IanYorke

People are trying to help  If you could put an example raw on Dropbox then others can open the file in ON1 or other software and replicate your results and perhaps show how to improve the result. Ian

NIK technology is patented. Ian

It says Nikon P1000 camera in your profile.  If so and you are using ON1 Raw 2019 it does not apply any sharpening by default or noise reduction.  LR applies noise reduction by default. I opened a ...

Are you shooting in raw? Ian

Thanks. Ian

Thanks. Ian

Yes you can refine gradient masks with the erase brush for example.  The original NIK plugin control points do no allow direct refinement of the mask with a brush but I believe this is on the DXO ...

Why is this? Ian

Try downloading a free 30 day trial of DXO-PL 2. DXO profile the cameras and lenses that they support in their optical labs (it's their day job)  This enables them to provide superior lens ...

Matt Kloskowski has a video explaining how the new Enhance function works. Underwhelming would be a reasonable takeaway from this video YMMV. https://youtu.be/LnHmiJc_b1w Ian

DXO is a raw processor with good local adjustment capabilities. It can be used as a plugin with LR.   It has limited DAM capabilities and no map functionality.  If you need these then DXO will not ...

If you don't want to go through the long and arduous learning curve involved with PS then the NIK collection will take you a long way with your editing. The advantage of NIK is really in the use of ...

Re MS: Office 365 Home gives you 5 installs and 1Tb of cloud storage for each person.  Or 5Tb for you under different MS accounts.  Cheapest way to buy Cloud storage and just ignore Office.  Don't ...

Just a reference data point for anyone looking at getting a new SD card for the Olympus EM1-ii.  Tested 2 cards in slot 1 (UHS-ii compatible) shooting raw , manual focus 1000 @F2.8, and 15fps: Sand ...

A linear demosaiced file is part of the dng spec. Ian

Agree with don't be afra to use high ISO. You can always download a trial of DXO - PL 2 to develop the raws. It's PRIME noise reduction really excels Don't overexpose the highlights  Again DXO-PL 2 ...

Martin Bailey has put up a short video showing the new features of C1Pro V12. Might be useful for V10/11 C1Pro users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGyMvE5UsfU Ian

Interesting post for me as I had not looked at Focus Merging just knew AP had the function and it looked simple.  Most focus Merging seems to be used for macro work which I don't do. I have now had ...

Win 10 19H1 will allow Home to delay updates for a short time - around 1 week I think. Ian

You can like me use the Spyder with Display Cal which is open source software. https://displaycal.net/ Ian