ACR RAW processing advantages and then Tone mapping

pellicle said:

Hi

I have (for example) an image (single) which I find easier to work with in Photomatix (the tone mapping helps short cut the layers needed for contrast control) but I don't get the nice features (of even my old version of) ACR which can help to fix chromatic aberration on my wide lens.

Is there a way that I can fix the aberrations in the processing flow?

thanks

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Don Bryant said:

You will have to process the RAW file first.

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1. processing the RAW first to a jpg (set aside)
2. processing RAW in ACR
3. processing that tiff in Photomatix
4. taking that again into Photoshop and doing a match colour based on the jpg produced in step 1

pellicle said:

which isn't quite as snappy as the RAW processed in Photomatix but at least it clears up the chromatic abb (which is exaggerated in the tone mapping)

thanks

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