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Old 13-02-06, 08:18
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Originally Posted by Gidders
Duncan

While I'm a strong advocate of RAW, you'ld be surprised how much you can pull out of that jpg. I've applied a fairly severe shadow/highlights adjustment (I think this is only available in CS2), then to further bring out the shadow detail, I duplicated the layer, set the blend mode to soft light and then applied filter/other/ high pass and then flatterned the image to get this)
Hi there.
You've done quite a job there. I posted the jpeg just for comparison to show how the scene looked through the viewfinder, to give an example of the amount of "hidden" information that can be extracted.

Your P-P skills are far greater than mine, I would never have thought of doing all the steps you did to extract the detail from the jpeg. In this particular case, the raw processing time overhead was far less. I just loaded the raw file into ACR and checked the "auto" tick boxes on everything.

Duncan.
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