Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We are apparently work flow twins. :-)
>>
>
> Great minds on the same trajectory, clearly!
>
> Do you do much batch processing then?
>
Almost none on DSLR images. My typical batch of images from a day cover
such a broad range of subjects and light that batching doesn't seem very
useful. If I have a number that are similar, I will use "Last
Conversion" in ACR, which will often be right and save time. I suppose I
mgiht try Bridge again some day, as that might make batching more
useful. Last time I tried it, at least a couple of versions ago, it was
slow, kludgy and a resource hog. That's why I looked around and found
FastStone, which I quite like.
I do do batch processing of RAW images from the A650. The RAW images
generated by the CHDK add-on firmware aren't recognized by many RAW
converters, including ACR. Dcraw, FastStone and RawTherapee will all
process them in batch. RawTherapee will do full individual GUI
processing, but is as yet too slow and odd (LR like interface) for me.
FastStone doesn't have highlight recovery in RAW conversion.
Oh, I almost forgot, RT won't write out 16 bit TIFFs from these RAW
files. They have no EXIF header, so RT believes they have no color
profile and won't convert them, or some such thing. A logic glitch in
programming, I think. If I really liked it otherwise, I'd probably be
bugging the developer. As it is ...
So I batch process each day's worth with my defaults using dcraw. Then
as I work through the TIFFs, I may run into some that need different
settings for conversion. With a bunch of bat files for different
settings in the Send To folder, rerunning one or several that need it is
a snap.
If I have several images that will need much the same treatment in PS,
I'll do the first one while recording a temporary Action. I can then
edit out the missteps and backtracking and use it on subsequent images.
I just did a lot of this on a particular group of images needing
extensive, one might say radical, processing
Moose
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