What’s the use of opening JPGs in ACR?

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Serge_I_Skysi
May 10, 2007
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Just wondering why CS3 has this option.
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babaloo
May 10, 2007
I’m just wondering how to get it to work.
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John Joslin
May 10, 2007
It offers most of the corrections you will need* in one dialog and preserves the original file from the camera.

*and offers some not available in that form in Photoshop itself.
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Robert_Barnett
May 10, 2007
Also, I think it makes adjusting your images easier as it takes a lot of the guess work out of it. For example if you need to tone down the saturation or increase the saturation of an image there are so many ways to do this in Photoshop that for a novice or intermediate person it can get confusing add in that some methods are better than others.

I like the fact that there is basically one or two things that allow you to adjust any image image adjustment need. Add in the non-destructive nature of ACR and Lightroom and I think it is a good thing. However, it is up to each person to decide if they want to do it this way. One thing Adobe and Photoshop have always done is given you multiple ways of doing something.

Robert
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Serge_I_Skysi
May 11, 2007
I agree that it takes some of the guesswork out, but how can ACr do a non-distructive job on a jpeg if a jpeg is an already ‘finished’ file as oposed to a RAW file which is not?
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Christine_Krof_Shock
May 11, 2007
If you open an image in ACR you always have the ability to convert it to a smart object by holding down the shift key when you click Open Image..you will see the button change to open option…then the jpg comes into Photoshop as a smart object that you can edit at a later date…I love RAW!!!
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Robert_Barnett
May 11, 2007
Because it just stores the changes you made to the image in the image as meta-data. Simple thing to do. Same with TIFF and DNG.

You do loose a bit of flexibility for example you don’t have the same white balance presets with JPG’s and TIFFs. Also, of course the image is already degraded because it was compressed by the camera or whatever made the JPG (not an issue with TIFFs). You also don’t get the power of RAW (being able to restore highlights and expanding shadows). But, you have 99% of the controls and they work quite well.

Robert
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Serge_I_Skysi
May 11, 2007
Interesting. Thanks for the info, Christine.
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If you open an image in ACR you always have the ability to convert it to a smart object by holding down the shift key when you click Open Image..you will see the button change to open option…then the jpg comes into Photoshop as a smart object that you can edit at a later date…I love RAW!!!
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Serge_I_Skysi
May 11, 2007
Thanks for your input, Robert. I’ll give it a try.
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Jim
May 26, 2007
On 11/May/2007 9:19 AM, wrote:
Thanks for your input, Robert. I’ll give it a try.

I guess this only works with CS3?

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