Comments on: a little less gray ..

By: Mika

Mika — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:04:32 +0000

Antonio,
altough ACR was originally intented for serving in a RAW workflow, it’s an amazing tool for several adjustments on JPEG files either. Sure, for high quality images it’s the usual way to convert to JPEG at the end of the line, but it is good to know, that ACR can handle adjustments on JPEGs very quickly too.

Concerning your question about presets and syncronize: Check out the menus in ACR and you will be able to figure it out for yourself.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:25:14 +0000

Antonio .. I apply these presets to the RAW files. I don’t apply them to JPGs. By the time I’ve generated the JPGs, most of my editing work is done.

Neil vN

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:00:20 +0000

Thanks for all the tips. I am an amateur photographer…but wants to get good at it…..really good at it. All my friends and people I don’t really knopw thinks I am a professional because I pop my camera and start taking pictures at every event I can find and after give the photos to the host. It gives me a chance to practice and get to show my work….which is very cool. Soon I will have my website on line to show case my work.

Well enough…..to my question. You said that for your B&W you create a preset in ACR? I learned that ACR works only with RAW. Good, but how you create a “Preset” on ACR and then apply them to all of your B&W’s/?

Thanks
Antonio Arias

By: planet neil - tangents » model - Seregon

planet neil - tangents » model - Seregon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:39:15 +0000

[...] bit of credit here too.) The post-processing of the image involved converting the RAW file to a warm-tinted B&W image using a preset in ACR that I like. After touching up a few blemishes, I used a Photoshop action [...]

By: Chico do Vale

Chico do Vale — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:27:10 +0000

Thanks Neil for your tips, they will help me a lot to process B&W photos. Regards, Chico do Vale.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:47:02 +0000

Eric ..

I don’t purposely make the darker areas of an image that dark. I guess it just happens as part of my workflow in editing the images in how I like the images to look. Personal taste.

I do use clarity. It controls the local contrast, and it can often make an image pop more. But I do find it makes skin appear ‘dirty’ if used at too high a setting.

Neil vN

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:13:47 +0000

Hi Neil!

Back to colors :
I often notice the dark part your photos are often totally dark. Is it because of contrast or do you intentionnaly cut the low part of the histogram ?

Second question : do you use “clarity” for color photos?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:37:51 +0000

Great tip Neil. These settings work for Lightroom too, since it uses the same ACR technology as Photoshop. Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:51:34 +0000

Ahhhh, Bridge and ACR instead of DPP… isn’t life grand?
Thanks for the settings, I’ll give them a try… I’ve got a few B&W settings I always use and it might be time to tweak them a bit!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:55:19 +0000

Uh-oh.

You just gave away a trade secret! Even though I don’t use bridge period, I can still grab that subtle warm tone now thanks to your numbers. Then again, what have you been doing here but making the professional tips intelligible to us all?

Once again, my hat’s off to Neil for clearing up even the little obfuscations.

Cheers!