jeff_louie Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Reading the responses here about light falloff I upgraded from Photoshop Elements to PhotoshopCS and applied the lens distortion vignette filter and as suggested, it fixed my wide angle 5d light falloff problem! So thanks to everyone who suggested this. I also purchased Aperture for the Mac a week ago, but I am still upgrading my system to even load it! So far I have added a second hard drive, 2 gigs of RAM and updated to Tiger, but still no joy on a dual 1.8 G5. Apparently my video card is too puny. Hopefully, when I get Aperture to run I can start shooting in pure RAW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdanmitchell Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Hey, Jeff, Aperture is pretty cool - or at least it has the potential to be cool once a few rough edges are polished up and we all own dual processor Macs... ;-) However, I'm not sure what you mean when you write "Hopefully, when I get Aperture to run I can start shooting in pure RAW." Do you mean that you won't need to use the camera RAW mode that also captures a jpg image at the same time? You can work with pure RAW images right now using Bridge and Photoshop. I never shoot jpg on my 350D and it all works fine for me. Take care, Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnhoff Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Be careful! Your videocard has absolutely nothing to do with Photoshop performance, unless you are using a lot of 3D apps (like games), leave it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnhoff Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 "unless you are using a lot of 3D apps (like games), leave it." Maybe a bit misleading, not "unless", 3D and the videocard is a completely different story compared to PS work (mainly CPU and memory intensive). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_larson1 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I agree. On the list of "photography upgrades", I have things like Internal Hard Drives, External Hard Drives, RAM". And a color calibrator :) -> Video card upgrades simply are not needed. (unless, maybe, you need 30 FPS for slide shows!) On a serious note: Saddens me to think that using a $1200 camera (20D), you can use a $99 software package. And when you get a $3000 camera. . .you need a $800 software package. What lenses are you using that produced these results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_austin Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 It's a shame you had to upgrade to Photoshop CS just to fix vignetting. Aren't there any Mac equivalents to the PTLens and Flo's Filters plug-ins for Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawz Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Get the Adobe Lightroom beta if you want to play with an aperture-like app. It's free, runs on any Mac with at least a G4 1Ghz and 768MB RAm and is faster than Aperture and doesn't shove all your files into a proprietary database. It does however lack some editing tools currently (Of course it's still beta and not feature complete). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awindsor Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 LensFix from Kekus digital is a commercial product which duplicates the functionality of PTLens. They are both front ends for PanoTools by Helmust Dersch (though credit belongs to others for many fixes and for 16 bit support). http://www.kekus.com/ You can do equivalent things with Hugin, a freeware front end for panotools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_louie Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Thanks for everyone that responded. Aperture has some really crazy minimal system requirements and will not even install unless I upgrade my video card. It looks like I am going to need to start to shoot in RAW and learn more about digital darkrooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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