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Originally Posted by Dennis
Hi Chris
Although you know this already, just to make sure you don’t get caught up in the festive induced, spur-of-the-moment purchase syndrome, CS5 contains all the necessary functionality without the need for the plug ins, if you are prepared to spend the time to investigate CS5’s capabilities and automate some of them for your workflow purposes. 
If you choose to do that, you will gain a profound understanding of the rich functionality of CS5 and how it can “develop” your (good) data.
I’m afraid I was too impatient and wanted the results immediately…so for my own personal enjoyment, the plug-ins are an ideal time saver and I am left a little impoverished in terms of CS5’s capability, not to mention my wallet. 
Mike has very thoughtfully noted that any processing, whether native or via plug-ins, always work best on good data. 
What I post here are my best, five ***** images. You don’t get to see the 100’s of bad ones! LOL. 
Cheers
Dennis |
Thanks Dennis-I'll look into automating,and try and learn more on CS5,I find it very vast a takes up a huge amount of my time,in trying to get a handle on it.
I think you said,in one of our conversations,you can automate the Topaz,to the setting s you want,and run a batch of images through,rather than do each one individually.
Either way,it certainly helps to get the best possible image in the field-one can always come back to the RAW data-even if its years,before one gets some skills in PP.
Thanks for settings with your flash-I was pleased to read this,and will apply them on a macro excursion-and will use the diffuser.
Cheers Chris