Thank you. I have 2 options to edit photos and use Nik as plug-in, Photolab and Affinity 2. Mostly I am just using Color Efex via Photolab at present. If I wanted to use more than one Nik module in my edit is there a preferable program to use? Affinity works much like Photoshop with layers whilst I presume with Photolab you would reopen the Tif that that got sent from say Color Efex in Viveza.
Nik Collection is compatible with Affinity, so I assume this workflow would work in the same way but I don’t have Affinity to check. I’ll ask the question on the DxO forum and report back.
The opinion on the DxO forum as of Nov 2023 is that the integration with Affinity doesn't go as far as the integration with Adobe. You can open the plugins within Affinity but crucially you can't revisit to adjust the edit in the way that I demonstrate. I don't know whether you can save them as layers in Affinity but if you can then presumably you have opacity to adjust the strength of the individual layers in the whole image. This would be better than the position you would be in if you did this directly from PhotoLab - ie. Export Tif 1 to Color Efex for example and apply your edits, save back to PhotoLab as Tif 2 then open Tif 2 in Viveza and apply your edits. That being said - keep an eye out for an announcement from DxO in the next few weeks.
@@chriswrightphotographs Thank you very much for your help. My (amateurish) thoughts in using Affinity was to use a separate layer for each interaction with a Nik module but because there is no smart object available in Affinity I deduced that this might not be the same process. I tried out an edit using Photolab=> Color Efex =>Photolab => Viveza => Photolab this morning and the results seemed good.
At the end of the video I talk about Tif files and I think the comment needs expanding. Tif is a lossless format so the act of saving it to the file system doesn't cause it to degrade through compression. Unlike jpg. However, the danger is that you bake changes into the tif which of course are then embedded in any subsequent save. Nik Collection gets around this by creating a new copy of the tif when you save it back to Lightroom. In Photoshop, so long as the Nik layers are smart objects, you can revisit the file and redo the edit. Just be careful to convert to Smart objects otherwise they will not be saved as Smart Filters.
Interesting, thank you!
Thank you, glad it's useful!
Thank you. I have 2 options to edit photos and use Nik as plug-in, Photolab and Affinity 2. Mostly I am just using Color Efex via Photolab at present. If I wanted to use more than one Nik module in my edit is there a preferable program to use? Affinity works much like Photoshop with layers whilst I presume with Photolab you would reopen the Tif that that got sent from say Color Efex in Viveza.
Nik Collection is compatible with Affinity, so I assume this workflow would work in the same way but I don’t have Affinity to check. I’ll ask the question on the DxO forum and report back.
The opinion on the DxO forum as of Nov 2023 is that the integration with Affinity doesn't go as far as the integration with Adobe. You can open the plugins within Affinity but crucially you can't revisit to adjust the edit in the way that I demonstrate. I don't know whether you can save them as layers in Affinity but if you can then presumably you have opacity to adjust the strength of the individual layers in the whole image. This would be better than the position you would be in if you did this directly from PhotoLab - ie. Export Tif 1 to Color Efex for example and apply your edits, save back to PhotoLab as Tif 2 then open Tif 2 in Viveza and apply your edits. That being said - keep an eye out for an announcement from DxO in the next few weeks.
@@chriswrightphotographs Thank you very much for your help. My (amateurish) thoughts in using Affinity was to use a separate layer for each interaction with a Nik module but because there is no smart object available in Affinity I deduced that this might not be the same process. I tried out an edit using Photolab=> Color Efex =>Photolab => Viveza => Photolab this morning and the results seemed good.
@@IanWheldale That's good, it's just a matter of keeping track of the versions now!
At the end of the video I talk about Tif files and I think the comment needs expanding. Tif is a lossless format so the act of saving it to the file system doesn't cause it to degrade through compression. Unlike jpg. However, the danger is that you bake changes into the tif which of course are then embedded in any subsequent save. Nik Collection gets around this by creating a new copy of the tif when you save it back to Lightroom. In Photoshop, so long as the Nik layers are smart objects, you can revisit the file and redo the edit. Just be careful to convert to Smart objects otherwise they will not be saved as Smart Filters.