adobe photoshop cs2 raw - please help

Which is a sub-directory in the plugins directory.

Dang, I have got to get some sleep.

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RayT

Theresa K said:

Agreed. I've told Carlos the same thing a number of times, he's
not paying attention!!!!

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it's a man/woman thing! ;^)

Jim Ford

Carloskbco said:

If you try to open the .orf file from Photoshop by clicking
File-open- it will not work...trust me

Carlos

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It works for me.

Louis,

Hear! Hear!

To me, composing the image, and capturing as much image info, is more important than "getting it totally right" with the shot. Adams was well known to sniff many development chemicals to get the final image he wanted. My cam is setup for min; sat, contrast and brite. I want ALL the info I can take home with me. PS is my artists' studio and I do my painting there.
Hope Ur day is going well.

Walter

I fail to see why people have a hard time installing the Camera RAW plugin. Seems many people have had issues.

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Go to: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS2\File Formats"

3. Rename the existing Camera Raw.8bi to Camera Raw.8bi.original or move it to your desktop. I simply rename it and things work fine.
4. Download this file:

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/3.x/Camera_Raw_3_4.zip

5. Unzip it and place the New Camera Raw.8bi into the 'File Formats' directory: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS2\File Formats"
6. Start Photoshop CS2 and open your .ORF files by any of the regular means.

Theresa K said:

RAW isn't a blanket permission to be a crappy photographer. RAW
will capture better detail and color and be more forgiving to
editing.

It's a shame there is so little concern around here for developing
skills instead of 'fix it in pp'.
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Theresa K
http://theresak.smugmug.com/

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The fact is, Theresa, that I often encounter scenes that have a lot of dynamic range. If I develop the RAW files with ACR, I have much more control over how the image will come out and can frequently minimize blown highlights/blocked shadows by using the ACR adustments to set black and white points -- and indeed, you can go very sophisticated global adjustments using the curves . Last I looked at Oly Studio, all I could do was to shift the entire exposure to lighter or darker (while you can affect the black and white points fiddling with the exposure and contrast sliders in Studio, it's a real kludge method because the sliders aren't delinked enough). It is simply STUPID of Oly to provide a RAW converter that can't take full advantage of the raw format.

This isn't a matter of developing skills. All the skills in the world can't change the dynamic range in a scene.

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ODM
OM1 to OM2n to OM4 to E-10 to E-20 to E500
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OldDigiman said:

Theresa K said:

RAW isn't a blanket permission to be a crappy photographer. RAW
will capture better detail and color and be more forgiving to
editing.

It's a shame there is so little concern around here for developing
skills instead of 'fix it in pp'.
--
Theresa K
http://theresak.smugmug.com/

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The fact is, Theresa, that I often encounter scenes that have a lot
of dynamic range. If I develop the RAW files with ACR, I have much
more control over how the image will come out and can frequently
minimize blown highlights/blocked shadows by using the ACR
adustments to set black and white points -- and indeed, you can go
very sophisticated global adjustments using the curves . Last I
looked at Oly Studio, all I could do was to shift the entire
exposure to lighter or darker (while you can affect the black and
white points fiddling with the exposure and contrast sliders in
Studio, it's a real kludge method because the sliders aren't
delinked enough). It is simply STUPID of Oly to provide a RAW
converter that can't take full advantage of the raw format.

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I will agree that the converter in Oly Studio is primitive, but it is a good place to start for newbies. I am talking about using the Photoshop plug-in from Olympus to get ACR to recognize the .orf files and convert them properly.

OldDigiman said:

This isn't a matter of developing skills. All the skills in the
world can't change the dynamic range in a scene.

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I understand that completely, but what I am reading more and more around here is 'who cares what camera settings you are using, just shoot RAW and recover it'. In my experience, it is much more time efficient to use your skill to shoot it as best you can, then tweak in pp rather than try to do a major overhaul.
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Theresa K
http://theresak.smugmug.com/

Thanks for all the help. Have it working. A special thanks to Adrenolin. Found that it didn't if you overwrite the original. You must rename it and paste the new one in its place.