ELFritzen
March 12th, 2006, 09:08 AM
I just received and installed Elements 4 on my iMac and so far I'm very pleased. In Elements 4, for the Mac, the File Browser has been replaced with a separate program called Bridge which allows one view your photos in a number of ways including a slide show before editing them in Elements. The first time I did this I was somewhat disappointed in the quality of the pictures. They were all very soft, and almost appeared out of focus. I chose a second group of pictures, taken well over a year ago, and they looked great. The only difference was the first group of pictures were tiffs while the older ones were jpg's. The tiffs were converted from RAW files after making the standard RAW adjustments, but were not sharpened. I now realize that RAW images are not sharpened and from what I've read, one shouldn't Sharpen in ACR. My work flow has been to shoot RAW, download the photos, make the adjustements in ACR then save as tiffs. I would then do additional editing from these tiff files. So my question is, how do you do a fair evaluation of your shots either as RAW files or tiffs while using Bridge or any other file organizer? One can't be sure if the shot is just unsharpened or if there was a more serious focus or blurring problem. Or do you only evaluate things like composition etc and ignore sharpness at this point? Sorry for the length of this post. Thanks!