I must be expressing myself badly as well. When using Bridge I also
have an instant preview of my raw files and, although I create a
separate folder for converted raw files that is simply my own way of
working. It is not required. If you try to load a raw file directly
into PhotoShop it will first pass through ACR along with its sidecar
file if it had been previously worked on. It will pause in ACR in case
you want to do further editing and you then tell it to pass the
in-memory image on to PhotoShop. No intermediate, converted file is
saved unless you want it saved.
FastStone or Breezebrower behavior depends on what you give them to work
with. Canon raw files always contain a small JPEG that represents the
shot as taken and the browser will pull that JPEG if large enough for
the type of preview you're requesting. If not large enough they will
convert the raw files on the fly which can be pretty slow. AFAIK, ORF
files do not contain an embedded JPEG like Canon raw files so I have
taken to including a small JPEG along with the raw file. That way if I
use FastStone or BreezeBrowser I'll get a fast preview of the original
shot. It's not clear to me whether Bridge uses the small JPEG I provide
or not. The small JPEG, of course, represents the camera's view of the
shot and not ACR's version of same.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/5/2014 1:40 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
Chuck
Sorry to have expressed myself badly, but I knew all those things.
The point that I was trying to make was that the previews are all
available in your application's browser as soon as the image files
are imported (virtually imported, the files can remain in their
locations). The advantages of LR/Aperture are that you then have an
instant view of your previews, effectively converted Raw files (or
any other fomat, of course). It removes the need for a separate
place for the converted files.
And you can batch process in LR/Aperture as well, applying individual
adjustments to groups of shots, together or singly.
Finally, Develop (Adjustments in Aperture) is merely a place to
effect the changes that you might want to the converted file, using
the preview to illustrate those changes.
Chris
On 4 Jul 14, at 22:37, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I think you must have a distorted view of how PS and ACR handle
images. ACR is certainly the engine for doing all of the
"developing" work that you've described but ACR does not modify
original raw files... ever. It creates a side-car file for each
raw file it works on which describes the modifications that have
been done. The original raw file is never modified.
snip
I should also note that, in my own personal work process, a
"converted" file is simply a conversion from raw to some output
format whose only changes are those that can be done by ACR.
"Retouching" is the next process and that consists of things that
PhotoShop can do but ACR can't. If it requires a mask ACR can't do
it.
I almost forgot. Bridge or FastStone or BreezeBrowser (or similar)
is the means of browsing and selecting multiple images to be passed
to ACR or PhotoShop.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|