- #Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos how to#
- #Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos full#
- #Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos pro#
- #Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos trial#
I set the luminance slider to 20 in Lightroom and the luma slider to 30 in Picktorial. You can see that the highlight recovery suffers in comparison but so does the noise reduction. Here is the equivalent photo in Picktorial 3: There is some global sharpening and noise reduction done. The photo was taken at f/1.4 so there is no expectation of sharpness here. You can clearly see the purple aberration at the water-colour rendering of the details. Here is a crop at 100% of the area with the sky. Lightroom does a good job but there is some chromatic aberration where the rock meets the sky. The photo has a very strong contrasts betweens the light parts and the dark parts. I tried a second picture which was taken at ISO 8000 to look at the highlight and shadow recovery there. Picktorial also boasts colour masking, radial and gradient masking with adjustable edge detection. To give Picktorial its due, the luminosity masking is easy to do, it would take me much longer in photoshop to get similar results. Keep in mind that I’m trying to recreate what I did in Lightroom in one step and I have neither the skill nor the patience to create complicated local adjustments to get better highlight management. I honestly tried bringing down the highlights on the water with the local adjustment tools, trying the very promising luminosity masking, but to no avail. I can get them down a bit if I underexpose the whole picture by one stop.
#Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos how to#
I found the how to do the same thing quickly but although the colours are very pleasing, the highlights stay very overexposed. I then opened up the photo in Picktorial, the interface is easy to use and clean by the way. I just cranked down the highlights to -100 in Lightroom and adjusted the greens a little with the HSL sliders and here is what I got. The exposure is ok but the highlights in the water were badly lacking in detail. The first photo I tried is a 1/3s exposure of a river taken on a mini tripod.
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#Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos trial#
Picktorial has some fantastic appeals on the local adjustment side of things so I downloaded the 14 day trial and gave it a go, comparing it to what I can do in Lightroom.
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It saves me from having an intermediary tiff file next to my raw files. The more I can do in Lightroom, the better.
#Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos pro#
Why not ? I’m not a pro but I still go into photoshop from time to time. The versions that have come out over the last couple of years have greatly improved on the editing side and have sparked the idea that an all-in-one program is possible. The raw conversion and editing is enabled by the integration of Camera Raw. To be fair to Lightroom, its strength an main reason of existence is its calalog and digital asset management functions. Well, there have been quite a few raw converters coming out in the last couple of years to take a slice of the market of Lightroom, most of them boasting lightning fast editing and more advanced functions than Lightroom. The list of feature from there website is here.
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The “catalog-free” library just means that Picktorial can load a photo from your hard drive if you can find it in the right folder (and that means a good organisation of the thousands of raw files you have!). The only asset management I found was the classic 1 to 5 star. It is not a digital asset management program, so it will not enable tagging, keywording, colour tags etc… It does not allow collections or searches. It has an export menu that enables to write a jpg or tiff file to disk or a small list of other options for export (mail, messages, twitter, Facebook…). It enables global and local adjustments from a catalog-free library. It is advertised as being a raw converter that gives you a non destructive workflow in an all-in-one package.
#Using picktorial 3 along with apple photos full#
This post is not a full review but a first look or rather my first steps using the software and the comments I made to myself on the way. Well, it’s not really brand new but this third version came out in April 2017 and I read that there is a plugin that would give me the film simulations I love so much when I use my fujifilm cameras. I have read some interesting comments about the new raw processing software Picktorial 3.