Thanks fior info, I have experimented using olympus software, gimp,
photoshop 7 and now lightroom, and raw developer, but what I am after is
a technique to combine the outut from developing a raw image, once for
the sky and the other for the shadow detail and just add then together,
without paying for CS. you are right though, I am just trying to cheat
and should put more time and effort into it.
Moose wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> ........a cataloguing application like iView. ....will provide much more
>> control over images than iView; in addition they each provide you with a
>> better indication of what is going on.....
>>
> Ian, I didn't know what iView is. I see now from what Chris said and
> from looking at it on the web that it is a viewing and cataloging app.
> It is no wonder that it doesn't provide the functionality needed for
> highlight recovery from RAW files.
>
> Now I've looked back and see you have been using iView because it's
> faster than your alternatives. Perhaps there is a price to pay for the
> speed? ;-)
>
> Try the Oly software (I don't remember which is which.) or download Raw
> Shooter Essentials 2006, which will do what you need. It's free. Only
> for Windoze, but you run that now on your new Mac, don't you? iView may
> be fine for most shots, if you only need JPEG and the algorithms that
> reduce the RAW dynamic range to 8 bit give you good results. But it
> appears that if you want to deal with things like highlight and shadow
> detail that are lost or over compressed in the simplified app., you need
> to use a better tool for such shots.
>
> Moose
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