Avotius
Some guy
Why do I bother to shoot photos with my own settings when camera raw and adobe bridge will just screw them all up?
I have searched for how to disable the damn auto adjustment thing in Bridge and camera raw but all I can find is how to do it in cs2 and bridge 1.0. Im using Bridge CS3. Anyone can help? Also if you know a "revert to the way I took the damn photo" button or something in there, that would be helpful too.
Im sure someone at adobe added this feature in to sabotage their efforts to be king of raw conversion. Maybe a spy or something, because I cant think of anyone who would bother to shoot raw that would want camera raw to go and screw with the image.
I have searched for how to disable the damn auto adjustment thing in Bridge and camera raw but all I can find is how to do it in cs2 and bridge 1.0. Im using Bridge CS3. Anyone can help? Also if you know a "revert to the way I took the damn photo" button or something in there, that would be helpful too.
Im sure someone at adobe added this feature in to sabotage their efforts to be king of raw conversion. Maybe a spy or something, because I cant think of anyone who would bother to shoot raw that would want camera raw to go and screw with the image.
nksyoon
Well-known
In Adobe Camera Raw set all sliders to the settings you want, then save those settings as default. I don't have CS3 on this computer, but the "save as default settings" option in ACR shouldn't be too difficult to find.
Avotius
Some guy
You would think it should be rather easy to find right? It isnt. The old camera raw had check boxes that said auto, the new camera raw doesnt. On top of that, one image sliders settings dont work right for another image because you always want to change it. All I want it the image to open the way I took it so I can start from there. Maybe its time I found a new raw converter since cs2 wont covert photos from the 5D
nksyoon
Well-known
What "settings" are you referring to in your original post? If you're shooting raw, there are no settings in camera.
For the most linear conversion, set all the sliders to "0", that should be as truthful to the raw file as a converter can be. Then adjust each file to your liking.
If you're using a Canon 5D, set your jpgs to the picture style you like best. Then use Canon's DPP raw converter...it will read your "Picture Style" settings and set the raw conversion accordingly. You can of course modify this as you like.
CS2 can open the 5D raw files...you need to find the most recent ACR update before CS3. Have a look here.
For the most linear conversion, set all the sliders to "0", that should be as truthful to the raw file as a converter can be. Then adjust each file to your liking.
If you're using a Canon 5D, set your jpgs to the picture style you like best. Then use Canon's DPP raw converter...it will read your "Picture Style" settings and set the raw conversion accordingly. You can of course modify this as you like.
CS2 can open the 5D raw files...you need to find the most recent ACR update before CS3. Have a look here.
Avotius
Some guy
nksyoon said:
Of course there are settings, I set the exposure and contrast and what not in camera so i can get a better idea of what I want outside of the camera. The biggest problem is that the converter is changing saturation, brightness and contrast by itself. Luckily DPP doesn't but that is a lousy program. The biggest reason I need the photo the way I took it is because the mood and everything is in the way I shot the photo, if the program modifies it as it wishes then a lot of that is lost as I try to remember how I shot then start over from scratch.
Maybe its time to give some other raw converters a try