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Title: Auto Fill Video Post by: Fred A on May 06, 2011, 04:56:03 PM Holy Moley!
Did anyone try the new auto fill for raw image decoding in Ultimate? I have been experimenting, and find that to be very accurate. I tried it on older folders and new images right from the card. What a wonderful addition. The video explains what is going on... Rarely do I have to override the Auto fill selection of fill level. ... and even then, one tick up or down is all that I change. Here's a sample of one image; before auto fill and with Auto fill Enjoy, Fred http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=88jb-__8cmo&vq=hd720 Title: Re: Auto Fill Video Post by: Jeff on May 07, 2011, 06:31:25 AM Yes, it is truly impressive.
Jeff Title: Re: Auto Fill Video Post by: Terry-M on May 07, 2011, 08:10:19 PM Quote Yes, it is truly impressive I would agree with that Jeff. And the video is not bad too ;) Thanks Fred! This is my most recent experience using Auto Fill with a new batch of images: On Friday I visited a garden made in an old stone quarry famous for its Azaleas and Rhododendrons. The weather was sunny with white clouds moving across the sky occasionally covering the sun. Thus there was a variety of lighting conditions including the shady areas of the garden and the bright colours of the blossom in bright sun. I took about 70 photos altogether. What was impressive when they were loaded into Qimage Ultimate was that they looked good even before going through them in the Refine screen. The bright light on a number of them did require the use of a couple of clicks on a grid rectangle to recover highlights and these often had a shady background making a high contrast image. Auto Fill changed the fill appropriately in most of those images, or at least provided a good starting point to make fine adjustments. Similarly, when there was cloud covering the sun or in a shaded area, AF worked very well too. Overall, about 85% of the images didn’t need any manual adjustments to the fill level. So, very quickly, I was able to produce a set of fully developed raw images, each with it’s individual adjustments, many of which were automatic. That’s not to say that’s all that was necessary for printing or web copies. Final critical refinements would be done in the Editor such as TTS, modify contrast with a curve, etc. Just one example below, or see the rest here: http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/quarrygdn11 Terry (http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/image/134502971/original.jpg) |