Photoshop CS

[Rockyw]

OK CS users, I bought the RAW plug in for PS7 that first came out. That as you know did not work well with the S2. I have not upgrades to CS yet so I still us EX. Is there a setting in the CS RAW converter for the S2? or are there presets you have found to use that are like the in camera settings? And last what do you export at? can you export at the origanal camera settings of 4256 X 2848 at 72 PPI. I would think that would be best and then crop as needed from there. Busy time is coming so help me decide between staying with EX or upgrading to CS. THANKS :rofl:

[Tom V]

Upgrade.

There are presets for the S2. There are better color temp controls, shadow, contrast, tone, noise reduction, and other controls. All are better than EX. All are interactive and quick. Interpolation is there for the 35MB size, and a few even larger.

There are many other "photography" tools in CS that are not in PS7. The Shadow / Highlight adjustment controls might even be worth the upgrade cost by itself.

Downside? If you use Mac, it doesn't work with the old OS9.

:beerchug:

[Rockyw]

Tom

Where do you get the presets, does adobe have them on line or what? I have a fellow photographer that has CS and a Nikon camera, I would like to play with it before going away from EX. Thanks

[Tom V]

The "presets" are built into Photoshop CS, you don't have to go anywhere to get them. You can view the thumbnails of jpgs, tifs, and RAW all in the Photoshop Browser (resizable thumbnails). When you click to open a RAW file, Photoshop opens the RAW converter window where you select your options and review the live preview. Click OK and the converter processes the image and it opens in the standard Photoshop image window.

IF your friend has the program, you can bring your CompactFlash card, or a CD with image files (including RAW), and open YOUR images in his program. It will not mess up anything if you use Fuji and he uses Nikon.

The Photoshop CS program may have been supplied with a CD full of demonstrations by Deke McClellan (sp?), a certified PS expert. The videos on that disk give you a good glimpse into the workings of the program - it is worth watching. My upgrade copies came with the training CDs.