| beejaybee |
| (Marvin) |
| 28/04/2008 22:11 |
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Re: RAW questions...
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There appears to be no "curves" setting...am I correct and will this limit the positive effect I can get from using RAW?
Pass. No, you can apply curves using some other tool later.
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is a better tactic to reduce the sharpening to 0 and then to all my sharpening later after I have finished messing about with it in Elements?
Yes.
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What do the two settings "mean"...Luminance and Color.
Luminance means brightness i.e. some combination of the R G & B pixel values. Colour is a function of the difference between the R G & B pixel values. Colour noise will disappear if you convert to monochrome; luminance noise will be unchanged.
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Is there a better method of noise-reduction?
Wavelet noise reduction? Probably something like this is implemented in e.g. Noise Ninja.
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how do I then move into Element to do my final editing and sharpening and saving to jpeg etc without altering the original RAW file?
I don't think you do alter the actual image in the raw file, just the pointers to sharpness / saturation / contrast / brightness etc. that the computer uses to interpret the raw image.
To get the image into Elements, export as 16-bit TIFF.
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I could definitely notice a benefit in picking out highlight detail with one of my shots!
Not surprising really as the raw image in a 40D has 14 bit resolution, JPEG format has at most 8.