DxO Optics and Photoshop

[Dervast]

Hi there,

I am trying to find a workflow between DxO optics and photoshop. I like the noise removal DxO can do but I am still having problems how to work later on in photoshop. My major problem is that typically I start in photoshop in camera raw where I do the basic editing that now I loose If I work with the raw files in DxO and take a jpeg (I feel constrained in photoshop and the jpeg).

Could you please provide some help?

Regards

A

 

[ajscullard]

I batch-process raw files using one of presets in DxO and generate 16-bit TIFFs. I then open the TIFFs in ACR (from Bridge) to work in Ps.

That way I get the benefit of optical correction and noise processing in DxO and all the options in ACR and layers in Ps.

After processing to a final image TIFF file from Ps, I delete the intermediate DxO TIFFs.

 

[tom60634]

Hi there,

I am trying to find a workflow between DxO optics and photoshop. I like the noise removal DxO can do but I am still having problems how to work later on in photoshop. My major problem is that typically I start in photoshop in camera raw where I do the basic editing that now I loose If I work with the raw files in DxO and take a jpeg (I feel constrained in photoshop and the jpeg).

Could you please provide some help?

Regards

A

1. Develop the raw file in DxO 9. Noise Reduction, Distortion removal, White Balance, Exposure Compensation, DxO Lens Softness, Chromatic aberration etc. etc..

2. Click the Export to application panel and choose the file format (tiff or jpg, 8 or 16bit) and application Photoshop or others to open the file.

3. When the file opens in Photoshop, do whatever pixel editing you deem necessary, then perform a save or save as operation as needed.

You can set up Photoshop to open all tiffs and/or jpegs in Adobe Camera Raw.

If you have Photoshop CC this should not be necessary as you would have the Camera Raw Filter to use if you find that Camera Raw can better perform an edit.

 

[Joseph Mama]

In a semi-related note, I would recommend using Photoshop or similar to go thru and weed out the junk first.

DXO is slow as heck and takes forever to go thru pictures if you are like me and took 200 pics and only wind up keeping like 30 of them. Particularly when in burst mode to capture the kids.

I use paintshoppro to run thru them and rate 5 stars to the ones I think I will want to process. Then at the end, sort by rating, delete the junk. THEN, go to DXO and go thru and do the RAW adjustments.

I then export to JPG as Ive done all the raw-specific stuff. Based on studies, resaving a 95% quality jpg theoretically degrades quality but there was no noticable difference after hundreds of resaves. You could easily export to TIFF or whatevr else too.

 

[Dervast]

Hi

thanks a lot for all the nice answers you gave few more questions though:

1. What does the tiff file offers compared to the jpeg?

2. How to launch from photoshop a tiff file from camera raw? Typically I use camera raw after dropiing my raw files to the photoshop.

Regards

Alex

 

[ajscullard]

1. TIFF has 16-bit uncompressed data, JPEG is only 8-bit and has been compressed. If you need info on file formats, use Google or a similar search engine.

2. If you're using Bridge to preview files, right-click on the image and select "open in Camera Raw".

 

[AlphaTikal]

If you use DxO to convert your raw files into tiff images, then you dont need adobe raw converter. And tiff is better suited for editing than jpeg, as it contains more data and is not compressed.
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[Dervast]

Hi

so if I understand it right a tiff file is quite alike to raw file as it contains a lot of information per pixel.

How can I open camera raw within photoshop and not from bridge? IF I understand it right working with tiffs in camera raw should have the same capabilities with the raw files.

Alex

 

[AlphaTikal]

No, you should read some pages with better explanation than I can do. TIFF is not RAW like. There is nothing else like a RAW file, as it is not an image. You can think of base information without the pixels like you know. This is an incomplete process to an image with pixels. You have to complete the process with an RAW converter, to get the pixels like an JPEG file. There are so many common image file formats like JPEG, but there are differences. JPEG is a lossy format and highly compressed. A TIFF have much much more information stored than a JPEG and is better for working on.

Basically said:

1. RAW is a mathematical file, with data before formed to an image. The process is not completed and the pixels have to be calculated in an RAW converter.
2. TIFF is an image file with pixels and that is what you know and can work with any image editor (which supports TIFF). It is not lossy and contains very much data to work with.
3. JPEG is similar to TIFF, besides all data needed to work with are discarded. Only the data needed to display on screen is saved in it. Any work at the file will decrease the quality. Also it is very much compressed. Good enough to share and publish.

For better explanation, look at other sites. Also I don't use Adobe products, so I cannot answer your questions. I even don't have a Mac or Windows machine.

 

[ajscullard]

How to open TIFFs in ACR in Photoshop:

There are a lot of things in Photoshop that are not intuitive or easy find, but you will learn a lot if you use Google to find videos and tutorials about specific Photoshop issues.

I just did that and got a whole load of items about how to open TIFFs in Ps. Basically, go into Bridge at least once and go to Edit > Camera Raw Preferences and, at the bottom of the page, change the JPEG and TIFF Handling option to "automatically open all supported JPEGs" and do the same with TIFFs.

Now when you open any JPEG or TIFF file in Ps, it will automatically open in Camera Raw.