I'd seen this before but never tried it, so I was curious just how
much 'edge' it would recover from a DS file.
I took the RAW example file in DNG format from my "DA14mm Examples"
set at
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/14mm-Examples/
I rendered a full native resolution JPEG from it, and then applied
the Recover Edges utility. I rendered another full native resolution
JPEG. I then took the two JPEGs and overlaid them, put an adjustment
layer with Curves between them to lighten the rendering with
recovered edges, and jiggled the original around a little bit to help
align it. It's not perfect, but this example
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/14mm-examples/IMGP2227composite.jpg
shows the approximate amount of image area that Recover Edges will
add. "A scosh too tight" is right. There's not a lot of image edge
area to recover.
It would be of value, though, if you have to make a minor rotation
correction and don't want to lose an important edge item. It looks
like I can do a rotation of up to about .4 degrees and lose only a
small amount of original sized image area.
fun fun fun...
Godfrey
On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
So, have you ever framed your DSLR pic just a scosh to tight, and
wished
there was something you could do about it?
I've been using Thomas Knoll's Recover Edges utility for a few
months, and
sometimes it's a life saver as I often tend to frame very tightly.
Today someone mentioned a Luminous Landscape article about the
utility -
and although I may have mentioned the utility before, it seemed a
good idea
to post the LL link in case I didn't, or should someone want to
easily and
quickly read about it.
Here y'go ...
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/contents/DNG-Recover-Edges.shtml
Shel
