morty_black Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>I've been noticing lately that there's a quality loss when I convert my CR2 files to 16-bit Tiffs (transfer to Photoshop) in DPP. Colorwise the two files are identical as far as I can tell, but there's a noticable loss in sharpness and definition in the Tiff file. I thought the conversion was supposed to be absolutely lossless.<br> When converting Nikon NEF files to 16-bit Tiff (in Capture NX2) and opening them in CS3, they are absolutely identical - no quality loss.<br> I could very well be without this quality loss. Have anybody any suggestions? Please don't reply about ACR, LR etc. I find the DPP conversion to be the highest quality. Too bad the quality ain't transferred to CS3.<br> Morty</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot1 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>I transfer my files the same way and find no loss in quality of any kind.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morty_black Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>Hmm. I converted a CR2 file (with DPP) to 1) a 16-bit tiff and 2) jpg highest quality. Opened the two files in CS3. They are absolutely identical (and still lossier than the CR2 in DPP). Is this right?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morty_black Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>Well, I learned a lesson. Always view at 100 % before asking ;-) When viewing at 50 %, the CR2 in DPP is a lot sharper than the tiff in CS3. At 100 % they are identical.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabbiinc Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>Go into DPP and see where the Noise Reduction is set too. This is something that doesn't show in the DPP viewer unless you go to the NR/Lens/ALO tab and click apply above Noise Reduction, but it does process. I believe a recent update turned NR up a bit, as well as giving you a stronger NR tool.</p> <p>To set it back to 0, click tools (next to file, select the Tools Palette tab, the NR presets will be at the bottom.</p> <p>Dan</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendel_leisk Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>Deleted comment.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morty_black Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 <p>Thanks, Dan. I'll look into it.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjoseph7 Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 <p>My DPP files definately take a hit when I transfer them to photoshop, that' s why I rather print from there rather than transfering to PS an have to do allot of tweaking. I'm not sure why that is ? </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay a. frew Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 <p>Dan Ferrel:</p> <p>Thanks for that tip!</p> <p>I just checked my version of DDP (3.6) and the Luminance Noise Reduction is set to "2" (on a scale of 0-20). The Chrominance Noise Reduction is set to "0".</p> <p>I rarely make any image adjustment in DPP. I just use it as a RAW converter, so, I will have to check into that now to see how much difference it makes.</p> <p>Cheers! Jay</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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