What is your imaging color space?

[Tim Lookingbill]

Coming from a painting background a rule of thumb taught by many instructors for creating the illusion of depth on a 2D surface is to have the foreground advance by accentuating contrast, color and definition while making the background recede by doing the exact opposite.

I've looked at a lot of big country since I've been surrounded by it living in Texas all my life and I have to say my eyes agrees with this. I just wish landscape photographers would process their images the same way.

[SMGreenfield]

If you're on Mac, download the Lightroom beta and just use this. Which workspace to use then becomes irrelevant. Watch the two videos to get you started:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
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OK, I love Adobe products anyway.

So -- should I ONLY be shooting RAW?  Do I completely stop using Image Capture/iPhoto/Photoshop CS?

Stephen

[SMGreenfield]

If you're on Mac, download the Lightroom beta and just use this. Which workspace to use then becomes irrelevant. Watch the two videos to get you started:

Uh, oh -- does Lightroom require a version of Photoshop CS2 with the 3.x version of Camera RAW?  Because 3.x Camera Raw will not work with Photoshop CS1 -- which is what I've got.

[Stephen Best]

Uh, oh -- does Lightroom require a version of Photoshop CS2 with the 3.x version of Camera RAW?  Because 3.x Camera Raw will not work with Photoshop CS1 -- which is what I've got.
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It's a standalone product with its own built-in raw processing. The controls are similar to those from ACR. It costs nothing to try and will give you a good idea of where you want go in the future.