Digital Light & Color

Tony, Several transformations in PWP8 and PWP7 can be done in RGB, HSV or HSL color space. E.g. Brightness Curve. In the RAW conversion of PWP7 you can select HSV or HSL color space. In general, I prefer HSV for the RAW conversion. The RAW dialog box in PWP7 has options that PWP8 doesn't offer. Opti...

Your previous post mentioned, that you use(d) DxO to produce TIF. That's ok, but DxO also offers the option to export "corrected raw" DNG files. That's what I prefer. I started to use DxO after many years of RAW conversion in PWP7. The optical corrections, noise reduction and sharpening (I...

The article is ok, but take into account that the article is nearley 2 years old and the tools might have improved. I downloaded the raw and developed it with DxO 6 and DeepPrime XD and received a very good result (from my point of view). Problem: DeepPrime XD needs a strong CPU or graphic-card. Pr...

I tested it with jpeg quality set to 95. After say 5-6 saves there is definitely a difference, the file size changes a bit.
Autorange is required to see the differences after the Absolute Difference transformation. The question is, is it a relevant difference in practice?

I use DxO Photolab 4, and the option "export to DNG" is similar to the output of Pure RAW. As Jonathan commented, the optical corrections and the noise reduction are excellent. The exported DNG files are large, since they are linear RAW files. I use the "export to DNG" option onc...

I see, it's in the "grid" menu. Excuse me, I didn't search well enough. As I said, I still use PWP7 next to 8, and mainly use 8 for those transformations that are not, or less convenient, in 7. Old habits slowly die. I will use 8 a bit more. My question has been answered, and even faster t...

You are right, it is the Westhoff Diagonal method and years ago I read the paper he wrote about it. When I still had a b&w analog darkroom, I used a transparent paper with 45deg lines drawn on it on top of the photo paper, to position e.g. an eye in a portrait on the diagonal. And took that away...

I would like to add a composition guide to the crop tool: 4 lines that show the angle bisector of the 4 corners of a rectangular crop. So, lines at 45 and 135 degrees. The format of the composition guide files (e.g. Diagonals or Thirds-diagonals) has, logically, the corners of the crop rectangle as ...

As expected and explained by Jonathan, expanding to full dynamic range changes a lot. The next thing you could do is to use the midtone slider under the "grey" menu.

I use PWP 7 for the majority of my RAW conversions and am very satisfied, at least with low-ISO images. High-ISO images have a bit more noise than I like, so I treat them differently. You can send me the 2 RAW+JPG files of your screenshots, if you wish, and I'll try to make the RAW conversion look m...