As you will know LR has a number of tools to aid assessment of the images such as (Grid, Loupe, Survey, Compare and slide show). I purposely ensure that LR does not apply any significant sharpening or noise reduction because I want tp assess the images without this. You are wrong to suggest that LR applies contrast tone curve (it could if you wished) though I am sure it will apply Gamma correction curve.
Once you understand what they do and how they do it, some decide its worth adding the extra stages to their workflow and others don't.Ĭlick to expand.We will clearly continue to disagree. However, within their narrow range of capabilities they do them so much better than LR or C1.
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After the initial culling, selecting the images that warrant further processing is done in LR or C1.įor some FRV is a useful tool, and for others it isn't, but it's a one of these tools, like Photo Mechanic, that until you have used it, and spent the time learning how to use it, you can't assess its usefulness because on the surface they both seem to do things that LR or C1 already do for you. It's a low cost niche product, which people use to speed up initial culling (for those who find LR/C1 etc too slow for culling, as I do) and/or want a better tool for technically assessing their raw files (though if you are really keen on this, RawDigger is a better choice, but that offers no general photo culling tools).įor clarity, I don't normally use FRV for initial culling, I use Photo Mechanic, which I feel is a better tool for this, and only run FRV, from PM, when I want to make a more detailed technical assessment. It is for example much easier to assess whether highlights are really clipped, using FRV, because the histogram shows the actual numbers taken from the raw file, and not from the processed preview, which is what you get in the LR histogram. And nothing wrong with that once you are in the processing workflow (assuming you are happy with Adobe's starting point) but that isn't what FRV does, or tries to do.įRV isn't interested in giving you the "best starting point" (after all, unlike LR, it isn't a raw processor) its interested in giving you the tools to very quickly assess the technical quality of your original raw files (even though you can also use it for general culling), so you move the very best raw files into your Raw Processor workflow. The default previews in LR do not display the original files with as little processing as possible, they include (unless you have gone to the effort of doing something about it) a preview with rather a lot of processing aimed at giving you Adobe's idea of a best starting point. I didn't say it displayed the raw file, and the points I made about the differences in the underlying approaches between FRV and LR remain.
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xmp files and then when the folder is accessed using DxO P元 that will will be an aid to maybe even moving away from LR altogether?!Īll I can suggest is, like I have done, start a trial and see what you think and how it might fit in to your workflow? Now, if FRV can handle (it does have some DAM related function of ratings and IPTC entries, I have read that right?) keywording etc that goes into the. It will load(?) a folder of files compared to Faststone 'instantly' and with the aforementioned zoomed in viewing and aids to critical focus checking (and the H & S controls ) I anticipate I will save time and frustration in the knowledge that when I import to LR it is only the better & best files I am doing that with. Therefore, I sought out to use a raw viewer to aid the 'first step culling' and settled on Faststone Image Viewer.but found its idiocycratic file handling was getting to me. So, when I got my Olympus E-M1 Mk2 and discovered that DxO Photolab was the ideal (for me) raw converter I then realised that LR was only being used as a DAM ~ and a very good DAM it is too.
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However, the importing and cull took ages though may be due the fact I am using LR v6 and my PC with its i5 760 Quad Core CPU and 16GB of RAM with separate OS drive and data drives may not be the fastest of configurations. In the past I would import into LR and then as you describe cull, keyword etc and process as needed. I always copy the memory card(s) to pre-named folders on my hard drive