Adobe Lightroom : Новые версии : Учебные ресурсы

Camera Raw 5.7 includes an updated demosaic algorithm designed to provide compatibility with settings applied in Lightroom 3 beta 2.
Lightroom 2.7 also includes the same updated demosaic algorithm. The updated demosaic algorithm will appear as a subtle shift in noise characteristics at default values.
By default Camera Raw will display the image adjustments exactly as performed in the Lightroom 3 beta 2 develop module. However, at this time Camera Raw 5.7 is unable to support further adjustments to the following settings or tools:
Highlight Priority and Color Priority post-crop vignette
Enhanced Luminance and Color Noise Reduction
Grain effects
Process Version

So, I'm back from my remote shoot and back home. I've copied my image folders into the appropriate place in my desktop system and run at least one backup. I'm feeling in a post processing mood tonight, so what do I do? I'm going to use Photoshop ACR here as my example software, but everything I note can be translated into other conversion products. Warning: everything I'm talking about here is for a "normal" image. Images with real issues in them, or special cases like HDR and panos I'll deal with some other day.

1. Make a copy. Copy from the original folder to the Work in Progress folder. Open the copy.
2. Set white balance. Because white balance shifts the red and blue channel data, the first thing I usually do is set the white balance. Someone asked about UniWB workflow: it's no different than regular workflow. If I have a reference shot I took (ColorChecker or gray card in scene), I start my post processing session with it, establishing a white balance I can apply to subsequent images. Otherwise, I have to work from the image itself, which means finding something neutral and eye balling the result (you do have a calibrated monitor, right?).
3. Adjust Exposure. This includes not only exposure but also things like gamma, or in the case of ACR, Recovery, Fill, and Black settings. For the most part I'm not trying to get final tonal values set, I'm trying to get my data in the workable set of values.
4. Maybe make contrast adjustments. That's a big "maybe" for me. Many people spend a lot of time on contrast at this stage, but I prefer a relatively flat and neutral conversion to start with. I find it easier to add things than take them back out later. All I want is what I said in Step 3: all my data to be living in the range I can work on it. That means nothing near blowout at the top, and things lifted a bit off black at the bottom.
5. Invoke Color shifts. In ACR I love to use Hue/Saturation/Luminance at this point to do several things. I'll drop the Orange luminance, for instance, because for some reason Adobe thinks Nikon should output orangey reds rather than dead-on reds. Red is red, not orange. I'll often make shifts in sky values at this point using the Cyan and Blue controls.
6. Make Lens corrections. Now that we have this ability at the front end of the converter, that's where I'll do it.
7. Remove everything else. No noise reduction, no sharpening, no vibrance, no saturation. There are better ways (and times) to do all those things.