The recent release of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and the subsequent update of Adobe Camera Raw v.5 [ACR] is just superb. The processing speed of large NEFs and PSD files is much improved over CS3, many new features added, etc….but one little addition in ACR5 is just best of all – the Graduated Filter option.
Bye bye to carrying Split-density Graduated Filters for every lens. Just do it later, in ACR!
The first is the original as was at the Mashobra page, and then the new version corrected in ACR5 with the Graduated Filter option:
 
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- PS CS4 / ACR5 resources:
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