Canons own editing solutions

Aug 11, 2024
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I’m a LR user. Perfectly happy with it, but I’m looking to get the most out of the images with my new soon to arrive R1. (Happy!).

I have used DPP before and it does really make a pleasing image. But it’s a pain in the youknowwhat. It’s clunky and slow and only exports tiffs. That’s the main reason I’m asking what I’m asking. I realised that LR AInr (which is excellent) doesn’t work on tiffs.

So that got me down the rabbit hole where I learnt about NNIP. But that’s not available for a Mac. I’m not about to change to windows, least of all because I just spent to much on my R1 and I like being married.

That introduced me to image.canon. I read I can upload from the camera, the NR will be performed in the cloud, and then it will automatically go to LR, and in turn appear on my system in LRC. Boom. That seems quite nice, I could fit that into my workflow.

Then I read that Cloud Raw nr (or whatever it’s called) is being discontinued.

So what do people do? What are my options if I wish to use the lovely raw converter from DPP but wish to retain my ability to fully use Lightroom afterwards.

I have been blown away with AI nr, so I really want to try to keep that in the mix.

I have read the NNIP/DPP is being developed as a LR plugin. But I’ll believe that when I see it.

Cheers.
 
Switch to DxO for NR. If you want to move images to LR, you can just use PureRAW and output DNGs.
I’m happy with lightrooms nr. That’s not the issue. I want to try to use DPP as a raw converter beforehand. Is DxO nr effective on a tiff? I would rather not add another subscription or heavy purchase if I don’t have to. I probably would just eliminate my desire to use DPP as a converter and stick with LR. The issue lies more with canon holding all the cards for the most ideal convertor for cr3’s but wrapping it all up in a clunky incompatible program.
 
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If you like the DPP colours better than the default Adobe colours, give the ColorFidelity profiles a try, they get the colours close enough for me.
If the R1 profiles aren’t available yet, shoot Colin an email to get more information.

And like @neuroanatomist says, give DxO a try for NR, it has a 30 day trial and has its yearly discount this weekend as well.
 
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And like @neuroanatomist says, give DxO a try for NR, it has a 30 day trial and has its yearly discount this weekend as well.

I find DxO superior to DPP in pretty much every way. I only resort to DPP when a camera is too new for DxO (like the R1).
I’ll take a look at dxo pure raw. I like dxo, I tested out the photo editor (not sure which version) a few years ago, I was pleased with the results. I was an extensive user of the Nik collection years and years ago (don’t think it was dxo at the time). I also tried capture one at about the same time and liked that too. Ultimately I stuck with lr because of convenience outweighing any small differences for better or worse. I have well over ten years of professional day in day out editing tied up in LR and Ps. Changing is always very interesting to me but ultimately I never go through with the hassle.

However, right now I’m going from shooting 5div into shooting R1; it’s a new mount, it’s a new type of camera tech, it’s basically all changed - perhaps it’s time to change my editing setup too.
 
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