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 by Steffen on Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:24 am
Hi all, with version 2 of Aperture (which is what I'm using for organising and processing photos) a new RAW decoder was introduced. To say it briefly, I'm very impressed. It is a tremendous improvement over the previous version. Besides additional controls it has much better control over highlights and noise than what Aperture 1.5 used to have. Where I used to get nasty posterisation or colours when trying to recover highlights there is much more real image content now, and a very pleasing rendition. Likewise, boosting too dark areas back into life doesn't easily result in a noisy mess anymore. Apart from the extremes, tonal rendition has changed, as far as I can tell to better, esp with skin tones. A lot of washed out images from version 1.5 now come to life by simply selecting the new RAW processor. Anyway, this sent me into a PP frenzy and I looked through a lot of older pics, especially those I had technical trouble with. Here's one from an oh so long ago Harbour Walk, that was taken in very harsh, direct sunlight (and I was too lazy to bring a flash). I managed to get much better control over highlights and shadows out of this now, and the tones look quite pleasing to me. What do you think?  Cheers Steffen. lust for comfort suffocates the soul
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by Bindii on Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:40 am
Steffen wrote:I managed to get much better control over highlights and shadows out of this now, and the tones look quite pleasing to me. What do you think?
Cheers
Steffen.
The tones and colours are great... I'll have to look into this myself I think.. thanks for the info..  The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list... 
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by surenj on Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:30 pm
skin tones look good.
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