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Maikng the LEAP from .jpg on to RAW

pfiltz
History: I've owned D60's for 5 years. Now I have a 1DMKII, and plan on shooting RAW. I'm currently using PS6, since it's always done what I need. My main body of work is portraiture & weddings.

DUMB ? To edit RAW images, Do I need Phase1 in addition to PS6 that I currently have? Will PS6 edit RAW images alone? I've heard quite a bit about CS1, CS2, Phase 1, etc..., it's quite over whelming, since I've never used any of them.

The way I understand it, CS1 is PS7, CS2 is PS8, and so on.

What do I need to crop, sharpen, and adjust RAW images once DL'd from the camera to my system.

Any and ALL suggestions will be greatly appreciated.....
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  • John7
    First of all, you won't make a mistake by shooting RAW. The second I started, I never looked back. I have about all the converters and in my opinion, none compare with CO Pro for color, speed, sharpening, cropping, and rotating...you get the picture. 95% of the time I get what I am looking for from CO without having to resort to additional processing outside of CO. I know there are a couple of good products coming of age but they still need some maturing. I think ultimately they will give CO a run for their money unless CO stays a few steps ahead of the game...and I hope they work hard to do that.

    JOHN
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  • pfiltz
    Do you mean PO for Phase One -vs- CO [?]
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  • Anonymous
    pfiltz,

    Phase One is the company that makes the industry leading Digital Backs and DSLR RAW converting software - Capture One PRO and LE

    ...so PO makes CO and DBs 😉

    John says it quite well...
    RAW is the way to photograph, it is the digital camera's Negative
    RAW is the most data you can get from your CCD or CMOS chip. Now what you do with that data is where Capture One comes in with the most sophisticated algorithms there are. It simply comes down to Math, and Phase One has excels with it.
    RAW image files are unedited by Capture One leaving all these data intact. Therefore, you can always can go back to the original file and process a whole different way. This is important because software continues to improve and algorithms get better and better; and you will be able to process an older RAW file with a whole new result as time carries on.

    Yes, we are working very hard to remain the best in image quality and workflow efficiency. Keep in mind this is a software built by photographers.
    Not just Beta Testers, but directly from photographer input. There are not too may softwares out there that provide a direct link to their R&D Team and Phase One provides this right from the software ( Help > Technical Feedback... ) and from this User Forum.
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  • Arizona Bill
    [quote="pfiltz" wrote:
    Now I have a 1DMKII, and plan on shooting RAW. I'm currently using PS6, since it's always done what I need.

    DUMB ? To edit RAW images, Do I need Phase1 in addition to PS6 that I currently have? Will PS6 edit RAW images alone?


    Photoshop 6 has no RAW support. Photoshop 7 had a $99 RAW converter plug-in but it doesn't support your camera and it's no longer available anyway.

    Photoshop CS and CS2 have good RAW converters that support the 1D M II (which I have). However the CS converter is not as good for this camera as the Capture One converter (I'm using V 3.7 LE).

    [quote="pfiltz" wrote:

    The way I understand it, CS1 is PS7, CS2 is PS8, and so on.

    No, V7 is V7, CS is V8 and CS2 is V9.

    [quote="pfiltz" wrote:

    What do I need to crop, sharpen, and adjust RAW images once DL'd from the camera to my system.

    Any and ALL suggestions will be greatly appreciated.....

    Get Capture One (you can try it out for 45 days free I think, 15 days for LE and 30 days for Pro) and convert to tiffs, then you can edit the tiffs in Photoshop 6 if you want to do more to them. Capture One will crop, sharpen and do the overall tonal adjustments fine.

    Bill
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  • pfiltz
    Thanks for the info.

    I've heard some good things about PO, but wasn't exactly sure what all it does.

    My work flow is usually the same in PS

    Crop 8x10
    Minor Cloning if needed
    Bump Contrast a bit
    Sharpen
    Sharpen Edges
    Vingette Edges with the Gradient Tool
    SAVE

    The only thing I usually do different is on weddings. Since there is so many images, I run a batch command on a specific folder to sharpen them.

    I'm probably going to buy the pro edition of PO, and see how it goes. My next move now is to get (2) 6 gig Hatachi MD's, and a FireWire Card to download my images from the MkII.

    Right now, I'm removing the MD from it, and throwing it into my D60 to retreive the data.

    BTW, does anyone know of any good forums specifically around the MkII outside of DPR.

    I was also wondering: Will PO let me rotate images without degredation to the image. I used on piece of software to mark horizontal images to rotate them after I had edited, and it screwed up the image size with regard to DPI.

    Is there a cloning tool in PO Pro as PS has...?
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