leicamann Posted April 25, 2012 Share #1  Posted April 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here are 2 examples of an image that at first glance looks hopeless, in jpeg..of course it would be hopeless. But today we have some amazing tools that are accessible through Adobe Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6, called Camera RAW 7.4.  I won't go into all the technical aspects of this but I will explain the reason for the "red tulips"  Red, especially intense vibrant red, be it in a sunset, sunrise, red coat, red hat, red tomato , red rose or red tulips has always been problematic for digital cameras and yes even the S2. Canon has for years taken the brunt of the criticism because they are the main staple for professionals. Over the years Adobe has had camera RAW, it did some cute things, sometimes useful things but was never a fully viable option until 2 or 3 years ago, now it has become full fledged.. I chose the most difficult of conversion, to show you that it IS possible and no..Life is NOT too short for RAW. Enjoy and thanks for looking  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pauledell Posted April 25, 2012 Share #2 Â Posted April 25, 2012 John, Â An interesting development. Perhaps I need to upgrade from CS3 and Adobe Bridge. Â Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted April 25, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted April 25, 2012 JRM, Â Cool! Gorgeous colors in the first! So, what exactly did you do to get these results? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share #4  Posted April 26, 2012 John, An interesting development. Perhaps I need to upgrade from CS3 and Adobe Bridge.  Paul  Paul if you go to Adobe, you can get Photoshop CS6 and a 60 day free trial, its still in the Beta stage, but works fine. Secondly remember if you got Photoshop Elements somewhere, that will enable you to be in the "upgrade" status..so it won't cost as much as a "Full version"  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share #5  Posted April 26, 2012 JRM, Cool! Gorgeous colors in the first! So, what exactly did you do to get these results? Thanks.   I apologize, the first image is just the RAW file..its been unprocessed..its not a finished image, the second is the finished product. Sorry I didn't make that clear, I thought it would be obvious at a glance.  The process I use in RAW is quite complex, I would have to do a video of what I do, otherwise what I say wouldn't make any sense. They don't call computers " the Dark Arts" for nothing  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted April 26, 2012 Share #6 Â Posted April 26, 2012 Interesting, the purplish colors in the first image were not as prominent on my iPad as they are on my computer screen. The reds are better in the second image, but the image looks sort of flat to me. I guess, there must be something wrong with my eyes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share #7  Posted April 26, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Interesting, the purplish colors in the first image were not as prominent on my iPad as they are on my computer screen. The reds are better in the second image, but the image looks sort of flat to me. I guess, there must be something wrong with my eyes.   LOL:rolleyes:.. I don't think there is anything WRONG with your eyes. It is contingent on a good monitor and one that is calibrated. But thats a whole other kettle of fish. My main concern is when this goes to the printing press, that its wysgt( what you see is what you get). I know that the gamma on a Mac will be overly bright compared to a PC. A proper setup would involve: 1) Eizo Colour Edge Monitor 2) AMD Fire GL 8800 Pro 12Bit colour graphics card Depending on which version of those you get, its almost the cost of an M9  I often view my webpage on different peoples monitors, it can be a disappointing experience. The only place I've gone to ( and mot been disappointed) is my brothers, but he is an IT engineer, so of course he has proper colour management on both his Mac and PC. I calibrate my Moms as well    Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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