RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3

Deming86 · 14th December 2008

Hey Canon Peeps!

Just curious to ask you guys do you use Adobe Camera Raw or Canon Utilities to process your RAW? Your opinions and views on this is appreciated. Thinking of deleting Canon Utilities as the ACR seems to have more flexibility with regards to editing the RAW. =]

sprewell · 14th December 2008

i use Canon's DPP (for tethered mode shooting) and it makes natural senses to edit direct from DPP.

Then again. If it does not take up too much of your comp space, just leave it la. Never know when you need it.

Headshotzx · 14th December 2008

I use lightroom 2

Deming86 · 14th December 2008

yeah i thought of keeping both too~ haha but its sucky whenever my hard drive space turns red in explorer.. >.< Just wondering if it'll be redundant to retain Canon DPP with ACR, other than a matter of preference, anyone has any experience or grounds to feel more inclined for one over the other? =]

doodah · 14th December 2008

I switch between Canon's DPP and Lightroom 2, depending on the color output.

It's sometimes possible to get Lightroom 2 to put out the same colors as DPP, but not always. And I am too lazy to do severe color tweaking. For layering and other complex processing, I simply export the TIFF output from the above-mentioned software into Photoshop.

Deming86 · 14th December 2008

haha alrighty, thanks for the feedback everyone! Think i'll just retain both programs and upgrade my disk space >.< Lightroom 2 seems pretty popular too... hmmm..

elmzarcega · 14th December 2008

I'm using Lightroom2... great apps for RAW shooters....

m3lv1nh0 · 14th December 2008

Lightroom 2 FTW!

chalib · 14th December 2008

How much to get Lightroom 2 at the moment?

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Deming86 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SengKang Posts: 262	RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 Hey Canon Peeps! Just curious to ask you guys do you use Adobe Camera Raw or Canon Utilities to process your RAW? Your opinions and views on this is appreciated. Thinking of deleting Canon Utilities as the ACR seems to have more flexibility with regards to editing the RAW. =] __________________ 450D \| 50 F1.8 \| 17-40 F4/L \| 70-200 F4/L IS \| 580EX II Passion in Photography, Not For Greed/Ego!

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sprewell Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Serangoon Central Posts: 792	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 i use Canon's DPP (for tethered mode shooting) and it makes natural senses to edit direct from DPP. Then again. If it does not take up too much of your comp space, just leave it la. Never know when you need it.

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Headshotzx Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Punggol Posts: 3,997	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 I use lightroom 2 __________________ Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here - JoeMcnally \| Flickr

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Deming86 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SengKang Posts: 262	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 yeah i thought of keeping both too~ haha but its sucky whenever my hard drive space turns red in explorer.. >.< Just wondering if it'll be redundant to retain Canon DPP with ACR, other than a matter of preference, anyone has any experience or grounds to feel more inclined for one over the other? =] __________________ 450D \| 50 F1.8 \| 17-40 F4/L \| 70-200 F4/L IS \| 580EX II Passion in Photography, Not For Greed/Ego!

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doodah Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 799	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 I switch between Canon's DPP and Lightroom 2, depending on the color output. It's sometimes possible to get Lightroom 2 to put out the same colors as DPP, but not always. And I am too lazy to do severe color tweaking. For layering and other complex processing, I simply export the TIFF output from the above-mentioned software into Photoshop. __________________ A View Through My Lens

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elmzarcega Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Woodlands Posts: 1,121	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 I'm using Lightroom2... great apps for RAW shooters.... __________________ My Flickr...

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m3lv1nh0 Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Serangoon North Posts: 2,050	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 Lightroom 2 FTW! __________________ Weddings . Blog . Facebook

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chalib Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,445	Re: RAW Processing: Canon Utilities or Adobe CS3 How much to get Lightroom 2 at the moment?