8 pages on WorkFlowPilot, a back cover and THAT's IT! Other than that there are a couple of small (4 to 6 pages) booklets on JobManager, ADF Scan and Focus Control. But this is described nowhere in the documentation.ĭocumentation: virtually NIL There is a 15-pages "quick start" guide (A5 format), with 7 pages for cover, legal stuff, installation etc. To delete a custom parameters set, there is no delete menu item, instead you must click on the item to add a set while holding the Alt key.
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The software and the (little existing) documentation, do not match, buttons are for instance described in the documentation that do not exist in the software. The "WorkFlowPilot" and its childish little airplane may be a help for a single occasional scan, but as soon as you want to use JobManager or "ADF scan" to do some serious batch scanning, it must be deactivated. I followed the advice in a review on and went to their affiliated web shop To begin with, the software uses an incredibly oldish, but most important, counter productive user interface. This is one thing that drove me nuts about Photoshop plugins I tried in the past - pretty much every photoshop plugin uses one or more “autocolor” adjustments in an early part of the conversion, but these adjustments end up “fully baked” in the output - there is no transparency to color adjustment is being applied, and no ability to change it in the early, crucial state in the editing pipeline.Bought this software a couple of weeks ago together with a Reflecta RPS 7200 scanner.
Whether evaluative or fixed, it should be easy to see and adjust exactly what it is doing. For instance, some tools enable you to use both an autocolor algorithm and a fixed film profile at the same time, which stacks the effects and leads to bad color.ģ.
Whether evaluative or fixed, it all needs to be integrated into a single tool to avoid a “stacking” effect. “Evaluative” profiles (like AutoNeutral and AutoWarm) typically outperformed “fixed” film profiles.Ģ. This means i can convert batches of frames and only reprocess a few in NLP.Īnd yes! I did a ton of testing on “film specific profiles” a while back (ala Vuescan, Silverfast, ColorPerfect), and had a few conclusions from that testing that heavily influenced the design of Negative Lab Pro:ġ. Basically the defaults just work unlike SilverFast where you need to fiddle about choosing films and even in some cases editing profiles. This means i can convert batches of frames and only reprocess a few in NLP.Ī good job particular impressed with the colour cast removal / conversion in NLP. I’m particular impressed with the colour cast removal / conversion in NLP.
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If i was super diligent i’d save the raw HDRi format too but have decided not to buy the HDRi license required as wasn’t impressed with the demo and if i’m going to fiddle with the images prefer to use better tools - NLP / lightroom / Photoshop / Pixelmator With HDRi wasn’t that impressed with the Silverfast’s HDR software (its basically the same as Silverfast 9 AI but with an additional cost). In all these cases dust and scratches were an issue. I experimented with Sillverfast raw HDRi, DNG and tried Epson Scan and Epson Scan 2 without adding much value.
I’m getting similar results with both but in general NLP gives me a more pleasing result. Seems a bit over the top but find negative to positive is a good point to set up the frames. My workflow now is scan negative to positive with Silverfast 9 AI and scan positive with iSRD for NLP both at 3200 dpi 48 bit TIFF.
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