Order of Doing Enhancements

mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
edited July 3, 2006 in Technique
Well, looks like Mr. JPG is shooting a lot more RAW. :-O I want to make sure I'm doing things in the right order to insure the best images. I know that some adjustments work best when done before or after other adjustments.

1) Make adjustments in ACR.
2) Evaluate noise and remove with Noise Ninja, if necessary
3) Evaluate shadow detail and adjust in Photoshop, if necessary
4) Evaluate any curves adjustments and apply
5) Apply the appropriate sharpening for the particular photo
6) Add any text layers
7) Save

Thanks for the guidance.
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2006
    1. ACR (usually changing WB)
    2. Noise Ninja if needed.
    3. Curve work if needed.
    4. Sharpen with Pixel Genius
    5. Increase color saturation if pic is shot using high iso
    7. Shadow/highlight if needed.
    6. Contrast increase if needed

    7. If converting to Black and White, desaturate or use channel mixer in monochrome depending on the pic's colors
    8. More contrast work

    9. Convert to 8 bit
    10. add photo info and copyright
    11. safe as a tiff using lzw compression
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