What are you ACR defaults?

[KevinCarter]

Discovering recently how bad the ACR defaults are, got me curious to wonder what others do.
Obviously every image is different, but it would fun to hear in general sense what the most common adjustments or setting tweaks people use for the majority of their images. thanks!

[Johan_Elzenga]

Maybe you should start by reading the "Camera Raw Defaults for Best Quality" thread; just above this one...

[KevinCarter]

thanks Johan the lamest respones to a thread question I have ever seen.

[KevinCarter]

sorry, Johan, yes that was good thread, ok -- I always get peeved when people respond with- go see this.... But I'm hoping to hear from Noel and others what are your formulas

[Martin_Kristiansen]

The setting are of course different for different cameras. With the Canons I move the blacks slider all the way to the left. I find the blacs fill in a little without this tweek. I also turn off all sharpening.

I look forword to more sophisticated advice that the above. Thanks for starting this thread!

[AndrewCassino]

I don't believe in pre-baked settings because each image (and type of image) has different requirements. There is no substitute for being able to analyze an image and diagnose what adjustments are needed, and there's no substitute for knowing exactly how the controls in ACR work so that one can accomplish those adjustments. This requires study and practice, study and practice. There are no magic settings that eliminate the need to master one's craft!

Bruce Fraser's Real World Camera RAW pretty well lays everything out that's needed for ACR, but I can tell you I also learned to master Capture One and DPP by studying that book. Similarly it will still teach you how to handle ACR 4.1 because the principles are all the same and there's been enough information released by Adobe about the new controls in 4.1 that anyone that's learned previous versions can fairly easily understand them.

Meanwhile, Jeff Schewe is writing the update version for CS3 and it will be out this fall:

PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information » Archive » Book Writing Hiatus for PhotoshopNews

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[Johan_Elzenga]

That's exactly my point. I think that the "Camera Raw Defaults for Best Quality" thread made it clear that there is no such thing as a default that is more than just the position some sliders happen to be in when you start working. That's why I feel that this thread is just starting that discussion all over again. You may find that a lame answer, I think it's a realistic answer (to perhaps a lame question?).