Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware of the options. But I did notice
just today that CS5 was opening some JPEG images in PS as 8 bits. I
don't know why nor what I did to change its behavior except perhaps that
the source of those JPEGs was a CR2 file that had been processed in ACR.
Another real oddity in behavior change happened today which I think is
surely a simple bug. I was baffled for awhile when the text tool
appeared to stop typing text. The cursor would move and leave a row of
underscores behind (marking where the text was supposed to be). After
being totally baffled for about 15 minutes I finally realized that the
foreground color (which has always been black) had somehow been changed
to white and was writing invisible text on the white background.
Changing the color to black again resolved the mystery except the
mystery about how it got changed in the first place.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/29/2011 6:04 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 3/27/2011 1:36 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> When I have JPEG only images such as from my Samsung P&S I still run
>> them through ACR for adjustments affecting pixel brightness.
>
> I too generally do that, but perhaps for somewhat different reasons. I'd be
> perfectly happy to open the JPEGs directly
> in PS, click on the Action that converts to 16 bit, and work from there.
>
> However, the Exposure and Recovery sliders work differently than their
> apparent equivalents in PS. Recovery is
> especially useful with many of those JPEGs. And there is no direct Color Temp
> adjustment in PS.
>
> So although many Sammy images would be fine directly in PS, I tend to open
> them all through ACR
>
>> It automatically upconverts to 16 bits to help avoid editing ills. You
>> just have to remember to down-convert on the way out.
>
> Output bit depth is a setting. You can have it convert or not, as you choose.
> The same with output color space.
>
> You also have a choice whether the EXIF of the original JPEG is modified or
> not. Alt-Click on the Open Image button to
> avoid altering the original. I prefer to leave the original unaltered in any
> way, and save all my edits in a PSD file.
> Otherwise, the original JPEG will always want to open in ACR, even if I want
> to do something else with it later.
>
> Moose
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