cropping out bad areas of the film, straightening horizons, etc. I then use P元 for the final cleanup - removal of dust & dirt, noise reduction, some exposure correction. I purchased an Epson V600 for the project (and to replace my failing Canon LIDE 200 scanner), and use Espon's included Epson Scan software for the initial scan to a 48-bit color, 2400dpi uncompressed TIFF file. While I purchased PhotoLab initially just as a replacement for Lightroom to process my Canon RAW files, I have been using it the past few weeks on another project - scanning and digitizing my late father's 35mm slides. I did purchase Viewpoint 3, but to be honest I have never delved into it. ![]() I own the Elite version, and find the Clearview Plus tool invaluable for my landscape photos. While some may think it is primarily film emulation software, it is so much more, adding a number of useful tools to the PhotoLab feature set. And finally there is DXO's FilmPack 5 Elite. I also suggest the purchase of Viewpoint 3 which is both a standalone and PhotoLab plug-in perspective tool. The Elite version has everything the Essential version has plus their best in class PRIME noise reduction, ClearView Plus haze removal and clarity tool, and a fully configurable interface. If you prefer a stronger rendering, simply adjust one image to how you like and then save the adjustments as a custom preset, which you can then apply to future images.I strongly recommend that anyone interested in getting the best that PhotoLab has to offer should consider purchasing the more expensive Elite version rather the the Essential version. Why you see stronger colours in the jpeg is because they have been “compressed” from 16,384 levels into only 256 levels, losing a lot of subtlety and detail on the way. This essentially means that jpeg images can only render 256 different levels of tonality or colour, whereas a 14-bit RAW image can have 16,384. Jpeg images are limited to 8-bits whereas a RAW image can be 12 or 14-bits. PhotoLab, or other RAW software, is not creating different colours, it is simply stripping out the processing that your camera did to the image to create a jpeg preview that you can see on the back of the camera or Windows explorer. ![]() I tryed about every possible option (from testing every photolab color rendering settings, to adjusting any other parameter) but I can’t get those colors back. Nikon codec result ?.Ģ - Is there a way, or what would be ideally needed, to keep them because most of the time they are way more realist and more pleasing than the more saturated and contrasted ones “created” by photolab (photolab is not the only one to “create” them). I know Photolab converts colors in Adobe rgb as working color space, and displays them in either sRGB or Adobe RGB (set by user in preferences) and I understand this process.ġ - What are really those first colors ? I need to be sure what they are. ![]() I think windows uses a nikon Codec for creating its icons from NEF. Those first colors seems to be exactly the same as those I see in windows explorer (when set to Icon and not list of course). Then, few seconds later, those colors change (generaly a lot), and those new colors become the color that photolab keeps forever (If I don’t make any editing). When I look a new image for the first time (I mean when I click on it in the image brower for the first time), this image opens in Photolab main window with some colors. I use photolab4 with NEF nikon format on 2 different windows 10 workstations (different graphic chips and brand so graphic card seems obviously irrelevant here).
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