Red Highlights

[Dumien]

SilkyPix Development Studio Ver 3.0.25.1 - Default Settings

This one looks kind of purple on my monitor, or not really red, whatever color that may be.

ACR 4.4 with ACR4.4 selected as the camera profile. Default Settings

This one is the one I prefer, it's very nice, thanks

Picasa from Google - Go figure, I like the way it rendered the 450D RAW!

As much as I think it's weird that PIcasa did something like that, I think it's pretty good, but not as good as the ACR one...





still, my monitor sucks, i guess ... lol


thanks again,


Andy

[Chuck Lee]

Yea, I had a sneaky suspicion ACR was the one. I sort of expected that after seeing the Picasa version. Your right, the SilkyPix default was heavy on the magenta. The first thing I would have done was back that off. SP has a tendency to use a fairly heavy color deflection when dealing with Canon raws. It is usally toward the magenta side. But, that's OK, I think I would have gotten it close just processing it the way I do most of my shots. I am always curious to know how the "default" renders. I forgot to add that Irfanview can also be used to convert CR2 files for those that like free stuff.


I didn't know what I was missing until I bought the HP2275w. Unfortunately, it's defaults are way over the top and it needed to be adjusted. That's a whole other story. I'm sorry you have a "sucky" monitor. If you decide to upgrade, do good research. The LCD stuff today is very tricky.


Thanks Andy, Great thread!


Daniel,


I had a "Duh!!" at 7:00AM today. The 2.3 ev headroom you were taking about was extra usable space in the raw histogram. No data was there, so there wasn't any reason to see clipped red highlights. Got it!! That's why I commented to Colin about pulling down 1-2 EV of blown highlight data when using RAW. It all came together with that first cup of coffee. Sorry bout that Daniel. I'm denser some days than others.


Chuck