04-01-2008, 12:18 AM
I did a Senior Picture photo shoot and the subject had extremely bad acne. On a referral I used the trial of the product and it seemed to work well. I'm using a Canon 5d (12.8Mpx) and Photoshop CS3 for a number of years with no issues. I purchased PP Max and ran it through the paces and have a number of issues.
1. I edit the photograph from dng in CS3 as necessary, then save in .RAW format. When I try to open the file in PP I get a file corrupt error message. However I can open the .raw file in CS3. As I HAVE to use lossless (or no) compressions that leaves me only with TIFF uncompressed to export to for use in PP which is less than ideal (see 2nd issue.) I can open the unedited from camera .dng file, but not the .raw. The package clearly stated that it works with RAW images, so I must be missing something.
2. This is an much more serious issue. I open a .dng (from the 5d) in PP and have no pixelization. As soon as I edit the photo I immediately see pixelization (especially in areas I have blown out and other subtle gradiants.) When I save the picture out (in TIFF uncompressed) the pixelization is in the picture. As most of my pictures (thousands) are often blown up to 8x10 or larger the pixelization is horribly noticeable to the point I cannot sell them. (For reference I can open the .dng in CS3 and modify far far beyond logical limits with no issues.)
I have seen this issue before outside of PP, but was related to image compression of the files. Since I am using native .dng and saving to uncompressed tiff I should have no issue with this, but I do.
Is there image compression settings I am missing, or are the algorithms being ran of the images messing the image data up (as it appears.)
3. Oh yes, when editing .dng (or any other large file) about 1/3 of the time the program closes with a fatal exception after heavy editing (fully updated XP). I have never had any issues with any other app (CS3 + Bridge and often 3 or 4 others at the same time) on my system crashing out. Is this a known issue?
1. I edit the photograph from dng in CS3 as necessary, then save in .RAW format. When I try to open the file in PP I get a file corrupt error message. However I can open the .raw file in CS3. As I HAVE to use lossless (or no) compressions that leaves me only with TIFF uncompressed to export to for use in PP which is less than ideal (see 2nd issue.) I can open the unedited from camera .dng file, but not the .raw. The package clearly stated that it works with RAW images, so I must be missing something.
2. This is an much more serious issue. I open a .dng (from the 5d) in PP and have no pixelization. As soon as I edit the photo I immediately see pixelization (especially in areas I have blown out and other subtle gradiants.) When I save the picture out (in TIFF uncompressed) the pixelization is in the picture. As most of my pictures (thousands) are often blown up to 8x10 or larger the pixelization is horribly noticeable to the point I cannot sell them. (For reference I can open the .dng in CS3 and modify far far beyond logical limits with no issues.)
I have seen this issue before outside of PP, but was related to image compression of the files. Since I am using native .dng and saving to uncompressed tiff I should have no issue with this, but I do.
Is there image compression settings I am missing, or are the algorithms being ran of the images messing the image data up (as it appears.)
3. Oh yes, when editing .dng (or any other large file) about 1/3 of the time the program closes with a fatal exception after heavy editing (fully updated XP). I have never had any issues with any other app (CS3 + Bridge and often 3 or 4 others at the same time) on my system crashing out. Is this a known issue?