Hi Aaron, Do you have PSCS 1? It's just about as good as version 2. I have one at home, two at work. Version two adds some nice tweaks, but the results are pretty much the same. The upsizing from conversion is very good in both. You have to dodge and burn post conversion. But you can of course pull down highlights and pump up shadows (or the opposite) at the conversion stage using the exposure, brightness and shadows sliders. Post conversion the highlights/shadows tool is also very effective. Better than dodge and burn in some situations. Among the best features of two is the noise filter. In PSCS one, you can eliminate some noise in conversion with luminosity control and color noise filter. Paul Paul On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Aaron Reynolds wrote:
> One thing I noticed about the Pentax Photo Lab software is that it > took care of hot pixels in a 3200 ISO image in a way that none of the > other programs I tried out did, without using a noise filter. Does > the camera "know" where its weakest pixels are and somehow convey that > information to the software? > > I'm embarking upon a project that will consist of very low light > images. An upgrade to CS2 is out of my budget for this project. What > do you folks recommend for RAW conversion for OS X? > > Can dodging and burning be done at the conversion stage? Are some > converters better at upscaling than others? > > -Aaron > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: Re: Windoze versions and DS > Date: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:56 am > Size: 399 bytes > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:59 AM, mike wilson wrote: > >> OK. What's quicker? I've never used it to adjust images, always >> doing that in PS. > > What do you use it for, then? > > The Pentax LAB and BROWSER are slow and do poor RAW conversions > compared to almost any other RAW converter I've tested. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
