Clee01 and Johan,
There seems to be a difference of opinion. Can you discuss further, for the benefit of everyone who reads this thread.
Phil [who is NOT trolling here]
Actually the only difference of opinion is when to call the external editor. My preference would be to ALWAYS perform LR edits before exporting to an external editor.
There are several reason for this:
When converting RAW to RGB, it is not possible to get to RGB without applying SOME develop settings like WB, tone adjustments, sharpening and minimal noise reduction. Having done that, it would be not possible to send an unedited RGB image to the third party editor like DeNoise.
The other option and the only one that meets Johan’s requirement to edit in LrC after DeNoise, would be to send the RAW file to DeNoise. And then edits the by LR on the finished DeNoise TIFF.
I have always maintained that LrC should get every advantage to maximize its editing capability on the file before calling an external editor. Whether you apply LRs NR before the external editor is subjective and for this I could go either way. Personally, I have seen little difference in sending a file to DeNoise that has has LrC NR already applied.
Another reason to work with the RAW file to its maximum is that the edit adjustment sliders are different for RGB files and RAW files. One big example is WB. WB can be fine tuned while working with the RAW data. When converted to RGB, the WB is fixed and further adjustments are relative to the fixed WB set when converted to RGB.
I find having to manage intermediate TIFFs in the LR catalog in addition to the original RAW file to be troublesome . For this reason I avoid external editors as much as possible
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