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In his article, he compared Lightroom to Alien Skin’s Exposure X3. A couple of weeks ago, Spencer wrote the first article of our “Lightroom Classic vs.

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Cripes it has a lot of detail.This is an in-depth review of the Alien Skin Exposure X3 software for culling, managing and post-processing images. I wasn't expecting to have to change my approach so much with the new camera.

It would be interesting to try sharpening with Nik after a raw conversion with PhotoNinja or Iridient. So if I want to use the Nik software I will leave out the LR step, and probably knock the Nik step back 20% for the papers I use for printing.

The result is not crunchy or over the top, but sharper than I want for the way I see the world in my photographs. The LR values are a little arbitrary, but get me in the ballpark. I think I'm getting the sharpest result with:Īmount 20, Radius. This isn't working in LR 6 with the X-T2 files. One problem for me is that in the past I would take the amount slider in LR right up to see the effect of the other parameters, then drop it down again. That's not a bad thing if we don't want our processing to look the same as everyone else's. With that caveat it seems to me that at this level, we are discussing whether we are looking for sharpness or detail, and how we want to draw the eye of the viewer, so there is a large subjective component to the workflow we settle on. I have found a foliage image, so now have experience with two photos as against your 3,000+. This has been a useful exercise, thank you for starting the thread. I print from Lr so output sharpening is done there in the Print Module. I've been quite satisfied with that approach so far. If it's an image important to me I start by zeroing out Lr sharpening then I 'Edit In' PS and apply Nik Sharpener as depicted in the video for performing capture and creative sharpening on layers. I save that for only those images I think are truly worthy of the effort. What turns black while holding the Option/Alt key will not be sharpened.Īs you say, I certainly don't apply Nik Sharpener to every X-T2 RAF file I have. The Nik Sharpener follows this concept workflow.Īs you were saying, masking in Lr sharpening enables sharpening of a reduced portion of the image. I've long followed Bruce Fraser's concept of capture, creative and output sharpening.

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That's what drove me to seriously consider what some were saying about Nik Sharpener Pro and RAF files. After looking at 3,000+ X-T2 files I was ready to think outside the Lr box. John, I've changed my defaults setting so often in Lr for my X-T2 files that I was getting quite frustrated. And all to do with the preferred 'look' of the manufacturer. And color because the fact that one may find colors from a manufacturer more pleasing than another's have very little or nothing to do with sharpness. AA because most new 24MP APS-C cameras over the last couple of years do not have them. I would take AA and color out of the equation. Interesting though, I'll keep thinking about it. I don't have personal experience to say either way but if it were so, it could be because the pseudo-random layout could make Nyquist less clear cut in the dominant green channel - although intuitively I would think that what counts for the perception of sharpness is the luminance/luma channel which in the end goes back to pixel pitch. Your question about whether X-Trans lends itself to better deconvolution than Bayer is interesting. Hi Ron, thanks for the link, I use Nik's Sharpener Pro Raw Presharpener often and like its deconvolution implementation for capture sharpening (although on Nikon gear, not Fuji). My impression is that with the 50% increase in resolution over the X-T1 it's a different ball game with regards to sharpening and color/tonal contrasts. This is a result of my going through a few thousand X-T2 files trying to find the optimum approach. I do like the Fuji film emulations though and the latest Lightroom profiles for the films seem to have improved.

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My understanding is that the X-Trans array may produce better color but I have no idea how to quantify that. Like you I see far few sharpening artifacts with Nik Sharpener than the others I've used on RAF files. I'm not sure how it compares to Bayer sensors without an AA filter though. I'm just guessing that the lack of an AA filter helps the X-Trans sensors a bunch.

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I doubt he wrote any code but he was involved with the effort and teaching at Nik, Google and I think other photography software companies. I think Dan Hughes graduated from RIT and may still be an associate professor there. I'm sure that just about everyone involved with programming sharpening algorithms and workflows is aware of Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe's work. Yes, multi-pass sharpening is just another name for something we all take for granted these day.

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