Canon RAW in Paint shop pro 8

[wolfie]

Originally Posted by Gidders

While I don't have it, I thought that Lightroom had healing & cloning tools. I've just looked at the Adobe website and in an article about how Lightroom, CS2 and Camera RAW work together there was this comment "As of version 3.7, Adobe Camera Raw cannot make further adjustments to enhancements made with settings or tools that are exclusive to Lightroom. These include Recovery, Fill Light, Vibrance, HSL, Grayscale, Clone/Heal, and Red Eye Reduction." which seems to suggest that it does.

Gidders is correct Lightroom does in fact incorporate a clone & healing brush, but they're a bit of a pain to use, and at £150, it's expensive.

Also it will not read Canon Raw files direct from your flashcard. you will need to load your files onto your H/drive first.
There is an option to import direct from your f/card but you have to accept that Lightroom will first convert your files to DNG.

Rawshooter Essentials is still available as freeware and this will read your Canon raw files, which you could then export direct into PSP.

Originally Posted by Don Hoey

PSP8 reads a 16 bit tif ok but converts it to 8 bit on saving.

I use the clone brush in PSP8 as I find for spotting it is a lot more accurate and controlable than in CS ( that will give CS guru's a laugh ) , hence I recognise that PSP8 uses 8 bit.


Don

The clone brush+pencil (stamp) in DPP is also extremely accurate. I THINK that if you use the direct transfer to CS2 the cloning comes up in its own layer, likewise if you have used any filters they would. This is not available for PSE4, needs someone with CS2 to confirm, but I do know that if you open a saved 16bit .tif in GraphicConverter (mac), it warns you it is a 'multipage' file and opens it without the filter etc as it does not have a layer facility.

For a canon user DPP seems the logical 1st stage for RAW/CR2.

[Vernon Barker]

Thank you daedal.
Downloaded the Canon software as suggested and it works just fine after I found out that Canon call it the "stamp tool"