A few Sooty Olive Variants...

[benlikestofish]

As I have the Sooty Olive to do for the lough swap, I've been messing around with a few different variants.

Hope you like













and finally not a straight forward Sooty but a Sarah Jessica Parker (SJP -Sooty Jay Peter!)



Images are getting better, but losing some image info and quality when converting from RAW into Tiff 16bit. Anyone know of any Raw CR2 plug-in for PhotoShop CS3?

Cheers
Ben

[hobble]

Dont know about ps3, quality pics, is the hook gold ? Or is that reflections from the materials or soap box, ?
Think you have cracked it totally as regards the lighting,

can you perform changes on your picture or file i should say "in camera" on your new camera ben?




Great wrappings mate

[weight_forward]

Cracking ties Ben, which one is making it to the swap? Pics look great to me.

Steve

[savage take]

LIKE THE SJP THE BEST.will need to get some picric jay.

[stevekale]

Originally Posted by benlikestofish

losing some image info and quality when converting from RAW into Tiff 16bit. Anyone know of any Raw CS2 plug-in for PhotoShop CS3?

Cheers
Ben

Not sure what you mean by this Ben. CS3 comes with one of the best raw converters available - Adobe Camera RAW. I think your issue is that you may need CS4 to process G11 files within CS. But the Canon software that came with your camera is also a very good RAW converter (albeit less user friendly). (Many pros prefer the Canon converter.) Just process the files in DPP and auto send them to CS3. But this is likely a conversation best had offline before Scratch gets all wound up.

[benlikestofish]

Originally Posted by hobble

Dont know about ps3, quality pics, is the hook gold ? Or is that reflections from the materials or soap box, ?
Think you have cracked it totally as regards the lighting,

can you perform changes on your picture or file i should say "in camera" on your new camera ben?




Great wrappings mate

Cheers Mate,

I tend to only make white balance adjustments in camera as the facilities I have with Canons RAW software is pretty good. Although it was late last night and the colour balance is a bit all over the place in the images. I think the gold is due to a touch of over saturation in post.

The Canon software is good, but I prefer Photoshop to finish the images, however I do not have PS extended so I have to import images as 16bit Tiff, and very often the sharpness in unpredictably changed.

Will have a dig around online and see if I can find a way to bring CR2 RAW files into Photoshop, apparently its standard on the new version CS4.


Thanks for the comments all,

haven't decided on swap fly, really going to take some effort to tie 15, but don't worry Bear I will spread them out in the evenings next week.

[A. Fluker]

S'pose I have to add these to my order now!

Cracking flies and well snapped.

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by stevekale

But this is likely a conversation best had offline before Scratch gets all wound up.

Cheeky b ugger! Why would I get wound up? Ben asked the question, and no doubt he understands WTF yer on about. Job done.

Nice work by the way Ben. Love the top one. I've got a similar pattern myself.. I used picric tippets for the tail though. Just love the red holo on sooty seals fur I twisted mine

[stevekale]

Originally Posted by benlikestofish

The Canon software is good, but I prefer Photoshop to finish the images, however I do not have PS extended so I have to import images as 16bit Tiff, and very often the sharpness in unpredictably changed.

Just set DPP to export the file to CS3 once the raw processing is done. You do not need CS3 Extended.

(Extended just provides tools for editing and importing some 3D graphics file formats, enhancing video, and comprehensive image analysis tools, utilizing MATLAB integration and DICOM file support.)

Edit away (including sharpening) and save the file in whatever format you want.

[seanie]

Great looking sootys. I reckon they could be deadly.
Sean