Tools in acc ps and lr5.7.1 for difusing bright midday sun?

I sometimes have to shoot out of doors in bright midday sun. Are there any tools in PS or Lr to remedy this in post production? If so, what are they and how may they be accessed?

There really isn't a filter that can magically make those type of images look perfect. It's time to do some test shooting using exposure compensation and other techniques to discover better ways to get the result you are looking for.
The real key to daytime shooting is to try to avoid shooting between 10 AM and at least 2 PM. There are no shadows to speak of, and it's easy to overexpose images. I know that it sometimes cannot be avoided.

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What it does is prepare a bootable use stick. It also places the required flash exectable etc onto the drive and bios. So all you need to do is download whatever bios you wish from msi:
>>MSI Downloads<<
Place it on the desktop of the biostar computer, run the flash tool, point it at the bios then to your flash drive. Then put the flash drive in the other computer, hit f11 at boot and boot to the prepared usb stick.
Then follow the directions.

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what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
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etc.,
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Right now I am analyzing the SFDM Tool (Shop Floor Dispatching and Monitoring) and need some more Information, which cannot be found via Internet research. I hope someone, who is familiar with the technical details can support me with answers.
1. Master Data:
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i wouldn't recommend SFDM for performance problem solving, if this is the issue you are facing.
If this is because planners are "lost" with CM25 because of problems for Production Orders selection and so-on, then try SFDM.
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interactive logs
easy configuration of settings and strategy compared to CM2x TCodes
accessible details
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Experts,
First let me say that I am NOT an oracle expert, I am a basis person. Such is the reason I come seeking wisdom.
We are undergoing somewhat of a knee-jerk performance analysis, based on some user complaints. Our new-to-the-organization dba (who has no experience in SAP) is wanting to set up a small performance tablespace within our Production ECC DB and use sql trace and tkprof to analyze what ever it is that they are wanting to look at.
In the past we have been slightly more methodical about tracking down the problem, and then analyzing it based on traces and information within the ST* and DB* tools of SAP.
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- Does SQLTrace and TKProf give information not readily available within SAPs performance and administration txn's? (DBACockpit, ST* tools, Etc.)
(edit: environment is Solaris 10 64-bit/Oracle 10.2.0.2 64-bit e2900 64/GB Mem)
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Phillip
Edited by: Phil May on Oct 9, 2009 1:47 PM

Hi Stefan,
> At first i think, that the analyze possibilities inside SAP for performance issues are one of the best i have ever seen.
True and sad at the same time.
There would be so much more necessary to really have an end-to-end performance view of data processing processes in heterogeneous and distributed systems like SAP landscapes are.
>So in my opinion you can mostly identify and track down the performance issues within SAP itself (ST05, ST04, STAD, etc.).
> > Does SQLTrace and TKProf give information not readily available within SAPs performance and administration txn's?
> Of course .. the raw SQL trace is much more detailed (wait events, etc.), but to be honest .. mostly you don't need it in a SAP environment.
Hmm... I think this (being able to solve most problems with the currently available tool set) only partly comes from the completeness of the tool set.
At least for a part of it, I think it's something like 'When-all-you-have-got-i-a-hammer-everything-look-like-a-nail"-effect.
Usually the "Wait Event Evangelists" (like Cary Milsap) will tell you that the extended SQL trace is all you'll ever need to track down all of your performance issues.
Then there is a whole group of people that try to catch everything by staring at execution plans and theorizing about what execution step would be the problem cause (e.g. the bad hash join or the bad bad bad full table scan).
The DB-agnostic counterpart will say that the NetWeaver platform already covers everything necessary and that look out for additional indexes or ABAP parameters.
I think the truth lies (as usual) somewhere in between.
All in all I think the key point is to get an angle to the problems at all.
As soon as one can describe the problems in a structured way, (s)he has at least a chance to figure out what is happening when
the systems becomes slow.
Given that I'd also vote for the most convenient approach - and that is to use the GUI tools provided by NetWeaver.
And the more experienced Oracle tuning-super-heroes can always take a step further and emply the sql_id-data-collection script or one of the endless number of special scripts that are available through report RSORASTT nowadays.
Just my 2 pence...
regards,
Lars
Edited by: Lars Breddemann on Oct 10, 2009 10:31 AM

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