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Yes, but it's a bit tedious, plugins or actions make it a lot more straightforward, and both are (or were) readily available. Some of the PS alternatives, I think have luminosity masks built in and ...

I've just googled "luminosity masks photoshop" and come across hundreds of tutorials on making luminosity masks without a plugin, as well as using plugins. Including this one from Greg Benz, that ...

Indeed, as I said it seems to work fine for many people. Cheers, Graham

Capture One and Photoshop, occasionally Lightroom and DXO (but only for prime noise reduction)

The C1 catalogue is a bit of a mystery for at the same time as people were saying it couldn't cope with 10,000 images others were happy with 100,000 plus images. At least one person said they were ...

Mmmm, I have had Sharpen and DeNoise for a few years, so just to counterbalance your bad experiences. I have had rapid and helpful responses to my emails (in English), including a free upgrade to ...

I can' directly help, as I don't use any film emulations, but why not google "favourite film for landscape" or best "film for landscape" etc.  Or maybe "favorite" as it might yield more hits than ...

I doubt this thread will add any enlightenment, beyond the "all sorts of threads" you have already read.  However... I use Capture One Pro and Photoshop. No idea if its the "best" as other options ...

When you set up where you want C1 to save the processed files, selecting "image folder" will save the output file beside the original raw. You can set this up as the default output folder for all ...

You can round trip to PS from C1, by using the "edit with" option available by right clicking on an image in C1. C1 then saves the edited RAW as a TIFF or PSD (more options available as a PSD, e.g. ...

You could try this video (not actually watched this but found while searching for the C1 info on dealing with Haze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJnOm9Jtkcs Or this written tutorial https://alph ...

Just give it time. Having recently retired and no longer have students to annoy, I am nurturing my grumpy old man skills, and may well deliberately start to knowingly disagree with you just to be ...

DXO said that they had only "extensively" rewritten parts of the code to fix bugs, make it more (fully) compatible with modern OSs and provide a foundation for future upgrades. They didn't say they ...

Ah yes, I understand, I do just as you describe and redraw at different lengths and angles A difficult decision, and one I have avoided by keeping my sub for LR/PS and keeping C1 up to date, but I ...

We are possibly talking about different subtleties, but if you want to change the size of the gradient on a gradient layer, you just redraw it at a different size or direction. Additionally, if you ...

Ian's answer is more specific and detailed than mine, but I would like to add this link to his http://alexonraw.com/capture-one-free-guide-1/ This is a very useful (downloadable) get you started ...

I have never found it an issue, but the cropping would seem inevitable when correcting the distortion and C1 allows you to adjust the amount of correction and to crop outside the image. At least ...

Not familiar with ACDSee, but it looks as if its Windows only. Interesting that they actually market it as a DAM. NeoFinder (AbeMeda) lacks a bit of refinement, but I've found it very fast and ...

Not sure about a DAM for $30, but you can certainly add an effective browser for $30 or even free. But Neofinder (or the Windows equivalent, AbeMeda) is available at $40. Actually, I see that for ...

Yes, this was the comment I was referencing, I didn't see the second tweet. but Serif also joined a thread here on DPReview, earlier this year, to say amongst other things that although they ...