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<p>The Singh Ray color intensifier description says that it has no color cast and it's helluva expensive. Wonder how true this is?</p>

<p>Hi Mark, that seems to work fine. Never thought of that! I could also do the same by holding "ctrl" down.</p>

<p>Hi Matt, examples are Tiffen Color Enhancing and Lee Glass Enhancer filters</p>

<p>Hi, if I have an anchor point (not the last anchor point in the path) with two handles, is there a way to remove one of the handles? Thanks.</p>

<p>Please share your natural landscape photos taken with a red enhancer filter. A with and without photo will be nice for comparison of the filter effect. Thanks</p>

<p>Hi Patrick, what "spacing" do you use for the brush? Thanks again</p>

<p>I think the flow can be thought as "the rate of paint flowing out of the brush"</p>

<p>Hello Patrick, thank you very much for sharing this! I appreciate it.</p>

<p>Hi, I would like to find out what are your preferences for brush hardness for the following PS tools:<br>

- healing brush<br>

- clone stamp<br>

- dodge & burn<br>

Thanks for your inputs!</p>

Thanks guys, I got it done!

<p>Hi, I need to copy some PS actions which I have created in a PC to my laptop. In which PS folder can I find the action files? I did not save the actions to my desktop, but the files must be in some PS directory folder. Thanks!</p>

<p>Andrew, I understand your points. Thanks to all</p>

<p>Yup, I guess so. It is oversaturated in windows picture manager. Bringing down the saturation to -15 seems to help.</p>

<p>OK, I configured my color space in PS and ACR as recommended. But I think I found the cause of my problem. When I view the jpg file in Bridge or ACR, the color was correlated to the raw file. The problem was in opening the jpg file in the default windows picture manager. Is there anyway to configure the color space in windows picture manager?</p>

<p>Thanks for the inputs so far.<br>

How do I set the color space for jpg files in ACR? I can't seem to find the option. Thanks</p>

<p>When saving a raw file to jpg format after editing the raw file in ACR, I noticed that the color of the jpg file is different from the raw file. Is there any setting in ACR that can be changed so that the color of the raw file is not altered in jpg? Thanks</p>

<p>Hi, what method in Photoshop do you use for skin smoothing? Are there more than one method? Thanks in advance</p>

<p>Just an update: Better Business Bureau, Calgary, was not able to take any action against Visible Dust. According to their Mediation Administrator, "BBB is not an enforcement agency. We are a non profit neutral Organization, who tries to help with Consumer to Business disputes. We cannot force a company, and we cannot supply an opinion on a complaint. We have to remain completely neutral." For those who plan to take up any case through BBB, please do not expect much from them, based on my experience. At the end of the day the consumer is at the loosing end no matter the quality and defect in the product, if a manufacturer like Visible Dust attempts to cover up their manufacturing defects. In the case of Visible Dust, not only they denied the manufacturing defect but worse still, in one of their feedback to BBB, they accused the customer of purposely causing the defect! I was completely disgusted at the deceitful and negative attitude of Visible Dust that I told them to keep the defective loupe as per my last message to them below:<br /><br />Hi Visible Dust/Julie,<br /><br />Despite your denial and attempt at discrediting my complaint on your manufacturing defect, I stand by my findings on the defective coating in your sensor loupe product. You can keep the defective loupe as after all the bad experience I have gone through with Visible Dust, I am no more interested in using any of your products. I have never in my life had so much difficulty in dealing with a product issue. Although I will stand to lose more than $100 in buying this product and all the shipping expenses, it is a matter of principle for me. It is a pity that Better Business Bureau was not able to take any action against Visible Dust. I trust in God that truth and honesty will prevail in our lives. <br /><br />Mike</p>

<p>Tom, thanks for your explanation. I got it now.</p>

<p>I tried hard booting but the problem persists</p>

<p>Hi, I am facing a problem with the "alignment" option in the clone stamp tool. With the "alignment" box unticked, the alignment function is still active i.e. the sampling point is still moving in parallel to the cursor. Anyone faced this problem before? How can this be corrected? Thanks</p>

<p>Visible Dust's representative, Julie, seem to be quite dishonest and she is trying to put it such that it is not a manufacturing defect and trying to absolve Visible Dust of warranty replacement and shipping cost. I reproduce below the last email I sent to her (cc to Better Business Bureau, Calgary). It is obvious to me that I am dealing with a dubious company. I will never purchase another product from them and will never recommend their products to anyone.<br>

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Hi Julie,<br>

Here are my responses in brackets to your last email:<br>

1) Please let me know if you want me to send free of charge your Repaired Sensor Loupe which is cleared of any spots and fully functional, as it was an Optical cleaning problem. [i have already explained to you many times that I use exactly the same method of cleaning that you used i.e. with a microcloth and a cleaning solution, and tried cleaning a few times but the spot will not come out as they are permanent coating defects. This coupled with my long experience as a photographer and engineer specializing in coating technology further affirms this. I think the reason why you are insisting that it can be cleaned and making me appear to be in the wrong is only to dishonestly absolve your company of its warranty against manufacturing defect and to make me bear the full shipping charges]<br />2) You have not provided us with a receipt of purchase, therefore we cannot provide you a new unit of choice in black, as your original sensor is fully functional. [Again you’re being dishonest here as a receipt was already emailed to you on Oct 20th immediately upon your request as per the email communication below]<br />3) I can ship it C.O.D. the cost to ship Via Canada Post from Canada is 20$. [Again you’re dishonest as I have mentioned to you many times that I shipped back the defective loupe to you within 2 days of receipt of the loupe pending your return authorization email. I received it on Oct 3rd and shipped it back to Visible Dust on Oct 5th. You’re trying to absolve your responsibility of paying for the return shipping by citing your return policy of 14 days within receipt. Well, I returned the defective loupe to you within 2 days of receipt. I have a copy of the postal receipt as proof]<br>

Mike</p>

 

<p>Jeff, could you elaborate a little on what you said:<br>

Once you open the image into Photoshop, you ability to make adjustments will be more limited because of the gamma encoded, color space you are limited to in Photoshop.<br>

Thanks</p>

<p>Here's a message I received from another member:<br>

Well, when they first started they were the first ones on the market with a sensor brush. They had some really bizaare claims and pseudoscience on their site saying how novel it was (even though I used a similar electrostatic item to clean my LP's). The brush was very expensive ($90-$110 each)and to justify it they claimed they had a multi-thousand dollar plasma chamber to give the brush it it's magical properties. It was like a comic book. I had to find some references so you would know that I didn't make this up. Of course, you won't find info on their site anymore. I wish the original web page were still available, but these links I found will give you the gist of it.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/digital/sensor_cleaning_ii.html" target="_blank">http://www.bobatkins.com/photography...eaning_ii.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.dmcphoto.com/Articles/SensorBrushes/" target="_blank">http://www.dmcphoto.com/Articles/SensorBrushes/</a></p>

<p>With all the adjustment tools in ACR available in Photoshop CS5, do you do all your editing in PS or still some adjustments in ACR? Please elaborate on your reasons. Thanks</p>