I'll second that. RAW conversion becomes almost an automatic with some practice. And you shouldn't have to reduce highlights after conversion. Unless you're really short of storage space, you should be converting your RAW files to tiffs, not jpegs. On Jul 8, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> Bob, > > Do your work in the raw converter, not on converted JPEGs. When > you get > the hang of RAW you'll be able to reduce the time you spend on making > conversions substantially. Get "The Book." > > Bob, yesterday I converted something like 30+ pics using a new and an > established preset in the ACR converter. Total time to the > finished images > about 2 minutes. The rest of the time spent was the usual final > cropping > and tweaks. When you get the hang of it, it can be fast. Don't > give up > just because it's slow and unfamiliar in the beginning. > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Bob Sullivan > >> I took about 30 pictures in raw and have spent too much time >> converting > them. >> First I did 30 raw into jpegs, then highlight reduction on the jpegs. >> Uploaded from full 4 meg jpegs to a reduced size by Picassa. >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/rf.sullivan/FarmerSMarket02 >> >> I can see better results in terms of details in the highlights, >> but this is starting to be work not fun. :-( > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
