Paintshop Pro X4 RAW inferior to Nikon ViewNX

[rvbd]

Hi All,

I just purchased paintshop pro X4 and it seems that the RAW processing quality is always inferior to the free Nikon ViewNX. Frequently, I can see that by viewing at 100 percent, corel raw processor loses fine details and frequently exhibits moire in some finer areas such as eyelids.

Are there any settings that I need to change in Paintshop Pro to gain better quality RAW processing?

My camera is Nikon D300s. Right now I process the raw in viewNX then export to tiff and process in corel, which I'd like to avoid of course.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks All in advance.

[df]

Use your camera's RAW converter. It works, it's free, I assume you can output a Tiff or similar high dynamic file type. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

[bananahead]

Don't forget to have a look at AfterShot Pro.

It's an established product (ex Bibble with a long history) that may do everything that you want.

I don't use PSP anything like as much as I used to (although it is still a great product).

[rvbd]

That is exactly what I do now, convert my raw in viewnx and edit on psp x4. It work but its not a very effective workflow. I suppose I can only wait for the next update.

[brucet]

I guess the truth of the matter is we all want one program that will do everything for us. Sorry but I don't know what it is. Especialy at Corel prices. I would rather have a few specialised programs than one all in one program that doesn't do a great job.

A weakness of PSP has always been its RAW ability.

I've used Bibble for sometime. Now with AfterShot Pro you can do your RAW conversion and jump right into PSP.

[flagpole]

i agree the raw processing in PSP is poor. the colour is not great compared to aperture or lightroom even when using the default option with all of them.

one thing i would say is that with Nikon, they have an option called D-lighting, the changes the dynamic range to preserve shadow and highlight detail, and non of the programs appear to understand this.

[bobtail]

The answer is to use Nikon's Capture NX2, with PSPX4 . NX2 will access all of th Nikon code including Active D-Lighting so is superb for Nikon raw files. It also has amazing selection controls based on Nik U-point technology. It is also quite easy to learn once you find your way around it. All done non-destructively so all your edit steps can be re-visited at any time. Images can be opened directly into PSP as 16bit images for any further work.
Chris.

[teknisyan]

If you want to try our aftershot pro you can download and try the full working version for 30 days. Just visit http://apps.corel.com/lp/aftershot/download/index.html to download the trial version.