ACR support for Canon 20D

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Dave Doyle
Sep 30, 2004
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Does anybody have a feel for when the Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS will support the new Canon 20D?

Thanks
Dave

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Eric Gill
Sep 30, 2004
"Dave Doyle" wrote in news:cjh890$2cd$1
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Does anybody have a feel for when the Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS will support the new Canon 20D?

Officially? Who knows.

But if you do some digging on the Adobe forums, you’ll find that 2.3 apparently already supports the 20D – they just don’t bother to tell you, since it’s not "official."
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Ryadia_
Sep 30, 2004
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
JD
John Doe
Oct 2, 2004
Version 2.3 of ACR supports the 20, it just isn’t official yet. As for the software that comes with the camera it is a joke at best.

John

"Ryadia" wrote in message
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
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Ryadia_
Oct 3, 2004
John Doe wrote:

Version 2.3 of ACR supports the 20, it just isn’t official yet. As for the software that comes with the camera it is a joke at best.
John
The use of RAW and how fast the applications which handle the files work at are related to not just having a fast PC but also using a fast card and reader running on either Firewire or USB-2. Nearly all USB-1 card readers will bog down getting the initial images, ACR 2.3 is no different, in fact worse than Photo Pro because it interferes with the operation of Photoshop itself while the browse is open. Not so with Canon’s browser.

I really enjoy these highly informative one-liners condemning a product with such a total description of what is wrong with it.

Ryadia
EG
Eric Gill
Oct 3, 2004
Ryadia wrote in
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John Doe wrote:

Version 2.3 of ACR supports the 20, it just isn’t official yet. As for the software that comes with the camera it is a joke at best.
John
The use of RAW and how fast the applications which handle the files work at are related to not just having a fast PC but also using a fast card and reader running on either Firewire or USB-2.

Unless, of course, you take the sane option and copy the images to hard disc instead of taking the idiotic step of trying to work off removeable media.

Nearly all USB-1
card readers will bog down getting the initial images, ACR 2.3 is no different, in fact worse than Photo Pro because it interferes with the operation of Photoshop itself while the browse is open. Not so with Canon’s browser.

I really enjoy these highly informative one-liners condemning a product with such a total description of what is wrong with it.

I really enjoy watching your illucid rants. Do you really believe you’re addressing the same issue that was under discussion?
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Ryadia_
Oct 3, 2004
Eric Gill wrote:

I really enjoy watching your illucid rants. Do you really believe you’re addressing the same issue that was under discussion?
And you’d really be able to understand it too *NOT*!
If you actually had a clue you’d know getting the images onto your hard drive in the first place is the problem. But then you have other problems, don’t you Eric… Genetic ones!
EG
Eric Gill
Oct 3, 2004
Ryadia wrote in
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Eric Gill wrote:

I really enjoy watching your illucid rants. Do you really believe you’re addressing the same issue that was under discussion?
And you’d really be able to understand it too *NOT*!

A simple "no" would have sufficed. There was no need to be incoherent again.

If you actually had a clue you’d know getting the images onto your hard drive in the first place is the problem.

Tsk. You’re the first person I’ve ever heard of that has problems with drag-n-drop.

Is all of your life this hard?

But then you have other
problems, don’t you Eric… Genetic ones!

Heh. Struck a nerve, did I?
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Ryadia_
Oct 3, 2004
Eric Gill wrote:

Ryadia wrote in
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Eric Gill wrote:

Heh. Struck a nerve, did I?

Some people are just a constant reminder of why contraception is so important.
EG
Eric Gill
Oct 3, 2004
Ryadia wrote in berlin.de:

Eric Gill wrote:

Ryadia wrote in
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Eric Gill wrote:

Heh. Struck a nerve, did I?

Some people are just a constant reminder of why contraception is so important.

Indeed. Your parents must be proud that you cannot handle so simple a concept as drag-n-drop, then make a complete ass of yourself compensating for the shortcomings in public.

Heh.

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