Hi all. Thank you for selecting my edit as the winner of RAWCOMP13. It is my honor to host the next installment of the RAW editing competition, RAWCOMP14!
For those of you who are new to RAWCOMP, the concept is pretty simple. The last winner becomes the host and posts a link to a RAW photo in dng format. Contestants download the image and edit using RAW editor only. The resulting file is then saved, submitted and tagged RAWCOMP14. The host then adjudicates on the edits and presents a selection for voting.
Here is the link to the RAW file for editing
Full RAW file
"All editing must be done with a RAW processor , using no other software or plugins" - so either Lightroom, Adobe Camera RAW, the RAW processing software that came with your camera, but nothing else that does more than RAW processing - no NIK plugins, no compositions, no other editing other than RAW processing. This differentiates it from WWYD, where any editing goes. Cropping the photo is allowed but must be done within the RAW processor."
All entries must be submitted by midnight, 21st February, and the finalists will be announced the morning of 22nd February.
Please tag your photo RAWCOMP14
I look forward to seeing your entries, and good luck.
Please let me know if you guys have any difficulty downloading the raw file.
I'm not much of a landscape photographer, so I didn't have very many beautiful pics to choose from. I tried to choose something that have lot of things to meddle with like the overblown sky, dust, exposure issues, etc. So, you have lots of things to play with in your raw editor. Have fun! I'm excited to see your interpretation of this picture.
I'm just learning lightroom, so I want to play!! I managed to download it OK, took me a while to work out how to save it...computer wanted to save it as a JPEG???? All sorted now.
I am using Camera Raw that comes with my photoshop elements. I can't take out the dust spots within camera raw, am I allowed to use my editor for that?
@ikamera@cgoose ACR with photoshop elements is exactly the same ACR that comes with photoshop and I am sure it allows for spot removal. I don't have time to check now but it is one of the tools in the top left corner. Of course it depends what version you have - however, the rules remain that all editing must be done within the raw editor.
The GIMP is a free photo editor that has a RAW editor plugin - you might want to try that?
@cgoose Callie, please check Ian's reply above. I have a little icon for spot removal(keyboard shortcut B) next to straightening tool in my ACR editor. But then, I use photoshop and am not sure either about PSE or the versions that have it.
@acloserlookpbd Dawn, sorry about that. However, as Ian is the one who set the rules for the comp and he says all editing needs to be done in the Raw editor only, I can't be of any help here. @iwatts
Can anyone suggest a workaround or any other tools to help remove spots IN the raw editor?
@ikamera Hi - I am at a bit of a loss - I've just done the research and didn't realise that Elements shipped with a different version of camera raw than photoshop.
I am tempted to allow you to get rid of dust spots using a different editor but that the opens up the way for a whole load of people asking similar questions and suddenly everyone is doing stuff outside or RAW.
So, I am afraid, my answer has to be that the rules are the rules, and that if you cannot do it in your RAW processor, then you cannot do it. GIMP is free and can do it, but doesn't get great results according to reviews I have just read.
So sorry - I so want to tell you that you can, but I don't want the barrage of requests from other uses wanting to do things outside of the RAW processor that they can't perrorm in it.
@iwatts Ian, I totally understand. The beauty of the raw competition is the realization that so much can be done by just using the raw editor, although there are some limitations such as spot removal. Once people start to do things outside the raw editor, that awe factor is gone.
@acloserlookpbd Dawn, for the sake of this round of competition, I promise I'll disregard dust spots when selecting finalists.
Here's my entry @acloserlookpbd I also have this system but once I edited my photo to my liking in camera raw I then imported it to iPhoto which allows me to get rid of dust spots.
I hope that is acceptable and within the rules but that is my suggestion.
@iwatts Ian, hahaha... That lone helicopter is in many of my pics. That's the biggest dust spot on my sensor. I remember seeing a thread from you about sensor cleaning. I have to do it ASAP.
@ikamera I'm using Lightroom 5 and it has spot removal so I'm going to use it for my entry :) It's the morning of the 21st in US so I have a few more hours to submit my entry.
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I'm not much of a landscape photographer, so I didn't have very many beautiful pics to choose from. I tried to choose something that have lot of things to meddle with like the overblown sky, dust, exposure issues, etc. So, you have lots of things to play with in your raw editor. Have fun! I'm excited to see your interpretation of this picture.
"Cropping the photo is allowed but must be done within the RAW processor."
The GIMP is a free photo editor that has a RAW editor plugin - you might want to try that?
Can anyone suggest a workaround or any other tools to help remove spots IN the raw editor?
I am tempted to allow you to get rid of dust spots using a different editor but that the opens up the way for a whole load of people asking similar questions and suddenly everyone is doing stuff outside or RAW.
So, I am afraid, my answer has to be that the rules are the rules, and that if you cannot do it in your RAW processor, then you cannot do it. GIMP is free and can do it, but doesn't get great results according to reviews I have just read.
So sorry - I so want to tell you that you can, but I don't want the barrage of requests from other uses wanting to do things outside of the RAW processor that they can't perrorm in it.
@acloserlookpbd Dawn, for the sake of this round of competition, I promise I'll disregard dust spots when selecting finalists.
@acloserlookpbd I also have this system but once I edited my photo to my liking in camera raw I then imported it to iPhoto which allows me to get rid of dust spots.
I hope that is acceptable and within the rules but that is my suggestion.
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1) Go to your page that has the photo you would like to post.
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