Comments on: RAW Creativity

By: totwotoo

totwotoo — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:20:45 +0000

First, to Photoguy and Alessandor Casagli: I would like to know how you would do it. Critics are those that do not do’ as movie reviewers. Mentors, on the others hand, can do.
Second, I learned some things, which makes this tutorial beneficial. Thank you you posting it.

By: gerome

gerome — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:23:39 +0000

Your remark: Most articles on the RAW digital photo format will most likely be about how crazy you are not to be capturing your images in RAW format if your camera supports it. While I do tend to agree, there is more to RAW than just converting images to other file formats.

Just a little off base. Maybe good for hobbyists who have a lot of spare time on their hands. Most professionals I’ve looked up will say you’re crazy to shoot in raw, except for one or two special images you want to tweak. For assignments, weddings etc., shoot in JPEG. They make well over $100,000 annually in their business and what they say is: I don’t have the time to spend countless hours fooling around with adjusting photos shot in RAW then converting to JPEG when shooting in JPEG in the first place does the job I need. Time is money, and shooting in RAW wastes my time in post processing.

By: Heath C

Heath C — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:05:35 +0000

I like the result, who cares if it looks fake, we can all tell it is overdone but that is the whole point. Thanks for the method.

By: JotaSolano

JotaSolano — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:39:05 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial. Even if this is not the kind of effect that I would ideally want to achieve, it’s quite representative of the power of ACR and Raw; i guess the final idea is to take those pictures that can be improved and use ACR a little so that it looks good, but not fake.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:20:51 +0000

I just ignore the ones who make rude comments

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:27:01 +0000

I’m actually turned off by the jerks who spoke their opinions so rudely. If you’re going to speak your opinion, do so politely and don’t be such an ass.The guy was just showing a technique that some people like. Just because you’re a stuck up photographer doesn’t mean that you have to bash on something that other people like. If you don’t like it, don’t bother reading and stop wasting time making other people feel bad. Grow up.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:00:32 +0000

Good tutorial. Nice effect… def. not for every picture, but fun to play around with.

Sorry, I saw this and had to laugh:

“It is a Noun so starts with a capital, it is not an acronym so should not be referenced as RAW.”

Book is a noun too, but I don’t capatilize it unless it’s at the start of a sentence… weird. Also, ‘Noun’ shouldn’t be capitalized either.

I’m only being critical to the critics. I’m sure the author of this tutorial doesn’t use this technique for every photo that he edits. Who knows, maybe this has a place in his, or someone elses, world of photography.

Thanks for taking the time to share!

Chris

By: steve

steve — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:42:36 +0000

sorry, Raw! and i agree, this definitely isn’t for everyone but it can only help create a better understanding of post processing, it’s certainly doing so for me. and i guess it’s up to you what you do with it after all.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:34:09 +0000

i have CS2 at home and CS3 at work. CS2 doesn’t have the same range of controls within camera RAW such as ‘fill light’ and ‘clarity’. is it possible to download the later versions of camera RAW for CS2 which will have these?

great tutorial though.

cheers.

By: Liz Ness

Liz Ness — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:52:07 +0000

D’oh… that was “an” impact not “and” impact… These fingers have a mind of their own!