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BokehBeauty wrote:
Hi Ayoul, thank you for your tour through DxO PL5. I use DxO for DeepPrime, lens sharpening, and the huge selection of color profiles whether other cameras (Leica M9, Nikon D3x) or negative film Fuji Pro 400H. But the final edit I do in LRC.
On the color profile selection, I struggle however, when I export from DxO into LRC as dng file. I don’t know what color profile I should then use in LRC. Any advice, or stay away from dng and go with tif?
Hard to make the choice.
I think that a linear DNG file will retain more information in the highlights and shadows, compared to a tiff. But for sure, by exporting in DNG, you lose any color profile used in DXO. And if you like them, like I do, it's a pity.
You can :
1. Adapt your editing to do everything inside DXO. I did a few weddings using only DXO but the few shortcomings in the interface are frustrating. In the end, I was too slow.
2. Make all the steps you're comfortable with in DXO, export in tiff, then finish in LR. White balance and exposure adjustments really should be done in DXO and not in LR, otherwise the modifications won't look very natural if they're done on a tiff file in LR. I did that as well, using C1 and not LR to finish the tiff files, but it's the same point. It's also slow. I had to come back in DXO a lot of time to modify exposure and WB adjustments and it's honnestly not very practical.
3. Give up on the color rendering of DXO, and do everything inside LR/C1 using a denoised DNG. Efficient and fast (except the frustration of giving up on colors). There are a huge amount of DNG profiles and presets available for LR, you can probably find a lot of interesting stuffs by digging a little bit.
Personnaly, I used a different path. I used a personnal ICC neutral color profile, and 3D Lut creator, which is a VERY powerful tool, to mimic the Astia rendering of DXO on top of that ICC profile. The results are very, very close. I have now the colors of DXO inside Capture One.
I cull my files inside FastRawViewer, open them in DXO, export the selected files in DNG using Deep Prime and do everything else in Capture One using this personal profile.
If you don't have thousands of files to cull and edit per week, 1 and 2 are acceptable. If you shoot and edit a lot, I don't recommand them.
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