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I've had a little more time to work with the new Camera RAW Lab in X3.

After RAW files are transferred or copied to the PC from the camera, open Organizer in their folder. From there double-click on a RAW thumbnail to open Camera RAW Lab.

Inside Camera RAW Lab are several presets for White Balance, in addition to Temperature and Tint sliders for custom settings.

General control sliders are for Exposure, Brightness, Saturation, Shadow and Sharpness.

In addition, there are two noise reduction sliders -- Luminance and Color.

By default PSP's Camera RAW Lab opens in a small window with only a small preview. Expanding the RAW Lab to fullscreen also increases the size of the preview. However, it seems to me a button to toggle between Camera RAW Lab and fullscreen of the adjusted image would have been helpful.

There's a button to take the adjusted image into X3's full editor for additional adjustment.

Camera Raw Lab is a welcome addition to Paint Shop Photo Pro, however it lacks all of the fine adjustments available in Elements' version of Camera Raw.

(02-02-2010 01:19 PM)OldRadioGuy Wrote: [ -> ]Camera Raw Lab is a welcome addition to Paint Shop Photo Pro, however it lacks all of the fine adjustments available in Elements' version of Camera Raw.

Additional tests of the Olympus camera RAW format -- ORF -- reveal significant problems with PSPX3 Camera Raw Lab. Slow and unable to make proper highlight adjustments, among the numerous inadequacies. For Olympus camera owners it's much better to stick with Olympus Master 2 for processing the RAW files before taking them into Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3.

Bob

The new patch, PSPPX3 13.0.0.253, does not fix the problems with the application's Camera Raw Lab inability to process highlights correctly. Here's a comparison with what other raw converters do. The same image was opened in each of the converters with no processing applied.

Bob

After sending sample Raw images to Corel Support per their request, I received this reply this morning:

Thank you for your e-mail. Your issue has now been forwarded to the Resource and Development team within Corel for further investigation.

We are still looking into this issue so please keep posted by visiting our site from time to time for future updates.

Bob