Friday, January 23, 2004

Adobe Photoshop CS has at least five features that make it a worthwhile upgrade for panoramic photographers, imho. The integrated digital camera RAW file import filter, the improved 16 bit support, the integrated stitcher, the highlight/shadow recovery, but most of all, the "Adjust color to match" feature. I sometimes get one or two images out of a set of 12 which has vastly different tonality than the rest. Sometimes it because of changing sunlight or different types of lighting across the scene, sometimes because the scanner software loses its tiny mind, or sometimes because of having changed exposure mid-pan. So now you can recover from those situations with the "Image->Adjust->Match Color" command and make one image match the color gamut of another. One feature not mentioned in the glossy brochures is the censoring of certain content . If you try to open an image or scan of money, Photoshop refuses and gives you a warning about the illegality of what you might be trying to do. This has turned out to be quite controversial amongst some of Adobe's customers. First, because Adobe did not inform customers of the cendoring feature; and there are legitimate reasons for people to be working with images of bills; for instance this happens quite often with ads. 6:30:01 AM

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