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What photo processing software should I use?

Good morning Yuri,

I just re-read your article on http://www.arcurs.com from May 2008 regarding technical problems related to the rejection of images. The biggest rejection reason I get is for artifacts. I was wondering what you would suggest using in place of Camera Raw? At present I am using CS4.

Thank you,
Henry

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Hi Henry.
I'm sorry to say this but Camera Raw is the worst piece of junk you can ever get your hands in. Throw it out as soon as you can. It's awful!However, this is not because of artifacting. It actually handles artifacting quite well. It's mostly because of the color settings and the algorithm used to translate colors into more saturated colors. They are nasty. So stay as far away from it as you possibly can.

Anyway, the mistake you are most probably making is that you are editing images in the file format ".jpeg". You need to always output your images as .tiff-files at 8bit (not 16), and do all the editing you need to do in the .tiff-file. Then, as the very last thing, output the file in .jpeg and upload it as RGP color space to whatever stock agency you are using.

If you are already editing your images in .tiff-file format and are still getting rejections because of artifacting, it is because of either your in-camera or post-processing sharpening settings. You need to find your sharpening settings and set them all to 0. If your images come out unsharp after this, you need to buy new and better lenses. Unfortunate, but true.

Hope this helped. :)

Best Regards Yuri Arcurs

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    kevarcurs | January 29, 2013 | No one likes this yet

    Question: Have i read your other comments in other blog questions to mean that you (1)shoot RAW in RGB, (2)save as 8bit TIFF and (3)process the TIFF in PS, THEN convert to sRGB and save as JPEG for submission to stock agency ???? Or do i just have my camera shooting RAW in sRGB already to save the "conversion from RGB to sRGB" conversion step ???? thanks in advance

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    kevarcurs | January 27, 2013 | No one likes this yet

    Slowly but surely I'm gathering a crumb of information here & a crumb there from places all over the internet where you've shared tidbits of information. I love the fact that it is hard to find a lot of them because that weeds out all the people that can't or won't put that much effort into busting through. I may never make a fortune but one day you're gonna say "How the heck did this guy learn all of this stuff???" and it'll be thanks to you. Now I'm curious how you learned all that you know about banding, reducing banding with noise, photo processing, shooting with zero sharpness setting. It's easy for us to learn from your tips but how does someone have the knowledge to figure it out on their own ? Did you do a lot of reading ?

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