Reply #9: More fun with Camera RAW... [View All]

[regnaD kciN]

I went back and converted some of the other shots from that trip. For example, here's the old version of the falls by the bridge, which I already posted here:



As you can probably guess, this was heavily tweaked in Photoshop to get any detail in the water and make the bridge visible at all. The result looked, to me, quite artificial -- in particular, the bridge itself looks overexposed and washed-out.

I went back to the original NEF file and used CS2's RAW loader. The result was an image that needed a lot less Photoshopping and is a far closer representation of the actual location:



So far, I'm extremely impressed with the results (to put it mildly). I think, from now on, I'm going to forego Nikon's automatic JPEG converter and use Photoshop to convert each image myself.