3. The performance on my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro (3GB 2.33 GHz) is scary fast. Â The manipulations I've tried so far are on a 75mb DNG file - Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, Gaussian blur, Channel Mixer, Healing Brush, etc. -- are instantaneous. I haven't been as impressed by a performance upgrade in a long, long time. The file was a Leica M8 native DNG scaled in Camera Raw to 17 x 25 at 240bpi 16 bit. Â I'm also very pleased by the interface changes to Channel Mixer and to the controls for Camera Raw in Bridge. I shoot mostly B&W and I like to change from color to B&W by turning off the saturation in Camera Raw and moving the Temperature bar until I get a filtration I like. As I played with the new controls, I found them all very appealing in their results. They seemed much more in tune with the my needs than the controls in the old Bridge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAG Posted December 15, 2006 Share #50  Posted December 15, 2006 Looking good...  looking very good  Imants,  This a picture. The dignity and somewhat perplexed look of this man in front of the camera tells a lot of this human ritual : being shot… portrayed. Stunning Thx Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJL Posted December 15, 2006 Share #51 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Guy, From what I am seeing, ACR 4 is automatically defaulting to ACR 3.6 for the M8 conversions, and that is why things look a lot better when you select Auto WB. The older version of ACR defaulted to the "embedded" profile from the M8 and they did not look too good at all. If you went to the last tba or so in ACR and selected ACR 3.6 as your camera profile instead of "embedded", then when back to Auto WB, things looked a lot better right from the start. Â Not sure if this explaind things or not, but I have noticed that conversions look better now from the M8 DNG files than originally in CS2. Â LJ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted December 15, 2006 Share #52 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Lightroom a great application but all this puts it in a bit of a no man's land situation, not having burning and dodging facilities and CS3 with this much improved raw convertor with preset capabilities. Then again there may be some real goodies in store, Aperture's life is going to be pretty tough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Maio Posted December 15, 2006 Share #53 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Has anyone tried the re-designed "Bridge" yet? I'm just begining to explore, but I noticed that when I open a folder of images in Bridge CS3, the previews look real soft. If you highlight one, it looks fine in the viewing window, but it would be hard to use bridge to cull out images that are really borderline soft. Â Perhaps the speed vs. preview quality it biased too much toward speed? I have to investigate more when I have time. Maybe there s a preset I missed. Otherwise. I like the new look a lot! Â Â Duh - As I suspected, there is a preset in Bridge that offers "High Quality" thumbnails - that fixes my concern. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJL Posted December 15, 2006 Share #54 Â Posted December 15, 2006 John, I think it is the speed issue. There is an option in Preferences that lets you select "hgiher quality" previews in the thumbnails. This will take more time to build each on, as it did in the older version of Bridge. The thumbnails displayed in CS3 look like they are the "as shot" version of things extracted from the RAW file. When you select one, there is an enhancement on the fly that is displayed in the viewer window on the right side. Just my observations so far. Â LJ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #55  Posted December 15, 2006 Look at this guys. Remember the Yosemite shot the very anemic image of Jack, First one just brought into ACR than the second one applied the M8 preset . A whole lot better , maybe still a little very slight magenta but looks so much better. Looks to me Thomas knoll got some M8 images with the IR filters because this is a major improvement. The key here is the M8 preset. need to figure a way to make that the default than work from there Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/11315-beta-of-photoshop-cs3-available-from-the-15th-of-dec/?do=findComment&comment=119075'>More sharing options...
jweir Posted December 15, 2006 Share #56  Posted December 15, 2006 This link has a number of good videos on (some) of the new features of CS3  http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3/index.html  Jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #57  Posted December 15, 2006 I think this is it for the M8 , i have blue skies and files are really looking clean with the IR filter on. Now how can i set a different profile in ACR like a Joseph Holmes profile.  pretty clean Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/11315-beta-of-photoshop-cs3-available-from-the-15th-of-dec/?do=findComment&comment=119101'>More sharing options...
Jamie Roberts Posted December 15, 2006 Share #58 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Guy--that's some improvement. They got the WB fixed--that's for sure. Â OK--now I'm downloading CS3 to see how it does! Â BTW--you might be stuck going out to ProPhoto--you can't go to JHolmes from ACR (or you couldn't in CS2, anyway). Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 15, 2006 Share #59 Â Posted December 15, 2006 Yea that is what i am thinking Jamie , i do have it open in CS# though so it converts over. i can deal with this. Now i just have to deal with ACR workflow but if the files are good , i will do anything. This is so much better than the battle I have been fighting. I feel really good about this. Okay C1 your turn Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAG Posted December 15, 2006 Share #60  Posted December 15, 2006 Tried to open CS3 : quits instantly… Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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