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7ian7
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I'm achieving anything but flat color rendition using ACR, but I've downloaded the C1 4 demo and will do a bit more experimenting.
Regarding PhotoShop, pretty much every image I process requires at least a handful of adjustment layers. It's the only way I know to achieve impressive depth and contrast while avoiding blocked-up areas and retaining detail across an image that has a wide tonal range. Wouter was mentioning these kind of techniques earlier in the thread, and I've evangelized about them ad nauseum in another post. It's a way more "down to earth" method of working than describing it here may make it sound. It makes things easier, not more difficult, and way, way way more precise. And no that precision doesn't have to mean sacrificing "gutsiness". Anyway, to me it doesn't feel like heavy artillery; the program just runs super-smooth, rarely a crash and none in recent memory.
I don't mind experimenting with other converters — I've tried a bunch of them — but I tend to end up back in ACR and PhotoShop (despite my resistance to the idea of such industry dominance) and it really is way better than it was only a year ago.
Regarding PhotoShop, pretty much every image I process requires at least a handful of adjustment layers. It's the only way I know to achieve impressive depth and contrast while avoiding blocked-up areas and retaining detail across an image that has a wide tonal range. Wouter was mentioning these kind of techniques earlier in the thread, and I've evangelized about them ad nauseum in another post. It's a way more "down to earth" method of working than describing it here may make it sound. It makes things easier, not more difficult, and way, way way more precise. And no that precision doesn't have to mean sacrificing "gutsiness". Anyway, to me it doesn't feel like heavy artillery; the program just runs super-smooth, rarely a crash and none in recent memory.
I don't mind experimenting with other converters — I've tried a bunch of them — but I tend to end up back in ACR and PhotoShop (despite my resistance to the idea of such industry dominance) and it really is way better than it was only a year ago.