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does the plug in work with photoshop 7? I have a fuji finepix S5500 and unable to use the raw setting as my fuji software does not allow any manual settings to the RAW file I just let camera do the work on auto. where did u get plug in for fuji RAw?

"DD" wrote in message

Completely new to RAW, (although I could have used it since I bought this Fuji FinePix s5000:-) I have takena few photos three hours ago.
http://finepix.95mb.com/hawe/index.html

The ‘before’ photo is the auto settings on CS2’s plug-in for raw. When clicking on the ‘Highlights’ button, red spots appeared on the sharp lights. This was basically an experiment.

I took Exposure from the original (auto) -1.45 to -4 (completely left) and contrast from the original 0 to -37.

The brightness should be between the two. While the before photo’s got a terrible cast, the after photo is too dark.

Is this the way to go about it?

Dave

DD wrote:

Completely new to RAW, (although I could have used it since I bought this Fuji FinePix s5000:-) I have takena few photos three hours ago.
http://finepix.95mb.com/hawe/index.html

The ‘before’ photo is the auto settings on CS2’s plug-in for raw. When clicking on the ‘Highlights’ button, red spots appeared on the sharp lights. This was basically an experiment.

I took Exposure from the original (auto) -1.45 to -4 (completely left) and contrast from the original 0 to -37.

The brightness should be between the two. While the before photo’s got a terrible cast, the after photo is too dark.

Is this the way to go about it?

Photos like this will always have a bit of blown-out highlights. The lamps are simply too strong compared to the rest of the picture. If a highlight is really blown, it will stay blown, no matter how much you lower the exposure. You could get it lower than 255 so that photoshop will no longer give you that red warning, but you still won’t have any detail (it just becomes darker, without detail). Don’t bother about it. The best correction for a night shot like this is to look at the dark parts, and make then JUST black. Something in between the two, if you ask me.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

"" wrote in message

does the plug in work with photoshop 7? I have a fuji finepix S5500 and unable to use the raw setting as my fuji software does not allow any manual settings to the RAW file I just let camera do the work on auto. where did u get plug in for fuji RAw?

I don’t think it works with PS7. Fuji S5500 does not appear to be listed in the downloadable Plug In for PS CS, but it certainly does work with that camera.

I agree that the Fuji Converter is crap, it is even worse than the Nikon Converter, but at least the Fuji is Standalone and does not mess up the Adobe Converter.

Roy G

Roy wrote:

"" wrote in message

does the plug in work with photoshop 7? I have a fuji finepix S5500 and unable to use the raw setting as my fuji software does not allow any manual settings to the RAW file I just let camera do the work on auto. where did u get plug in for fuji RAw?

I don’t think it works with PS7. Fuji S5500 does not appear to be listed in the downloadable Plug In for PS CS, but it certainly does work with that camera.

I agree that the Fuji Converter is crap, it is even worse than the Nikon Converter, but at least the Fuji is Standalone and does not mess up the Adobe Converter.

The Nikon converter doesn’t either. It only takes precedence over ACR. Remove it from the plugin folder and ACR is back.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:14:39 +0100, "" wrote:

does the plug in work with photoshop 7? I have a fuji finepix S5500 and unable to use the raw setting as my fuji software does not allow any manual settings to the RAW file I just let camera do the work on auto. where did u get plug in for fuji RAw?

using a default setting on CS2, Daz

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:23:22 +0200, (Johan W.
Elzenga) wrote:

DD wrote:

Completely new to RAW, (although I could have used it since I bought this Fuji FinePix s5000:-) I have takena few photos three hours ago.
http://finepix.95mb.com/hawe/index.html

The ‘before’ photo is the auto settings on CS2’s plug-in for raw. When clicking on the ‘Highlights’ button, red spots appeared on the sharp lights. This was basically an experiment.

I took Exposure from the original (auto) -1.45 to -4 (completely left) and contrast from the original 0 to -37.

The brightness should be between the two. While the before photo’s got a terrible cast, the after photo is too dark.

Is this the way to go about it?

Photos like this will always have a bit of blown-out highlights. The lamps are simply too strong compared to the rest of the picture. If a highlight is really blown, it will stay blown, no matter how much you lower the exposure. You could get it lower than 255 so that photoshop will no longer give you that red warning, but you still won’t have any detail (it just becomes darker, without detail). Don’t bother about it. The best correction for a night shot like this is to look at the dark parts, and make then JUST black. Something in between the two, if you ask me.

Thanks for what you said, Johan. Neither Curves or Levels can correct it, even when selecting only the sharpest lights. It should be like you said, something in between the two.
I’ll work on your suggestion for making the dark parts black and, won’t bother about it:-)

Dave

http://finepix.95mb.com/durbs/
http://finepix.95mb.com/wild/index.html

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:18:04 +0200, (Johan W.
Elzenga) wrote:

Roy wrote:

"" wrote in message

does the plug in work with photoshop 7? I have a fuji finepix S5500 and unable to use the raw setting as my fuji software does not allow any manual settings to the RAW file I just let camera do the work on auto. where did u get plug in for fuji RAw?

I don’t think it works with PS7. Fuji S5500 does not appear to be listed in the downloadable Plug In for PS CS, but it certainly does work with that camera.

I agree that the Fuji Converter is crap, it is even worse than the Nikon Converter, but at least the Fuji is Standalone and does not mess up the Adobe Converter.

The Nikon converter doesn’t either. It only takes precedence over ACR. Remove it from the plugin folder and ACR is back.

But it *shouldn’t* That’s lousy programming. It should, at the very least, give you the option on install.

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