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Photoshop actions to help with Post Processing after RAW conversion

August 31, 2011

Adrian, a regular follower of the Tangents blog, (better known as the ever-helpful Trev in the Tangents forum), has the guest spot this week. Adrian has expanded on his explanation of the actions that he mentioned in the comments section of the recent article on Selective Sharpening in Photoshop. Even better, he has made it available as two downloadable actions as well.

Photoshop actions to help with Post Processing after RAW conversion (free download)

Intro:

The following downloadable actions with the instructions on their use can save some time and grief on getting a good result after RAW conversion. Even using your RAW converter may not get a fully desirable end result and these very easy to use actions will help in that regard. They are not complicated and you don’t need any plug-ins to achieve a simple lift to your final image.

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so I shot in RAW format, now what?

June 19, 2011

a RAW workflow – the first step – changing your default settings

As a bit of a forward nudge to those who are entirely new to a RAW workflow, or who hesitantly moved to shooting in RAW – here’s the next step forward – changing the defaults for your RAW file.

Before we even get there, shooting in RAW is very much part of the serious photographer’s environment. Shooting just in JPG is rarely an option. As I have mentioned, there are few occasions where shooting in JPG might be an advantage. So with that in mind … RAW it is. And has to be.

Now, some notes for the newcomers to shooting in RAW.
There are a few things you have to keep in mind:

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I live 20 miles at 65 mph outside New York ..

November 19, 2008

The title is pure nonsense.  I live 20 miles outside of New York.  That’s it.  The complete description of the distance.  Actually, I live 21.19 miles from B&H in Manhattan, which is like magnetic north for many of us photographers.  We always feel drawn towards the toy-store.  Now that 21.19 miles of course could mean either 30 minutes or 3 hours of driving, depending on traffic through the Lincoln tunnel.  But I digress.

I could have described my distance from my house to New York as 20 miles, or disregarding traffic, as 18 minutes at 65mph.  But it is nonsensical to describe my distance from New York as 20 miles at 65 mph.   The 65mph becomes a superfluous bit of data when stated like that.

So why the strange title for this posting?  Because as a digital photographer I see the same kind of nonsense perpetrated on a daily basis when image size is described in terms of absolute pixel dimensions (600 x 400 pixels) and a specific dpi such as 72dpi or 300 dpi also demanded.
It  is unnecessary, or worse, confusing.

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