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10/10/2005 09:49:35 PM · #1 |
so, I have just discovered acdsee. It seems like a great product for organizing and viewing photos. What I especially like about it is how quickly it brings up thumbs and previews. But as far as I can tell, it doesn't read the canon cr2 from the rebel xt. Anybody know how to make it read that format? or do you know of another program that is just as good, and quick that will read the cr2 from my 350d?
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10/10/2005 10:06:09 PM · #2 |
Rawshooter essentials, and it's free. Works great.
RSE
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10/10/2005 10:33:33 PM · #3 |
hmmm... that seems like a really cool program. can you alter the photo and then open it up directly in ps cs2? or do you have to save as TIFF first?
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10/10/2005 10:51:24 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by fstopopen:
hmmm... that seems like a really cool program. can you alter the photo and then open it up directly in ps cs2? or do you have to save as TIFF first?
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Without saving it no other program will be aware that it exists since it's only in memory and only for the program using it. You have to save it before any other program can use it.
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10/10/2005 11:04:54 PM · #5 |
well, in a sense you are correct. However in many programs you can edit the raw and then "export to photoshop" or something like that. What it does is saves the "changes" you made to an xmp file. This file is very, very small because it just announces the changes you made to the file, not duplicating it.
If you have to save as a tiff, then you have the original raw, the converted tiff, and then a photoshop file taking up space on your hard drive. That is a tremendous amount of space. I am still getting used to the idea of raw, and I think I am just going to have to buy more hard disks ;)
Thanks for all of the advice. Raw shooter is a lot quicker for viewing. I don't like the "batch convert" way of exporting. I can see it is GREAT for large amounts of pictures, but I rarely adjust two pictures the same way. I suppose I am just being a baby because there is no program that does exactly what I want. oh well.
drake
edit: oh, and I really just want something to VIEW these beasts with not edit them. Photoshop does a great job of that. The windows viewer is REALLY slow. I love the fast review time, I just wish I could right click on an image and open it in ps right from there.
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10/11/2005 12:32:25 AM · #6 |
FWIW The batch mode in RSE treats EACH photo differently, just as you've set it. Similar to XMP files, RSE creates settings files for each photo (they are in a subdirectory).
What's also very nice about it is the workflow--you can use the slideshow, see the shots full screen with the applied settings, assign it a 1, 2, 3, priority or mark it as trash. Then you can look at all your 1's, and then work on that group, setting them individually and in groups if you want to apply settings to more than one.
But what I really like about it is the results.
I also use Bibble. It has a lot more features than RSE, and allows cropping, arbitrary rotation, and even lens correction. It does this all with sidecar files, and you can set up preset queues which have your settings for scaling, compression, destination, etc., and drop one or more files on them for processing in the background. But while it's feature rich, and works well, it's unreliable and buggy. And I believe I get better conversions from RSE.
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10/11/2005 02:04:22 AM · #7 |
Photoshop can save the RAW adjustments to xmp files. If another program creates these in the same format as photoshop understands then it is possible for photoshop to read them as long as they are in the place photoshop expects. As far as export goes, isn't that a form of 'save as' unless it opens photoshop as part of the export.
Message edited by author 2005-10-11 02:04:36.
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