Comparing LR/Photo Ninja workflow
Still trying to work out the best way to get C1 RAW processing without losing all the other advantages of Lightroom...
Photo Ninja has a very cunning option: you can tell it, when asked to load a TIFF, to load the equivalent RAW file if found.
So from LR, you can set it up as an external editor. With a quick keystroke, LR creates a TIFF, passes it to Photo Ninja, which ignores it and loads the RAW original. You can then edit that and output a TIFF and go back to LR, which loads it just as if the original TIFF had been edited.
I know C1 isn't really set up for editing individual images that way, but I'd certainly use it if it could do this...
What do others think?
Photo Ninja has a very cunning option: you can tell it, when asked to load a TIFF, to load the equivalent RAW file if found.
So from LR, you can set it up as an external editor. With a quick keystroke, LR creates a TIFF, passes it to Photo Ninja, which ignores it and loads the RAW original. You can then edit that and output a TIFF and go back to LR, which loads it just as if the original TIFF had been edited.
I know C1 isn't really set up for editing individual images that way, but I'd certainly use it if it could do this...
What do others think?
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If you want to do that you can (export the raw file from Lr to CO and get back a Tiff into LR).
I was doing that before CO8, now I do not need any more.0 -
Thanks Ario, but I think that's rather a long-winded process, isn't it?
The nice thing about the Photo Ninja way is that (even though it's a little bit of a hack), it's very convenient... just a few clicks.
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The most streamlined workflow I know of is offered by the DxO Optics Pro 10/Lightroom combination.
1. Direct Lightroom to open a raw image in DOP10, and it immediately becomes available for adjustment in DOP10.
2. When done doing adjustments in DOP10, tell DOP10 to export the image to Lightroom: DOP10 creates a RGB file as per user choice, and makes it available in Lightroom. Its' immediately available for adjustment in LR, the import process being dealt with automatically by DOP10.
Cheers,
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Thanks Ario, but I think that's rather a long-winded process, isn't it?
The nice thing about the Photo Ninja way is that (even though it's a little bit of a hack), it's very convenient... just a few clicks.
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Not really, you can export the raw file from the Lr catalog into CO using for instance the "opendirectly" plug-in and than bring back to the Lr catalog the files edited in CO using the auto import function of Lr. Alternatively you can export the edited files frm CO into the same image folder where the raws are and then re-sync that folder from inside Lr.0 -
Ah - thanks - yes, I was just coming to that conclusion, and had worked out a pretty nice workflow.
But I didn't know about 'Open Directly' - thanks - that makes it even neater!0
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