jerry12953
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2010
- Messages
- 128
- Location
- mid-wales, UK
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Lightroom Version Number
- 6.14
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the best forum to post this question but I'll fire away anyway.
I've been a LR user since v3 (I think) so I know my way around it reasonably well. I'm still on v6.14 as I'm unhappy about the subscription model. I always knew I would have to move from Adobe in time and last autumn took a punt on DXO Photolab. Browsing round the web I came across a guy called who has a Youtube channel and website mainly related to photo-editing. "Lenscraft".
Anyway in a couple of his videos and posts he explains how you can use Photolab as a plug-in to Lightroom to take advantage of PL's better (he reckons) raw conversions, sharpening, and noise reduction. The route is as follows. You upload the raw file to LR, export to PL immediately, take advantage of the latter's "better" pre-processing capabilities, then return the file to LR as a dng to continue processing. This would suit me very well for the time being until I get to grips with a complete changeover from LR to PL.
And here at last is my point. Doesn't LR process the RAW file in some way as soon as it is uploaded? For example it is immediately visible with a sharpening value of +25 applied.
Would appreciate some thoughts on this. Thanks.
I'm not sure if this is the best forum to post this question but I'll fire away anyway.
I've been a LR user since v3 (I think) so I know my way around it reasonably well. I'm still on v6.14 as I'm unhappy about the subscription model. I always knew I would have to move from Adobe in time and last autumn took a punt on DXO Photolab. Browsing round the web I came across a guy called who has a Youtube channel and website mainly related to photo-editing. "Lenscraft".
Anyway in a couple of his videos and posts he explains how you can use Photolab as a plug-in to Lightroom to take advantage of PL's better (he reckons) raw conversions, sharpening, and noise reduction. The route is as follows. You upload the raw file to LR, export to PL immediately, take advantage of the latter's "better" pre-processing capabilities, then return the file to LR as a dng to continue processing. This would suit me very well for the time being until I get to grips with a complete changeover from LR to PL.
And here at last is my point. Doesn't LR process the RAW file in some way as soon as it is uploaded? For example it is immediately visible with a sharpening value of +25 applied.
Would appreciate some thoughts on this. Thanks.