Workflow and the SPP?

[Scottelly]

Hey Jeffry, you can set SPP to use defaut, auto, or previous settings, rather than just the previous settings you used on the last image (which is what it sounds like is happening to your images). This is done in Preferences, which can be found under File in the file browsing window (not the image editing/adjustments window). You need to go to the middle section of the Preferences window, and select what you want under "Applicable adjustment setting (X3F/DNG)."


This is the Preferences window.

Hi Scott,

Thanks!

Is there a way to make SPP use the setting that have already been applied to an image? Is that the meaning of default or auto?

It seems once you have the settings for an image figured out and saved to the raw file, you can never see them again.

I am pretty sure selecting "Apply default (X3F/DNG) settings" is going to get you what you want Jeffry. I always use previous settings, because I normally want the same adjustments applied to the next image I move to. (Normally I shoot several shots with the same camera and lens settings, so once I have made an adjustment it is almost exactly right for the next shot too, unless that next shot is totally different, which happens maybe 1/4 of the time or less. Then I just click reset, and I get back to default settings (which is where the sliders are in the middle.) The thing is I change all sorts of stuff, like exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, X3F Fill Light, and more, so I don't want to have to make all those changes again for each photo. Sometimes, even from one scene to another, there is very little change necessary, so it's better for me to just keep the previous settings even then, and I can just make a small adjustment to one or two settings.

Just so you know, I don't have a bunch of saved setting. I don't save my settings, because every set of photos can be so different, and I don't have a particular look that I try to create for certain images (i.e. a "portrait look" and a "landscape look"). I do sometimes use the different color modes, and that is enough "looks" for me, so I don't need to save any particular set of settings. That said, there have been times when I decided to save the settings for a photo, because I wanted to be able to apply them to another photo or set of photos (i.e. an extra contrasty look, when trying to get a Draganized look, or something like that). Also, I have saved a couple of "looks" in the past, but lately (over the past few years), I haven't saved any settings in SPP (or any other programs). I customize the layout of SPP, when I install it on a computer, but other than that I don't seem to do much saving of specific settings. I'm not the World's greatest post-processing guru though, so maybe you should take whatever I say with quite a few grains of salt.

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[xpatUSA]

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Another issue is recording the final adjustments with the image. This is something LrC does by default. SPP by contrast uses whatever adjustments you have set from the last picture you edited. (Even apparently if you save the adjustments to the RAW?)

I just opened an X3F in SPP 5, played with the sliders, and saved it as a JPEG.

Then opened both in XnView MP.

In the Browser View, both icons showed and the slider setting were visible under the ExifTool tab after scrolling down ... zero for the X3F and what I had set for the JPEG.

As if that were not enough, it was able to "open" the DP1s X3F by displaying the embedded JPEG!

XnView can also enter an Embedded Comment such as a Model's name and later search your entire disk based on that name.

In other words Jeffry, XnView MP can do everything that is missing from your current workflow, apparently ...

 

[Jeffry7]

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Another issue is recording the final adjustments with the image. This is something LrC does by default. SPP by contrast uses whatever adjustments you have set from the last picture you edited. (Even apparently if you save the adjustments to the RAW?)

I just opened an X3F in SPP 5, played with the sliders, and saved it as a JPEG.

Then opened both in XnView MP.

In the Browser View, both icons showed and the slider setting were visible under the ExifTool tab after scrolling down ... zero for the X3F and what I had set for the JPEG.

As if that were not enough, it was able to "open" the DP1s X3F by displaying the embedded JPEG!

XnView can also enter an Embedded Comment such as a Model's name and later search your entire disk based on that name.

In other words Jeffry, XnView MP can do everything that is missing from your current workflow, apparently ...

I have been playing with XnView at home. I like the IPTC fields it has. I can use one of those to include the model's Instagram handle. (They are all on Instagram apparently.) This is in addition to the Model's name.

Nice tool so far. Better than editing with ExifToolGUI in my opinion.

I haven't seen it in XnView, but I did see the SPP adjustments in the EXIF data like you pointed out. Nice one! That definitely gives me piece of mind that I can recreate an edit if I care to in X number of years.

I think you are right. XnView plugs up some of the holes I was missing from LrC work flow. Thanks!

 

[xpatUSA]

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Another issue is recording the final adjustments with the image. This is something LrC does by default. SPP by contrast uses whatever adjustments you have set from the last picture you edited. (Even apparently if you save the adjustments to the RAW?)

I just opened an X3F in SPP 5, played with the sliders, and saved it as a JPEG.

Then opened both in XnView MP.

In the Browser View, both icons showed and the slider setting were visible under the ExifTool tab after scrolling down ... zero for the X3F and what I had set for the JPEG.

As if that were not enough, it was able to "open" the DP1s X3F by displaying the embedded JPEG!

XnView can also enter an Embedded Comment such as a Model's name and later search your entire disk based on that name.

In other words Jeffry, XnView MP can do everything that is missing from your current workflow, apparently ...

I have been playing with XnView at home. I like the IPTC fields it has. I can use one of those to include the model's Instagram handle. (They are all on Instagram apparently.) This is in addition to the Model's name.

Nice tool so far. Better than editing with ExifToolGUI in my opinion.

I haven't seen it in XnView, but I did see the SPP adjustments in the EXIF data like you pointed out.

In the Browser View, select the image then click on the ExifTool tab below then scroll down quite a bit.

I think you are right. XnView plugs up some of the holes I was missing from LrC work flow. Thanks!

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