DPP sort order

Why won't DPP remember my sort order the next time I open it? Or am I doing something wrong?


thanks Chuck

[ChuckWestfall]

Hi, Chuck:

Thanks for the suggestion! We'll add this to the list of requests for the next version of DPP.

I've got one more also. It takes forever for the thumb nails to show up completely. Can you put a setting for a lower quality thumb or improve this in another way? It may not matter if it would remember my sort order. Right now each time I open a folder I have to wait for all thumbs to draw, then I can sort and proceed with editing.

thanks Chuck

[JackJosephJr]

Chuck (whom I am not supposed to address directly),

DPP is so good it only needs some tweaks to be much better and much more usable. Here are a few "easy" ones;

1. DPP needs to remember the sort order.
2. DPP needs to be able to be configured to automatically load vrd versions of the same file name when the folder is opened. This is for people who just don't want to save changes to the RAW files or for swapping color with B&W vrds in a folder.
3. DPP needs a file browser screen button for applying sharpening to selected images.
4. DPP needs to be able to read all of the Picture Styles data from the image including other Styles that have been added to the camera, like RIT does.
5. DPP needs to turn off that too-sharpened look that makes for a wonderful screen view but does not reflect the converted image.
6. DPP needs an actual, real-time histogram on the RAW Image Adjustment tab.
7. DPP needs a bit more, or maybe just a bit of, highlight recovery using current DPP conversion look.
8. DPP needs to show thumbnails that reflect Trimming Tool and Stamp Tool changes.
9. (really important to me) DPP needs to be able to display LZW compressed TIFs and JPGs saved by Photoshop CS2. I mean really, how can any application be considered "professional" if one cannot see images that have been worked on in Photoshop? DPP 1.6 could display Photoshop JPGs but 2.x won't.

Finally here is a tough one;

1. DPP needs to have an RIT mode where the Raw Image Adjustment tab becomes exactly the tool set and uses the algorithms that RIT uses. As great as DPP is to use, and I like it a lot, I much prefer the conversions that RIT makes. They are accurate between JPG and RAW and they have a more refined, less harsh look to them. Additionally when I work in RIT it is as if I'm working directly from my camera. Since a lot of what I shoot is required to be JPG working on RAW in RIT adds to my camera-JPG skills.

Many thanks to Canon for the continuous improvements that have been made in DPP. BTW wouldn't a Photoshop plug-in version (like Nikon has) be great?