Dave Doyle wrote:
Does anybody have a feel for when the Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS will support the new Canon 20D?
Thanks
Dave
You don’t need ACR for your 20D. Use the Photo pro (Grey disk) which comes with the camera. Carry out the adjustments you would normally do with ACR and simply "transfer" the image to Photoshop via Canon’s own interface. You end up with a properly corrected image in 16 bit TIFF and an "Untitled" 48 meg Photoshop image to work on. You can reference the "original" while working on the untitled.
FWIW I think this is a far more elegant solution than Adobe’s ‘freeze the PC’ deal while their browser is open. More power to Canon for this initiative. Probably the best part is that for the first time, you can manipulate a (Canon) RAW image outside of Photoshop and save the results as a 16 bit TIFF which can be read by other photo editing programs like Corel Photo Paint (rant begins) which doesn’t need activation and is less than half the price of PS (rant ends).
Perhaps it’s underlying benefit is that anyone who has held off getting CS and gets a copy of Photo Pro, can manipulate their (10D, 1Ds, 20D)RAW images and move them to Photoshop 7 (presumably 6 too) for further editing without losing the value of shooting RAW. This loosens the stranglehold Adobe forced on us by removing the ACR plugin for 7, the day CS was released.
I currently have Photo Paint 11 which integrates completely with Corel draw. About 80% of the work I get handed, is created with draw so such integration is a major feature. The Photo Pro browse-and-adjust thing works really well.
I can open the TIFF files it creates with paint 11 and I am very satisfied with the printed results. Paint 11 is a little agricultural compared to PS but it has many features not available in PS too.
Me thinks my Corel is getting upgraded to version 12 in about 3 hours if the distributor has stock! Good on ya Canon! And the photographs from the 20D are unbelievably good too!
Ryadia