I am in "tears" no more 32 bit so no more wine works under VM which i was doing with previous version but now it is beyond slow. so forget linux. Now i will have to run Linux under VM :-( suxs.
According to that page:
Appreciably faster on my Mac Pro tower, but it is a bit old (been upgraded over the years)... mid 2010 2.8Ghz quad core 16 Gig Ram & 1Tb SSD running 10.11.6 if it runs slower on your machine and everything is set correctly it may be best to go back to SPP 6.5.5 and skip this version.
I understand your annoyance, but I did not make my statements lightly. If there's such a big difference between your SPP versions, then there must be a bug.
I can't quite follow what you wrote since I am so new to this program but I was talking about initial default settings in each program. I will re-read your reply to try and figure it out this weekend.I took an SD! Merrill and processed it with SPP5.5. I saved the settings in the X3F file. I then oppened 6.6, changed my X3F setting from Auto to Default X3F. I opened 6.6 and set my applicable adjustment to "X3F" and loaded the iimage. Despite having "X3F" checked in preferences, it selected "Custom" which was a completely different set of tonal adjustments. So I entered them manually and reprocessed the imge WB was AWB
I repeated the test with two new images. Same thing happened with 6.6 - it chose a custom set and not X3F. I changed to X3F and it picked up the correct settings. WB was sunlight.
I used LAB in photoshop with magnification set at 3200 so that i could matdh on a pixel basis. On both images I had minor differences in the LAB numbers. Often only 1 or 2 points but 3-6 not uncommon. I could not find any pattern. The sunlight shot seemed to have more differences.
I can't see any difference in the sets but my color perception is so-so.
Here are both sets:
SPP5.5 AWB
SPP6.6 AWB
SPP5.5 Daylight
SPP6.6 Daylight
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Thanks for your reply. While the images are nice perhaps you could mention how you processed them. I am new to Sigma and SPP and and trying to figure this out.I understand your annoyance, but I did not make my statements lightly. If there's such a big difference between your SPP versions, then there must be a bug.
See my samples below. There is no difference. Check your settings.
Cheers
B.
Paul, may I suggest you make a copy of whatever file you're using (to be safe), process it in SPP 5.5.3 (or whatever flavor of SPP you are already using), and then save the changes you make to the raw file or at least save a preset. I don't know if that preset will be available to you in SPP 6.6.0, because I don't know if SPP 6.x is capable of using settings from SPP 5.x, but if you try it will be informative to you and us too. You might try setting default settings for one version of your file too (everything in the middle - both in noise settings and in exposure and color settings). With the default settings version, please set the white balance yourself to shade, cloudy, or daylight, and then do the same thing with a default settings version that you will make in SPP 6.6.0. When you're saving, please make your jpegs in sRGB color with level 11 or 12 compression. Then post them here for us. If you can make screen-shots of each set of processing settings it would be really nice too, as you can see what I have done in my post about SPP 6.6.0 at SigmaPhotoPro.com last night.Thanks for your reply. While the images are nice perhaps you could mention how you processed them. I am new to Sigma and SPP and and trying to figure this out.I understand your annoyance, but I did not make my statements lightly. If there's such a big difference between your SPP versions, then there must be a bug.
See my samples below. There is no difference. Check your settings.
Cheers
B.
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-Paul
Beginning lose track of who posted what but in the GIMP it is possible extract the hue layer. The two immediately above:I can't quite follow what you wrote since I am so new to this program but I was talking about initial default settings in each program. I will re-read your reply to try and figure it out this weekend.I took an SD! Merrill and processed it with SPP5.5. I saved the settings in the X3F file. I then oppened 6.6, changed my X3F setting from Auto to Default X3F. I opened 6.6 and set my applicable adjustment to "X3F" and loaded the iimage. Despite having "X3F" checked in preferences, it selected "Custom" which was a completely different set of tonal adjustments. So I entered them manually and reprocessed the imge WB was AWB
I repeated the test with two new images. Same thing happened with 6.6 - it chose a custom set and not X3F. I changed to X3F and it picked up the correct settings. WB was sunlight.
I used LAB in photoshop with magnification set at 3200 so that i could matdh on a pixel basis. On both images I had minor differences in the LAB numbers. Often only 1 or 2 points but 3-6 not uncommon. I could not find any pattern. The sunlight shot seemed to have more differences.
I can't see any difference in the sets but my color perception is so-so.
Here are both sets:
SPP5.5 AWB
SPP6.6 AWB
SPP5.5 Daylight
SPP6.6 Daylight
--
http://www.lightreflection.com
http://www.silveroaksranch.com
http://www.pbase.com/rickdecker
Thanks Rick...
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-Paul
