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I've seen this bit contested by some but haven't tested it for myself. If you do your heavy lifting of tones and colours in raw then I see no problem with doing the finishing touches in the 8-bit ...

OK, so this one does indeed go in the direction of beauty -- you applied contouring (macro D/B) maybe a little much? The nose highlight might be a bit hot and the left cheek shadow changes the ...

Well, it does, but like the Frequency Separation technique, it is a time-saver if you need it. Hardcore retouchers (say they) use Dodging/Burning only (and hard-edged clone stamp) , but that does ...

The Surface Blur can be great but if you work in the 16-bit mode it can be sluggish when rendering the preview. The Median filter works well.

Gaussian can be problematic around the face edges (if the background contrasts a lot with the face) and around the lip area (if the subject is wearing bright lipstick).

Here's my version: I took the above image and ran it through Portrait Pro 15 with my own basic preset. The only thing I had to do manually was correcting some automatic skin-detection mask around ...

Which blurring method do you use to create the Low Frequency layer? Gaussian, Surface or Median?

With the Adobe RGB profile, right? Does the latest version of DxO allow you to apply a post-resize sharpening routine? When I tested this with v.9 there was none, and also there were artefacting ...

Some raw converters allow you to see both, e.g. RawTherapee . In darktable you can view the "raw overexposure warning", which is also useful. Of course you can use Iliah's FastRawViewer or ...

Yes, RT uses the floating point engine . Darktable is another converter that does this as well. PhotoFlow , too. Affinity Photo allows you to maintain the floating point calculations even after the ...

Look at darktable .

PhaseOne maintain that they have to have the camera in house for the profiling to take place, shooting their own profiling targets.

For free, localized raw development/editing you could try darktable . Other than that, there is a host of commercial raw converters that you could use in tandem with (or instead of) PSE: LR, C1, ...

Try the free DisplayCal software.

But you can open an image in PSE in the 16-bit mode and then invoke something like Nik Viveza or ColorFX (or NR, or localized sharpening) and perform localized edits on that layer, using the Nik ...

An example that I've noticed: the Adobe CMS (ACE) renders the contrast differently than LittleCMS in the deepest shadows but it's fairly subtle. Well, the Windows Photo Viewer is colour-managed (re ...

Cool -- finally a layer-driven raw converter that supports blending modes and the blend if functionality, masking, etc. Well, there's LightZone but dt is more powerful and comprehensive.

Neither an lcp lens profile nor a dcp camera profile corrects for a lens colour cast that is not uniform across the frame (e.g. chroma vignetting). In order to correct for that you need to perform ...

Adobe DNG Profile Editor, Lumariver/Dcamprof, dcptool, etc.

Thanks for sharing both the profiles and the workflow -- it looks quite involved so kudos to you for sharing. I don't use the camera so I can't give you any feedback with files of my own, but ...