PS Processing

[BobbyC]

I used Phase One Capture for a while, shooting RAW, you can't beat it, well that was until RawShooter Premium finally came out, I custom white balance in camera and rarely have to use PSCS2 for anything other than retouching portraits, making collages or anything with text work. I found PS RAW to be the worst converter of all I've tried. Very grainy, noisey results compared to RS, C1, Breezebrowser or even Canon Digital Photo Pro and bridge is the s l o w e s t browser I've ever seen.

[ShutteredEye]

Originally Posted by Patti Edens

If you already know about Parameters, ignore the rest of this post...

Not with RAW. But, if you are shooting jpegs, check to see what parameters you are using.

Just go to the menu and look at Parameters. I don't use either of the preset parameters that are on my 20D. I use Set 1 and customize it the way I like it. I use -2 on contrast and 0 for the others (Sharpness, Saturation and Color Tone.)

Just so you know, the scale is weird. It has 5 stops - -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. So, zero is not "nothing" if that double negative makes any sense whatsoever.

I'd advise that if you are going to shoot jpeg, play around with the Sets and take some trial shots. Put your camera on a tripod and shoot the same thing (something that has a lot of colors, contrast, etc) over and over with different parameter settings. See which one comes out the best for you.

This will also vary though with different shooting conditions. I haven't figured out when to change mine, so I just always shoot RAW with jpeg. If the jpeg turns out okay, I'm done. If not, I work on the RAW file.

Sorry, That was way too wordy,

Patti

Thanks Patti. I shoot almost exclusively RAW though.