Feature Requeset: Hot pixels and NR
I'm a full-time wedding photographer with 3 5D's between myself and my assistant and I am completely sold out for C1. I hate lightroom, I tell all my friends and FB/Twitter followers how great it is all the time. So, with that said, there are three things that I REALLY wish were fixed:
1. At about ISO 800 and up I start to see white dots (hot pixels I think) and it gets out of control at 1600-3200. Looks like someone spilled salt on the images sometimes. My only solution is to run the images through DXO's noise reduction with everything turned to zero, somehow it seems to map out the dead pixels even on TIFFs. I really hate DXO, it's a pain to go there. So, map out hot pixels please!
2. The noise reduction in C1 is pretty poor, I always just turn it off completely. Which, by the way, is a process I have to do separately because even though my defaults are set to 0, unless I move them manually or with a batch lift and stamp, NR (and sharpening) still appears on the photos. The color noise reduction in C1 particularly does weird things with reds and the luminance just smears everything but doesn't really help with banding, hot pixels or grain. I've started using Nik's Dfine for all NR if I must because it fixes everything but hot pixels while still looking pretty natural. I like the way it looks but it's added more time to my workflow that I'd rather just do in C1.
3. I absolutely love the color editor and use it a ton, but I wish it was a little more precise sometimes, it's very touchy and hard to dial in. Also, it's a pain that I can't stack presets on top of each other. Like if I fixed a weird skin tone but then realize I want to use my preset for more desaturated greens, I can't use the preset without loosing my skin tone fix.
And... I'll just throw this out there... a dodge/burn tool that could be used to pull back blown highlights (the one thing lightroom has that I envy) would pretty much make my year!
Thanks, btw for the quick 10.6 update, you guys rock!
1. At about ISO 800 and up I start to see white dots (hot pixels I think) and it gets out of control at 1600-3200. Looks like someone spilled salt on the images sometimes. My only solution is to run the images through DXO's noise reduction with everything turned to zero, somehow it seems to map out the dead pixels even on TIFFs. I really hate DXO, it's a pain to go there. So, map out hot pixels please!
2. The noise reduction in C1 is pretty poor, I always just turn it off completely. Which, by the way, is a process I have to do separately because even though my defaults are set to 0, unless I move them manually or with a batch lift and stamp, NR (and sharpening) still appears on the photos. The color noise reduction in C1 particularly does weird things with reds and the luminance just smears everything but doesn't really help with banding, hot pixels or grain. I've started using Nik's Dfine for all NR if I must because it fixes everything but hot pixels while still looking pretty natural. I like the way it looks but it's added more time to my workflow that I'd rather just do in C1.
3. I absolutely love the color editor and use it a ton, but I wish it was a little more precise sometimes, it's very touchy and hard to dial in. Also, it's a pain that I can't stack presets on top of each other. Like if I fixed a weird skin tone but then realize I want to use my preset for more desaturated greens, I can't use the preset without loosing my skin tone fix.
And... I'll just throw this out there... a dodge/burn tool that could be used to pull back blown highlights (the one thing lightroom has that I envy) would pretty much make my year!
Thanks, btw for the quick 10.6 update, you guys rock!
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