wow I have been reading up on Nik. ColourFX alone took me an hour to work through the intro on the DXO site. I can see why this was so popular for so long - it would just radically transform and expedite workflow for many people. E.g wedding photographers - it seems to be targetted at a professional level.
So to keep my workflow efficient though - each time I create a new TIFF that's what another 100MB or so - that will add up real fast unless I manage this properly. It's a shame it can't just work with DNG files directly like Lightroom does but perhaps that's just not technically possible. So I assume by working through the
recommended workflow process, one can work through with the one TIFF file all along - hoping that they don't make a irreversible destructive edit along the way and have to start over from the DNG (I always convert to DNG in LR now - I don't see the point of keeping proprietary RAW files).
This suite is just insane, there is so much to it. For example - Selective Re-colourisation. I once spent days trying to work that out with Lightroom and still could not get it right. This does it out of the box.
I really hope development of this suite continues. I am not sure merging in to Adobe is a good idea though. Almost always - corporate buy-outs destroy the acquired operation. They say they won't meddle, then they do because shareholders demand more return, then everything gets blended in or trashed until ultimately it dies. And this has happened once already with Google. So fingers crossed DXO continue investing in this product.
It's pretty amazing and I can see how it could provide a 'competitive advantage' to photographers if leveraged well.
