Re: PHOTOFORUM digest 3623 D100 color balance

[Don Lintner <lintner@xxxxxxx>]

Here's another twist on workflow for getting good color balance while 
shooting RAW. I leave the camera set to a WB of flash, pull up all the 
raw files in Photoshop's file browser, pick one typical image for the 
shoot, tweak the image in Camera Raw until I'm happy and then apply 
those settings to the whole shoot with the file browser menu command. I 
then use a java script from Russell Brown - Dr. Brown's Image Processor 
- http://www.russellbrown.com/ that takes all the images in the folder 
or selected in file browser and converts them all to psd, jpg or tiff, 
or all three.

I used this method on a shoot for the catalog of a juried art show they 
do here. I shot about 134 pieces plus a gray card. Color balanced one 
raw file for the gray card, applied these setting to all the raw files 
and ran the script. No need to crop any of these - the person doing the 
layout did that - so none of the images were actually opened in 
Photoshop. The whole process from downloading the cards to burning the 
tiffs on CD for the designer probably took 15 to 20 minutes. Almost the 
speed of jpeg with all the control of raw.

The more I learn about the power of file browser in Photoshop, the more 
time it saves me.

Don

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Don Lintner
Graphics/Photo Program Manager
Instructional Technology Support
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
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Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000
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