brodie_geers wrote:
Yes, I've never used RAW but I was under the impression that it was, indeed similar. Maybe what would be nice would be to have the option to export a .raw (I guess that's the format?) file from Maxwell Render? That way you'd have the tools available in PS, just as if you were *gasp* taking a photo! What do you think about that, having used RAW? Should I throw that into the wishlists?
-Brodie
Hi Brodie,
Unfortunately RAW is just the term for "RAW sensordata", and canon for example has the end ".cr2", nikon has another.
To complicate everything, most sensors have different rgb pattern, the raw format is different even between cameras from the same manufacturer.
My Canon450D raw files (.cr2) could be opened by the AdobeBridge and CameraRaw that came with Photoshop CS3, but I had to upgrade to PS CS4 to open my Canon5DMkII raw files (also .cr2)
So the software (like adobe bridge's cameraraw) decodes the sensor rgb pattern and translates it to an image.
Technically, I think that MaxwellRender have the fileformats needed. Photoshop CS4 can open the 32bit tiff, hdr and exr, but I have to convert to 16bit if I want do manual curves-whitebalancing.
And 16bit tif can be directly opened by bridge's cameraraw for the simple whitebalance "greypoint" sampler
(I'm not sure but I think that CameraRaw5.7 is an integrated part of the AdobeBridge....? I cant find a way to start it outside bridge)
Now..does anyone here use PhotoshopCS5 ? Is it able to do more with 32bit images than CS4? (like curves?)
Note:
Primary reason I love Bridge+CameraRaw is that if I have adjusted 1 photo(or render), whitebalance, vibrance, devignetting, defringe etc, and have 50 photos taken in the same light, I can select them all and synchronize the adjustments to the rest of the pics. Then batch convert them all into for example jpg's. Something I learned from the book I mentioned...before that I was annoyed that the Photoshop installation included Bridge, I thought it was only a browser
