On Jul 4, 2007, at 6:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > most of the automatic > processing that is done by the scanning software has to do with > things that > one can already do in Photoshop such as levels and curves settings, > saturation settings, brightness and contrast settings, etc. and not > with > things that are done with Camera RAW applications.
The biggest advantage to camera RAW over a scanner DNG is the ability to change color temperature/white balance info. The rest is pretty analogous to operations possible with any image in Photoshop. For instance, I just opened up a shot I took of fireworks last night with my D200. Going through the panes I can control White Balance, Temp and Tint. Then Exposure compensations, including brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. In the next pane I can control tone curves. In the next I can add sharpening. In the next I can convert to grayscale with HSL tweaks. In the next I can do split-toning with Highlight and Shadow controls. In the next I can correct lens geometry and CA. The next is camera color profiling and the final pane is for presets. Really, the only thing I can do with Adobe Camera RAW that I can't do with a DNG from VueScan is adjust the white balance from raw sensor data. The rest of it works just about the same whether I'm adjusting a scan or a NEF. -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body