Don Libby
Well-known member
I decided this morning instead of just showing a simple color IR image I'd take you through some of the steps I normally do.
I was told I could shoot IR with Jpeg and make my life simpler however it wouldn't give me the total control that I want so I've go back to RAW. I shoot with a custom white balance the open the images first in Canon's Digital Photo Professional (DPP) as Adobe doesn't handle the WB very well. While in DPP I can tweak the image and decide if I want to turn it into B&W (which is much better than CS4). Once I have the image to the point I want to import it to CS it's a simple matter of hitting a button and it opens in ACR which I ignore and immediately open into Photoshop. About the only thing I do in Photoshop is run an action for the color then maybe do some minor tweaking before resizing the image to where I want it to be.
I've added an image that show 4 stages of an image just click on it for a larger size.
Don
I was told I could shoot IR with Jpeg and make my life simpler however it wouldn't give me the total control that I want so I've go back to RAW. I shoot with a custom white balance the open the images first in Canon's Digital Photo Professional (DPP) as Adobe doesn't handle the WB very well. While in DPP I can tweak the image and decide if I want to turn it into B&W (which is much better than CS4). Once I have the image to the point I want to import it to CS it's a simple matter of hitting a button and it opens in ACR which I ignore and immediately open into Photoshop. About the only thing I do in Photoshop is run an action for the color then maybe do some minor tweaking before resizing the image to where I want it to be.
I've added an image that show 4 stages of an image just click on it for a larger size.
Don