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Re: How do you deal with X3F files ?
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larryj wrote:
MGinitials wrote:
Dear all,
I have recently acquired a long wanted DP1 Merrill. I shoot raw and thus have to deal with X3F files. I have been using Capture One for a little while now and am quite happy with it. However X3F files are not - to my knowledge - natively supported.
I tried SPP, but... It is clunky.
and has limited functionality !
I am thus curious to know what is your usual workflow to edit X3F files : do you use SPP, do you export as a TIFF (or else...) and then use you prefered editing application, etc... ?
I currently use the Sigma Photoshop add-in to process my
Sigma files directly for the X3F Raw files. The raw files are brought into Photoshop as a PDF file and processed in Camera Raw and then photoshop if more downstream processing is necessary, 80+% of my images are completed in Camera Raw.
Prior to the Sigma add-in my workflow was SSP to Tiff then to Lightroom or Photoshop.
Hope this is helpful to you,
Your feedback would be very helpful,
Regards,
MG
PDF? Amazing!
I use SPP's browse module to decide on keepers, then batch all photos to high quality JPEG, SPP set to portrait mode, Luminance NR 0 (fully left), Sharpness -1.5.
I then use any handy editor to examine in detail, crop where needed, and make any small adjustments. These go in with my general photos collection.
I also use the JPEGs to decide on favourites for further work, whereupon I return to SPP and make a TIFF and edit in detail with Affinity Photo. That was until earlier this year, when I discovered Affinity Photo suddenly had the ability to process X3F (Quattro) very nicely, so I now take favourite X3Fs directly into Affinity for editing.
cheers
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