Options are good, and we have two excellent ones here.ĭerrick- great posts and podcast on the S90 info, especially anchoring it to the LX-3 and DLux4.This was confusing to me at first.
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But for certain images, I won't hesitate to open them up in Digital Photo Professional to see how Canon renders the file. Compare either to the preview in Bridge, and you'll see just how excellent they both are.įor my own work, I'll probably use ACR 5.6 or Lightroom 2.6 most of the time for the Canon S90. I give the initial processing nod to DPP, but have better tools for adjustment in ACR. I like the interpretations by both DPP and ACR. I then took a high resolution, 100 percent, screenshot of each of the processed previews. I tried to add the same amount of sharpening in ACR that DPP automatically adds, but didn't make any other adjustments in either application. I used the "Standard" profile for DPP, and the "Camera Standard" profile in ACR. You'll notice that ACR does interpret the file differently than DPP. You can see bigger versions of all three images on the Digital Story Flickr page. Wow! I expected DPP to do that (left), but was crossing my fingers that ACR was up to the task as well. But when I opened the picture in ACR 5.6 RC (right), you can see that much of the distortion was corrected. There was quite a bit of distortion as you can see in the uncorrected version that I previewed in Bridge (middle). I've included an S90 shot here that was captured at the wide end of the lens (7.5 mm, or about 35mm in standard terms). How would the Adobe ACR 5.6 Release Candidate stack up?Īs it turns out, quite well. I had already processed Raw files using Canon's own Digital Photo Professional, and the images shaped up nicely. In the case of the S90, it also has to correct for distortion and handle other important aspects of making the picture look good. (Click to enlarge).īut Raw processing often includes more than just getting the exposure and color right.
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You can see full size versions on the Digital Story Flickr page. The Bridge preview (middle) shows just how much work the two processors do before you ever move a slider. I like using the Bridge/ACR workflow for quick turnaround jobs, and being able to bring the S90 into that flow is terrific news.Ĭomparison of an S90 raw file processed in Canon's Digital Photo Professional (left) and ACR 5.6 RC (right). I was thrilled to see that Adobe has released Adobe Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 Release Candidates that supports 19 new Raw profiles, including for the Canon PowerShot S90. Raw processing: it's harder than it looks.