CharlesG Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 G'day Crew, Another round of questions for you.... I have tried my first stack, I did a still life of some flowers and took several images with different lightings with the aim of doing a composite and painting in the more nicely lit areas from each photo. I created the stack and the app brought me straight into the photo persona, I would have preferred to do a raw develop on them beforehand. I understand how I could do this manually, but I want the computer to automatically align for me. I clicked on the develop persona to try to go into it and do an edit on one of the photos and it took me there, but was unable to make any changes, I'm not sure why this is. My basic question is what is the proper sequence to do this in, I imagined that I would do a raw develop that applies to all of the images and then develop and go into the photo persona and do the composite work. Should I be worried about the raw development? Thanks, as always, for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 5 hours ago, CharlesG said: I created the stack and the app brought me straight into the photo persona, I would have preferred to do a raw develop on them beforehand. It's best to Open each RAW image individually, and Develop, and export to TIFF. Then use the TIFFs to make your stack. Given the processing that occurs, I would only use RAW images for File > Open and File > New Batch Job. Unless there were improvements in V2 that I'm not aware of, those are the only workflows that make use of the Develop Assistant processing, I think. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesG Posted April 9, 2023 Author Share Posted April 9, 2023 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: It's best to Open each RAW image individually, and Develop, and export to TIFF. Then use the TIFFs to make your stack. Given the processing that occurs, I would only use RAW images for File > Open and File > New Batch Job. Unless there were improvements in V2 that I'm not aware of, those are the only workflows that make use of the Develop Assistant processing, I think. Thanks Walt, I have delved into this. So it brings another question, I have not done much with TIFF, should I export as TIFF RGB 8-bit or 16-bit? I presume 16-bit will give a wider colour space, but the massive file size is taxing to the computer of course. How important is this? Thanks again, always appreciate the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Probably 16-bit, at least until you're done with the processing. Then decide what you need for the final image. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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