Comments on: Learning ACR with Bob van Ooik!

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:53:00 +0000

Thanks, Bob, for your reply. And thanks again to you and Carl for the video.

By: V-studio Blog

V-studio Blog — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:58:33 +0000

I recorded this conversation…

A few days ago Carl Rytterfalk asked me to show him how I deal with RAW files in Adobe Camera RAW. Using a very cool feature of iChat I took over his screen, feels very science fiction, and showed him my workflow. After I explained a thing or two he to…

By: Bob van Ooik

Bob van Ooik — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:36:49 +0000

Ted, I don’t use clarity too much. For it serves a different purpose than contrast. Contrast is there to alter the complete histogram, with clarity you enhance local contrast. As it can create some artifacts I am not a big fan. I like smooth continuous tones and with clarity it gets harder, more dirty or grungy. Simply not my style (at the moment). I do use it though a lot with the local adjustment brush. With clarity set to minus I use it to smooth skins. Mmm, maybe a subject for another video :)

By: Ruvy

Ruvy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:21:12 +0000

Thank you guys. This is a great use of technology and certainly very helpful too. Regardless of the above its fun to see you are enjoying the process and each other the way you do.

By: cerement

cerement — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:18:25 +0000

Definitely a few useful tips in there. And another great tip from Johan in the DPReview thread: DNG Converter 5.4 converts DP2 .x3f files so that they can be opened in Lightroom 2.3, no waiting for 2.4!

By: Paul Petersen

Paul Petersen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:25:39 +0000

Great getting to hear you two interact over using ACR. It is always interesting to see how others use the knobs on this tool to get great results.
Great collaboration! Keep it up.
Paul

By: Bob Dodds

Bob Dodds — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:52:23 +0000

I do not have ACR. I can generalize from this to use exposure controls first and not to lean on curves. Many other things are said, such as do not always sharpen. In gimp ufraw, the exposure settings are saved, which makes for a quick workflow on a series of images, with just a little blackpoint tuning. I have not been able to get cinepaint to work in linux yet. Setting black and white and gray in gimp, 8-bit, levels, after ufraw raw 16-bit plugin, is tricky(use b/w/gray in input and/or output? mix.) and not as good. vuescan is another linux option, and it can generate icc profile from coloraid.de card and then apply to dng’s but I have not tried that. I am not getting color consistency with diff lenses, so I may have to do icc vuescan step.

By: Carl Rytterfalk

Carl Rytterfalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:38:15 +0000

Chunsum, you wanna be next? :D

By: Chunsum

Chunsum — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:21:54 +0000

This is so much fun!!!

By: Berryway

Berryway — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:05:17 +0000

Aahh, I got it!

Now I will enjoy your lessons, parting with my photos.

Cheers, love this place.

By: Carl Rytterfalk

Carl Rytterfalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:31:24 +0000

Scott, we might do that. This was a small step for man kind but a huge one for me and Bob. :D

By: Scott Greiff

Scott Greiff — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:55:55 +0000

This is great stuff, Carl. You and Bob should do a regular Sigma / Foveon podcast! :)

By: Bob van Ooik

Bob van Ooik — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:16:57 +0000

thanks Carl! ;)

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:07:05 +0000

Bob, you didn’t mention the clarity tool. Do you use it?

I use it instead of the contrast tool to give a photo some pop. It also has a sharpening “effect” as well.

What are your thoughts?

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:53 +0000

Great exchange! Thanks Carl & Bob!

By: Carl Rytterfalk

Carl Rytterfalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:37:06 +0000

On the run, but with iPhone in my hands nothing is impossible! :) should be ok now. Will fix YouTube too later.

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Learning ACR with Bob von Ooik!- MakeaPost — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:21:39 +0000

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By: Bob van Ooik

Bob van Ooik — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:11:17 +0000

Carl, please change my name! Von should read van, that von sounds way too German :D