Tell me how you use the Exposure, recovery and Brightness sliders together
I used to always use LR 2.3 until recently trying other raw converters. I now use Nx2-I find the highlight and shadow recovery is in a different league. Nx2 is so much smoother in both of these areas, I don\'t like how it affects skin tones in LR. The most obvious is with skies and higher iso\'s.
I generally tweak the exposure -1/3 of a stop, then alt+recovery slider, see how far I can go with it, then adjust the midtones/ brightness accordingly-whilst trying not to destroy skintones etc. I seem to be able to recover more in nx2 without it affecting other areas so drastically.The same with fill light/shadow recovery-LR is/was blotchy.(it seems improved with this beta.) I wish I had the patience when I previously tried Nx2.
From now on I will use nx2 for problem files and for every print, but I love the cataloging and UI and speed of LR.
I\'ve just had a little play with beta 3.2 and the luminance noise control seems very promising and I think they\'ve tweaked the recovery slider too as one of my problem images doesn\'t show any clipping anymore,along with improvements to fill light-or were these already improved in beta1? I\'ve uninstalled 1 now and didn\'t test it much tbh. I am going to test version 2 a lot more.
my experience is the exact Opposite and i have been the apologist for NX and NC for years. this new iteration of LR3 is better than NX in many cases Especially in the highlight recovery. I find NX\'s ability there to be severly lacking and most times down right ugly. Also is the total lack of aility to Reduce contrast in NX vs LR. LR in this regard has no peer IMO, not to say i do not useNX because I do if i want the absolute best from my studio set top work where i have controlled all the elements wrt lighting and contrast etc. Speed is also so amazing in LR, for me there is NO One Stop Shop for Raw Editors, you must have many tools in the tool shed
J
Mar 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM
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