fgrule
August 12th, 2005, 02:47 PM
look so awful?When I open a Raw image in the ACR window,or open a jpg in Elements 3.0 Editor,the image stinks.Colors are splotchy,hard to interpret,and look totally different from the jpg viewed in Windows picture and fax Viewer.
I'm probably not explaining it well.It's not like a color cast.It's more that the image in the RAW editor or the PSE3.0 Editor is a VERY poor image.I was looking at a portrait of my wife.Her skin-tones were a wreck.Where I see a nice,smooth transition in Windows Viewer,Elements is rough.There are irregular,grainy blotches of color.
For example,where her normal skin tone changes to a slightly more reddish tone,in PSE it is abrupt(not a smooth transition),It is grainy and blotchy(looks like a rash, with visible borders).It's not an overall "dull" or "flat" look like an unprocessed RAW can be,but has areas of blotchy,but well saturated colors.It just looks like an image taken with a VERY,VERY inferior camera.When I have adjusted the image and "saved" it,the image in Window's Viewer looks great.But the poor images in PSE make it difficult to tell what I'll get after PP.(I've done Adobe gamma on the monitor).Did that make sense?
Am I doing something wrong?Are there Raw editors that display a better image than ACR?(I'd guess WYSIWYG with images in PSE3 Editor's viewer unless I use a different PP program).Thanks for any help!
I'm probably not explaining it well.It's not like a color cast.It's more that the image in the RAW editor or the PSE3.0 Editor is a VERY poor image.I was looking at a portrait of my wife.Her skin-tones were a wreck.Where I see a nice,smooth transition in Windows Viewer,Elements is rough.There are irregular,grainy blotches of color.
For example,where her normal skin tone changes to a slightly more reddish tone,in PSE it is abrupt(not a smooth transition),It is grainy and blotchy(looks like a rash, with visible borders).It's not an overall "dull" or "flat" look like an unprocessed RAW can be,but has areas of blotchy,but well saturated colors.It just looks like an image taken with a VERY,VERY inferior camera.When I have adjusted the image and "saved" it,the image in Window's Viewer looks great.But the poor images in PSE make it difficult to tell what I'll get after PP.(I've done Adobe gamma on the monitor).Did that make sense?
Am I doing something wrong?Are there Raw editors that display a better image than ACR?(I'd guess WYSIWYG with images in PSE3 Editor's viewer unless I use a different PP program).Thanks for any help!