CW2 - save/see choices
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:23 am
I like the new CW2 - thanks Harold. There's a couple of comments and one thing I'd like to see. Firstly, while I like what CW2 does, I'm worried that I can't as easily see the effects of what I'm doing compared with my normal workflow in PS. For example, to add a stop or so in PS I'll blend a luminence-based selection. I know exactly what is happening and where by doing this, firstly because I know what the blend mode is doing and secondly because I have an adjustment layer (and mask) I can play with later, altering opacity etc. I see there's EV change in CW2 and lots I can play with but I have little idea of exactly what it is doing to what pixels based on my choices of exposure fix type, sensitivity etc. Oh, I can see the coarse results in the picture but it's much harder when looking at the pixel level.
What I would like to do is put more of CW in my workflow, rather than just trying to fix a simple colour cast. What would pursuade me greatly would be to have the various results reflected on (something like) adjustment layer(s) so I could tweak them later.
In line with this, and very important, is that I would like to be able to come back and make slight changes/fixes later. I typically save a PSD with multiple layers and can come back later and know exactly what's happening with that image. With CW, FB and other filters (e.g. NeatImage, FocusMagic), per-image details aren't kept so all I have is the pre-CW image (hopefully saved) and the post-CW image. I don't know what CW settings were used. The best would be to have these associated with an adjustment layer when returning to PS. I don't need to see the settings outside of CW, just so when I edit the PSD I can return to CW with the settings I used for that file and make some changes from those settings - not from default or the last time I used CW. if it's not possible to do this, can CW/FB work like Capture One and save the settings for the image to a separate file easily, and look for those settings the next time it is started with that image? The latter is nowhere near as good, but is a possible stopgap.
Robert
What I would like to do is put more of CW in my workflow, rather than just trying to fix a simple colour cast. What would pursuade me greatly would be to have the various results reflected on (something like) adjustment layer(s) so I could tweak them later.
In line with this, and very important, is that I would like to be able to come back and make slight changes/fixes later. I typically save a PSD with multiple layers and can come back later and know exactly what's happening with that image. With CW, FB and other filters (e.g. NeatImage, FocusMagic), per-image details aren't kept so all I have is the pre-CW image (hopefully saved) and the post-CW image. I don't know what CW settings were used. The best would be to have these associated with an adjustment layer when returning to PS. I don't need to see the settings outside of CW, just so when I edit the PSD I can return to CW with the settings I used for that file and make some changes from those settings - not from default or the last time I used CW. if it's not possible to do this, can CW/FB work like Capture One and save the settings for the image to a separate file easily, and look for those settings the next time it is started with that image? The latter is nowhere near as good, but is a possible stopgap.
Robert