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v2014.123    11/08/13

Priority: Med

v2014.123 includes the following:

• Raw smart color: Revolutionary smart color routine automatically evaluates each raw photo to produce outstanding color (turn on/off in refine raw dialog).
• Editor smart color: Check all color channels on the smart color dialog (on the Sel Clr tab in the image editor) to utilize new smart color routine on JPEG's, TIFF's, etc.
• Raw refine: New "Raw refine" button on each raw thumbnail makes it easier to refine raw exposures with one click.
• 3D photo fix: Fixed a problem where some 3D thumbnails (MPO files) showed only one of the two side-by-side pictures.
• UI improvements: Minor UI polishing.

Mike

Yessiree,
We all know how well SMART EXPOSURE works on our images.... about 90% perfectly decoded without tweaking.
Now Mike has done about the same thing with our colors.

Smart color is reading each image and looking at each color channel..as it did before in Smart Color Boost in the Editor.
But it would only add color to whatever amount it took to fill the brightest color there already.

Sort of like having 6 kids come in for supper.
There's RED, YELLOW, GREEN, CYAN, BLUE, and MAGENTA.

Red was out at the beach all day.
Yellow was at the library all day.
Green was at the park at a picnic all day.
Cyan and Blue went to the movies all afternoon.
Magenta, hung out at the Pizza parlor with his friends.

In the previous versions, Magenta had eaten 3 slices of pizza with extra cheese during the afternoon, so he wasn't really hungry.
Red and Yellow were starving!
Green had a couple of chicken pieces at the picnic, and Cyan and Blue had too much candy at the movies.
So all you could do was click on the ball in Sel Color to see how much to feed them.
Based on Magenta, Blue and Cyan, who were already pretty full, you just put out a small amount of food for each child.

The new version reads the same... what each kid ate during the day, but now it feeds extra food to the hungry kids, and less to the ones that ate during the day and who were not as hungry.
So, after supper, all the  kids have just enough food to be comfortable, no belly aches, no indigestion... just a satisfied feeling after a proper meal.

... and should one of the kids develop a tummy ache, and you want him to eat light for a day, you can uncheck SMART COLOR (SC) in your refine screen, and have him skip a meal.

Hope this shed some light on SMART COLOR.... it is really smart.

Enjoy!

Fred

Hi Jeff,
Once the improvements are made to the raw image, they are now part of the raw image cache file, and not saved in a qrs file. 
You do see the improvements in the image when you enter the Editor, but I think you are referring to wanting to see the numbers?
If you want to see the changes to the color channels in the RAW, simply hover the mouse pointer over the little letter SC (Smart Color) in the refine screen, and you can all the changes.
If there's something special you wish to tweak, you can still do that in the Editor as before. 

Fred

Hi Tony,
You cannot undo "some" of the changes, it's all or nothing.
In my testing of this improvement, any images already with the old SCB applied, I cancelled that setting and used the raw Smart Colour which produces a much better result. 
However, if for example, I wanted to darken a sky (blue and cyan) or nip down the highlights (neutral), I used the Image Editor Selective Colour matrix to do that. You need to be careful boosting colours and check the RGB values as you do it, remember the raw boost will have taken each channel close to the limit, in fact I would not recommend it. 
Yes it is. It can be changed to off in raw preferences or merely un-tick in refine when not needed - or visa versa as Jeff is doing!
Terry

Hi Jeff,
I think "greens" (grass, leaves) are probably the yellow channel; you can check with the dropper in Sel Col in the editor.
SC will not blow any any channel and the RGB numbers will always be below 255 I believe. They certainly were when I checked 20+ images over the weekend. I did find a couple where I thought the grass was too bright but that is a matter of taste.
Like you I will sometimes do a fine tune in the editor.
Have you got a camera profile for QU?It is worth investigating if not.
Terry

Hello Terry & Fred

Thanks for your comments.

We have had some good summer days and I have been "Using My Eyes"  and yes freshish green grass is quite bright.  Grumpy Nil QU Ten.

It seems it is a matter of taste image by image.

The images I am working on are a few years old and it is showing how much QU has advanced in ease of use.  I some times did some final tweaking in PSE but other than the odd cloning out of unavoidable telegraph poles and wires etc I am into PSE less and less.

Other interesting points - no doubt a system fault - I ended up with 196 images in queue and QU would not make a complete set of web size.  It always failed about half way.  I had to split the job and do 20 to 30 at a time.

Also of on this job when exiting the editor clicking done all the thumbs would flicker for about 30 seconds and then run the revolving circle for a further 15 or so seconds before updating and allowing me to go to next image.

Interesting.

Jeff   
 

 
 

Jeff,
If you are exiting the editor after applying changes to filters, the thumbs will rebuild to reflect the changes in the filters you added or adjusted.

Be advised that certain filters are slower due to the intricacy. These may include Noise reductions, horizon leveling, etc.

I am currently running an email web copy routine with 150 images to check for any weird stuff.
I am currently running through 110. BTW, Jeff, I have the "Send By Email Client tick box UNCHECKED,

Running through 130 images and still going!!
OK finished 150.

I would check something..... remember Qimage is placing these web copies in a special folder for you. The next time you run the make web copies, it erases the first batch, and places the second batch in its place, and so on.
Any chance you just do not have the capacity?
So it has to do 30 at a time?

Fred