HDR Efex Pro is pretty handy as an HDR merging/effects tool, and while Sharpener Pro and Dfine feel pretty dated now, they can still be useful for output sharpening and noise reduction respectively. Viveza gets the same treatment and is elevated from a relatively simple local adjustment tool into a much more powerful plug-in. Silver Efex Pro remains the best digital black and white plug-in ever and is updated in this version with a fresh, modern interface, a new ClearView option, and more powerful selective control points. Analog Efex Pro is brilliant at analog/darkroom effects, while Color Efex Pro is a hugely powerful suite of filters for individual use or combined into 'recipes'. I will likely tweak that process once I upgrade to a faster laptop later this year, but for now at least, it is working for me.Nik Collection 4 consists of eight separate plug-ins which can also be used as standalone programs. So far it has been the one edited by PureRaw about 80% of the time that I have kept, as the sharpness and improved clarity work well, and don’t seem overdone. I then compare the two images and discard the one that I don’t like. Once I have a file that I think is a keeper, and my edits are complete, I open PureRaw, process the original, non imported, non edited file, export it to LR and then I paste my edits from one to the other. From there I do my first stage of review, deleting some, flagging others, etc, then I start on my edits. I copy new images to my hard drive directly from the card, and then I import them all, using Copy, into LR. I believe I have settled on a process for now that I like, both for efficiency, as my three-year old MacBook Pro takes 2 minutes to process one image in PureRaw, and for quality control, as I find the processing to be sometimes overdone by PureRaw. PureRAW processes the underlying camera raw information.Īfter processing, it embeds the adoptions from LR (like the exposure and color) but not the adoptions which would conflict with the changes from PureRAW like profile correction, sharpening or noice reduction.īy the way, if you use the export functionality from LR (format Original or DNG) the behavior is identical as you would make changes to your DNG/RAW and saving metadata to file and use drag&drop. Compare PureRAW.DNG and PureRAW_2.DNG (400%)Įven if LR saves metadata to file, it saves it as an adopted information, and does not change the underlying camera raw information.Reset the development settings PureRAW_2.DNG (Reset button in module develop).Save the metadata (Photo/Save metadata to file)Īt first sight, the imported PureRAW_2.DNG only shows the exposure setting.It is obvious, that the imported PureRAW.DNG does not show any development settings. As there were no difference between the two formats, I will use just DNG/RAW in the following (which is not absolutely precise). Both formats came directly from my camera. From my opinion, the question when to process your RAWs is not that important, as long as are working with the DNG/RAW from your camera.
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