PS CS & Zoombrowser raw conversion differences

[Nabil-A]

Is it just me ???

I take all my photos in raw, however when i open them up in PS CS with the raw plugin i never quite get the same vividness as i would when i open up the raw in zoombrowsers raw converter...

[tim]

Play with the saturation, contrast, and shadows sliders. Try RawShooter Essentials too, it's free and a lot of people like it.

[Nabil-A]

Play with the saturation, contrast, and shadows sliders. Try RawShooter Essentials too, it's free and a lot of people like it.

Perhaps i wasnt specific enough..im aware of the what a slider can and cant do and the varying options, its just that i would have thought that if i open them up in zoombrowser or rawshooter... that they photo would come up in its default setting.

for example when i open it in zoom.... it picks up the camera settings ie shot in vivid and for example daylight whitebalance... whereas in adobe... i have to stuff around first... most times the setting in zoombrowser doesnt need that much adjustment where i prefer to to do all post processing in cs....with the raw converter in Cs i find that i cant quite get the starting point that i could get out of zoombrowser.

[tim]

PS CS is pretty neutral, I think you can set defaults that fit your camera better.

[Jesper]

Different RAW conversion programs have different default settings. Like Tim says, in Adobe Camera Raw the default settings often make a photo look a little dull and flat. You can tweak the parameters in Camera Raw and save those settings so you can reuse them.

Some software (especially Canon's own RAW conversion software, Digital Photo Professional) takes the camera's parameter settings (for sharpness, contrast, saturation etc.) that are saved along in the CRW or CR2 file as defaults, so if you change those parameters in the camera before shooting, your photos will look different in DPP at the default settings.