Photo Ninja workflow. . .

[mark rupert]

I’ve been sending raw files to PN from LR, which has been my photo organization tool for a long time and my main raw converter until just recently. When the images come back to LR as 16-bit Tiffs, I can send them to PS for further magic diddling if need be. I have had no serious issues with this process yet.

 

[sanmaj]

I have been using this exact workflow also. Open in Lightroom, send to PN, make RAW adjustments and then back to Lightroom. I then could go to PS CS6 if necessary, but I have found that I need to do that with less than 3% of the work that I do. It works for me.

 

[Abrak]

miketuthill wrote:

Just to show you that it is possible:

NEF file opened using Photo Ninja Photoshop plugin. Note the Colour Recovery is not greyed out.

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Well this is a bit strange. I suspect that this pic was generated using the 'Photo Ninja plugin for PS' that makes 'PN the default raw converter'.

My problem was that if I originally brought a photo converted with ACR into PS and then used 'PN from the filter menu' and I wasnt able to get any 'color recovery'.

It seems it is just the way it works having received a response from Picturecode. What they say is this 'when you are invoking a filter plugin in Photoshop, the raw image data has already been processed... leaving only pixel data (like a tiff)'.

That is something of a shame. I was rather hoping to combine in an 'easy manner' PN raw conversion with ACR. Opening with ACR, creating a PN layer via the filter and then brushing in the parts of the image that I felt was best processed by one or other raw converters

 

[miketuthill]

Abrak wrote:

miketuthill wrote:

Just to show you that it is possible:

NEF file opened using Photo Ninja Photoshop plugin. Note the Colour Recovery is not greyed out.

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Well this is a bit strange. I suspect that this pic was generated using the 'Photo Ninja plugin for PS' that makes 'PN the default raw converter'.

My problem was that if I originally brought a photo converted with ACR into PS and then used 'PN from the filter menu' and I wasnt able to get any 'color recovery'.

It seems it is just the way it works having received a response from Picturecode. What they say is this 'when you are invoking a filter plugin in Photoshop, the raw image data has already been processed... leaving only pixel data (like a tiff)'.

That is something of a shame. I was rather hoping to combine in an 'easy manner' PN raw conversion with ACR. Opening with ACR, creating a PN layer via the filter and then brushing in the parts of the image that I felt was best processed by one or other raw converters

Yes, it is via the plugin. I guess I didn't (and maybe still don't) understand your need for using 2 raw processors.

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[photodgm]

I shoot Nikon so my workflow at the moment is to download from card, view in Nikon ViewNX2, delete the rubbish mark up the ones I want to work with, then open the file I want in PS5 (but it is set up so that the RAW file is opened in PN rather than ACR, do what I want to with Raw processing then click PSDone which sends the file to CS5 proper do anything else I want to, then save a copy as a .psd and probably another as .jpg if I'm going to send it to someone or publish on the web.

There are a couple of problems with this - I would like a photo organiser/manager that can display Nikon NEF, .psd and .jpg files. Also I'm relying on always being able to read .psd files into the future so I'm wondering about creating a .tiff file and saving it as a sort of archive copy.

I've only started working this way for the last couple of weeks so I would class this as a work in progress. Following Adobe's recent decisions I am reluctant to jump into Lightroom although it would probably do what I want.

 

[Phil_L]

photodgm wrote: snip..

There are a couple of problems with this - I would like a photo organiser/manager that can display Nikon NEF, .psd and .jpg files. Also I'm relying on always being able to read .psd files into the future so I'm wondering about creating a .tiff file and saving it as a sort of archive copy.

Look at PhotoMechanic!

They will announce a catalogue option for their browser when it is ripe!?

 

[d mihel]

While recovering blown-out sky PN 1.1.2b (windows) generates strange lighter color halos around objects like trees, buildings, everything that expands over the horizon line and normally should be surrounded with homogenius color. It looks very unnatural

 

[miketuthill]

d mihel wrote:

While recovering blown-out sky PN 1.1.2b (windows) generates strange lighter color halos around objects like trees, buildings, everything that expands over the horizon line and normally should be surrounded with homogenius color. It looks very unnatural

You probably need to go to the Color Correction and lower the strength of the Color Recovery.

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[d mihel]

miketuthill wrote:

You probably need to go to the Color Correction and lower the strength of the Color Recovery.

 

[miketuthill]

d mihel wrote:

miketuthill wrote:

You probably need to go to the Color Correction and lower the strength of the Color Recovery.

 

[exdeejjjaaaa]

photodgm wrote:

There are a couple of problems with this - I would like a photo organiser/manager that can display Nikon NEF, .psd and .jpg files.

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[d mihel]

Did anyone use PN to convert RAWs from Canon 70d? PN 1.2.1 makes severe mistakes in white balance, while processing such RAWs.

 

[miketuthill]

Did anyone use PN to convert RAWs from Canon 70d? PN 1.2.1 makes severe mistakes in white balance, while processing such RAWs.

Have you communicated this to the developer?

 

[Robgo2]

Did anyone use PN to convert RAWs from Canon 70d? PN 1.2.1 makes severe mistakes in white balance, while processing such RAWs.

Have you communicated this to the developer?

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Yes, definitely contact Picture Code, so that they can confirm that there is a problem (or that there is not). If there is, they will be happy to fix it. I had a similar issue with WB for my Pentax K-5. The PN developers discovered that the program was not reading the camera's WB data properly, and they corrected it in the succeeding update.

Rob