I like the split screen before and after look. I am a green rookie but I wish CS3 had that feature. I am still in the beginning stages of learning CS3.
One would think Canon would have some kind of an edge when it comes to working up its own RAW images.
I updated to the latest DPP and all is working fine.
the only thing I'm not a fan of with the new DPP is that it desaturates when you adjust the levels to increase brightness...its really strange that they suddenly changed this.
ACR4/LR unfortunately are second rate when it comes to image detail. Their sharpening algorithm is CRUDE and I can't believe they bought out pixmantec and couldn't deliver better results. Some of the colours it produces are terrible, especially reds, which become orange. Nice feature set though and the curves tool is excellent.
C1 Pro has the worst feature set, but is the simplest to use, has terrific batching (although slow), produces the best detail (slightly better than DPP) and used with Magne's profiles the best colour. DPP is good on detail and if you use neutral with say a slight saturation boost good on colour. But I hate the interface and it's batching doesn't hold a candle to C1 Pro which allows to produce 3 types of output simultaneously with different colour profiles if you want. The only thing I really hate about C1, the fatc you can't get a 100% view other than when in focus mode and only of a small section.
Maybe LR and ACR4 will improve but for now I don't use them for shots where detail is paramount.
caleb condit wrote:
the only thing I'm not a fan of with the new DPP is that it desaturates when you adjust the levels to increase brightness...its really strange that they suddenly changed this.
The latest version has several annoyances/bugs. Perhaps they will fix it when the next 1D series body arrives.
Pixel Perfect wrote:
C1 Pro has the worst feature set, but is the simplest to use, has terrific batching (although slow), produces the best detail (slightly better than DPP) and used with Magne's profiles the best colour.
I agree with this. I've tried them all (except ACR in the new CS3) and I can say nothing has been able to get me to use something else. I do need to try the Magne profiles, though.
I like DPP and use it alot. I rarely if ever shoot JPGs, but it's nice to know I can 'batch' correct them in there - I may have to try that - I gave up shooting JPGs when the onlhy way to deal with them was one by one in PS.
DPP 3.0 is much improved - keping the tool box open gives the flexibility that ACR has offered.
I'm not sold on the way high-ISO images look at 100% on screen with the upgrade -the few i've printed look more like film (grain wise) but I haven't printed any tests to convince myself of what's the best.
I'll have to check out the saturation and brightness issue..I hadn't noticed.
I do like the picture styles and most other RAW converters don't read them - so I hav to wonder what other canon-specific file info isn't being read by the third party programs.
prof_fate wrote:
I like DPP and use it alot. I rarely if ever shoot JPGs, but it's nice to know I can 'batch' correct them in there - I may have to try that - I gave up shooting JPGs when the onlhy way to deal with them was one by one in PS.
Exactly the point of opening this thread. I had no idea you could do this with DPP and avoided JPG-shooting because of the tedious one-by-one editing in PS.
Of course, you have to make too many passes through your images with DPP... first to adjust white balance and exposure (using levels, which is almost as good as the exposure slide in RAW processors), and then another pass using the "crop tool."
As others have said, if the crop tool allowed slight rotation adjustment, and my feeling that the crop tool should be available within the editor (so you can do everything with one pass through the images), then this would be a killer program.
As it is, I've yet to find anything that will allow such flexible batch processing of JPGs. I took just over 500 shots in two baseball games yesterday. 481 were keepers, which is the power of the 1DM2N focusing system. DPP allowed me to get them online in a little more than an hour.
