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Epic-X stills in Photoshop

Yeah ... not supporting RAW .r3d in Photoshop really limits the credibility of the RED as a stills system for most photographers.

Might as well add Lightroom and Adobe Bridge to that list.

That said ... the first step in Photoshop when I import .CRAW2 files from my 7D is to "develop" them in a built in utility, then I export them into an RGB format for working in Photoshop.

So, read what I wrote again ... not having direct Photoshop support for RAW .r3d hurts credibility.

It doesn't actually affect capability at all. It does hurt integration, because I have to step outside of Adobe's tightly knit ecosystem and use RedCineX to process my RAW data and export stills.

Wait ... You could use Premiere as the ingest and RAW processing tool ... I have to investigate that workflow, but that might make the integration argument moot. Not that I have any .r3d shot for use as stills around here, but I suppose I can use any old .r3d as a proof of workflow subject.
 
I believe Red said they were working on this. Adobe has been very supportive of r3d editing in Premiere so one would think the rest of the apps will follow.
 
Alexander Ibrahim said:
Yeah ... not supporting RAW .r3d in Photoshop really limits the credibility of the RED as a stills system for most photographers.
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Huh? The "credibility"?

Adobe is supporting RED, we all know that... It's up to them to add R3D snapshot support to Adobe Camera RAW. Soon, we can hope. Until then, the best is to export your stills as a 32bit TIFF from RC-X. The quality is amazing, give it a try.


It's coming...

We don't even have the "stills" modes enabled on the cameras just yet.
 
Alexander Ibrahim said:
Yeah ... not supporting RAW .r3d in Photoshop really limits the credibility of the RED as a stills system for most photographers.

Might as well add Lightroom and Adobe Bridge to that list.

That said ... the first step in Photoshop when I import .CRAW2 files from my 7D is to "develop" them in a built in utility, then I export them into an RGB format for working in Photoshop.

So, read what I wrote again ... not having direct Photoshop support for RAW .r3d hurts credibility.

It doesn't actually affect capability at all. It does hurt integration, because I have to step outside of Adobe's tightly knit ecosystem and use RedCineX to process my RAW data and export stills.
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For me it does affect the capability.
For many images, what I do is use ACR to set the parameters for the main image, hold Shift and choose Open as Object.
Then I duplicate the Object layer, and double-click on the new layer, which re-opens it in ACR allowing me to change parameters for other parts of the image.
I think this is a fairly normal workflow.
This would NOT be possible if having to go via RedCine or similar.


Thinking about it, having to go via RedCine to export a TIFF is rather like having to export R3D video to MPEG in order to edit it!
 
Antony M said:
what I do is use ACR to set the parameters for the main image, hold Shift and choose Open as Object.
Then I duplicate the Object layer, and double-click on the new layer, which re-opens it in ACR allowing me to change parameters for other parts of the image.
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Thanks for the tip!
 
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