OK I need you to clear this up...

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:48 am

We recommend using the YCrCb JPEG color space to process color images in Neat Image.
bottom of page 20 in the book.

OK I always use Raw in my D10. But you say to use JPEG? Or am I missing something's!!!

Post by **NITeam** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:20 am

It says YCrCb JPEG working color space in Neat Image, not JPEG file format. The working color space internally used by Neat Image and file format (JPEG, TIFF, BMP, RAW - whatever) - are not the same thing.

The point is the "YCrCb JPEG" working color space is recommended when you process RGB color images.

Vlad

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:23 am

As long as we are talking formats. Why cant I save my batch output's in the photoshop .psd form? Maybe this is a patch comming down the road?

Post by **NITeam** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:27 am

What would be the added benefit of saving into *.PSD as compared with *.TIF?

Vlad

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:29 am

I guess I am a photoshop nut? Its just the format that I always use. Is this a possable patch?

Post by **NITeam** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:37 am

Such a patch would require a lot of extra work and I am sure it will add very little to what is already possible with the TIFF format. TIFF is fully supported by Photoshop, it is perfectly standard. PSD is proprietory and non-standardized. If Adobe changes PSD format we will have to track their changes. TIFF is better in this respect. And Photoshop doesn't care what to open - TIFF or PSD.

BTW, you can save batch output in *.PSD if you use Neat Image plug-in within the Photoshop batch facility. I am sure you know how this facility works.

Vlad

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:42 am

Thanks Vlad. I'm using the batch in the plugin mode. Just dont need PS hog'n all that mem. I think I need to go back to using Tiff's! I was thinking that there was a layer compat problem. Or maybe with the layer comps feat. of CS.

Post by **NITeam** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:47 am

If you process images from a digital camera using Neat Image and this is the first postprocessing step after the camera then the images you have before Neat Image are always single-layer JPEGs or TIFFs. After Neat Image, you also receive single-layer TIFFs. Photoshop has no problem opening such image files. You open such a file just like a PSD file and what you see is a single layer image in Photoshop.

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:51 am

OK workflow= from D10 Raw in photoshop - to .psd - then NI - and then back to PS for edits.

Post by **NITeam** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:55 am

Then using the plug-in seems to be the best choice. - You will not need to save an intermediate file; the image can go directly from the 1st (RAW conversion) to the 2nd step (noise reduction) of workflow.

Also, if you do RAW conversion in batch, you can add noise reduction in the same batch as well. So everything will be completely automated.

Vlad

spiritman · Post by **spiritman** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:00 am

Yea I was just try'n to not have PS running to give NI all the mem. & horsepowr it can use....
Thanks Vlad. Feel's good here. I'm a newbe!!!