How do I use Photo Ninja with Aperture 3?
First easy question:
In Preferences - Export - what do I select for file format and color space? Anything else I need to do here?
I am trying to follow the steps on the Photo Ninja/Aperture tutorial, but I find it confusing! I would really appreciate simple step-by-step of what to do.
The following is the first paragraph of the tutorial, and it goes way over my head:
You can configure Photo Ninja to ignore the TIFF and open the RAW file directly, and then overwrite the TIFF with the results. You can also embed Photo Ninja's settings in the TIFF so that you can re-edit the RAW file with the same settings if you send the TIFF back to Photo Ninja later.
I want to understand this so I can use Photo Ninja with Aperture correctly.
Help!
Studio K,
I was hoping someone who uses Photo Ninja would respond; I don’t so any assistance I offer is speculation.
For file format, most plugins will only use TIF so set that. If you need to open in Photoshop and want layers, you’ll have to toggle this to PSD. Color space, leave at Adobe RGB.
The ability to open a RAW directly is something unique and tricky to Photo Ninja and I can’t really help there. You will need to look on their site for tutorials I suppose.
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Joseph, I read your post on Aperture and Camera Raw TIFF Round Tripping and it was helpful. I still would love to pick someone’s brain who is checking out Photo Ninja now.
Photo Ninja can do a really great job on converting some difficult RAW files. However, I don’t really get how to integrate with Aperture. As far as I understand, I can only import the tiff from P.Ninja back into Aperture.
If I then further edit those tiff files (converted in P.Ninja) in Aperture, am I losing any quality or data? Up until now, I have done almost all editing from within Aperture and have rarely needed to use tiff.
I decided to try Photo Ninja mainly for Noise Ninja, as I got tired of having to reopen with 32-bit plug-in.
Is there something more seamless? What is everyone else using to de-noise? Dfine?
Thanks any tips.
“If you need to open in Photoshop and want layers, you’ll have to toggle this to PSD.”
Not so … TIFF does layers just fine … in fact TIFF was the only file format you could save layers with before the advent of PSD …
The only advantage that PSD has over TIFF is that for some images, with many layers and various layer styles applied, saving and opening PSD is a little more efficient than TIFF … but that too is debatable …
BTW, I see now that N.Ninja did upgrade to 64-bit. I hadn’t upgraded.
Butch,
‘scuse me? TIF supports layers?
oh geez look at that. I had no idea. I always thought you had to go to PSD for layers!
Learn something every day. Hmph. Thanks!
-Joseph
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