A huge step in the right direction and acknowledgement of the still ground-breaking impact of digital photography in the design world.. No longer are you as a digital photographer or you as a designer provided with a fresh-out-of-the-camera file required to go to another application to bring in your image. Corel has long been the Swiss Army Knife of file formats and adding RAW to the mix continues this fine tradion. Welcome to X4
That is another step in the right direction. The camera and the tagalong RAW format proliferation is a never ending tide against which to swim. There is much work yet to do…
<Rikk Flohr> wrote in message news:11845@coreldraw.com... That is another step in the right direction. The camera and the tagalong RAW format proliferation is a never ending tide against which to swim. There is much work yet to do… How true but Corel's finally in the game....Batter' up Ted Rikk FlohrFleeting Glimpse Imageswww.fleetingglimpse.comVisit my on-line print store! Click Here http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/3310/11845.aspx#11845
How true but Corel's finally in the game....Batter' up
Ted
Edward Thurston said:How true but Corel's finally in the game
I for one would like to see eyedropper tools and color information displayed so we can gray balance straight from our RAW conversion. Those additional features would make RAW conversions sing as it is now all RAW convertes lack true professional features. For now we have a start, as long as Corel continues to have service releases for RAW the expand camera support.
I fully agree with you David! My push for getting a info palette with color markers, which will work with all tools, will be ongoing.
I tried many different RAW converters and I applaud Corels effort to add RAW support into PP in my opinion Corel needs to either go all the way and do it correctly or partner with a 3rd party vendor who will. If you can't gray balance in the RAW converter during the conversion process you're guessing at color and unfortunately no RAW converter has this feature at this time.
This may be why Corel added the RAW Lab as it is just so there is some support PP until some RAW converter provider does it right and they can then partner with them.
David,
you said "...as it is now all RAW convertes lack true professional features." I am really curious which RAW processing programmes you have tried. There are quite a number of programmes that are totally professional and lack nothing in terms of preparing a RAW for final adjustments in a standard photo editor. Usually, the only final adjustments are manipulations rather than colour correction, or converting from RGB to CMYK. Many RAW programmes allow a reasonable choice of output profiles include Wide gamut RGB, ProPhotoRGB, etc.
Most RAW software has a dedicated white balance tool (you can click on any shade of grey, it does not have to be white) and they have a continuous RGB readout as you move your cursor over the image. Most have levels and curves and have a multitude of other features. Lightroom and PS, and DXO have a multitude of other colur adjustment sliders that can fine tune one colour without affecting other colours. Canon has a Picture Style Editor that gives similar functionality and lets you select 100 different points and adjust them to taste. This particluar editor provides a before and after readout of all selected values.
I cannot figure out what you feel is lacking?
Best regards,