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RAW+JEPG FINE imported into aperture with no sharpening or much of anything done to the RAW images in aperture
Images are culled..unwanted ones are deleted, determine which jpegs are usable, and which would benefit from RAW processing.
RAW images are than processed entirely in the NIK software suite as follows:
RAW presharpener->viveza->color-efex pro-> than nik output sharpener
Now, this has worked fine for me up till now, but I've been looking and playing with the trial versions of some of the other RAW processors out there, namely DXO-optics pro 9, CNX2, and photo ninja.
This is sort of where my confusion starts. What exactly would I be gaining by incorporating one of these into my workflow?? It looks like if anything it would be adding some steps as I would first have to import into aperture, than open up the files in DXO/PNP/CN2, than export them back into aperture as TIFF files where I could continue working on them in the nik suite (and I also assume this means I would no longer be needing to use nik raw presharpener).
FWIW, i did notice some difference in RAW images in PNP/DXO compared to how aperture processed them. DXO seemed to do a pretty good job of sharpening RAW files, but I couldn't help but notice the same file in PNP seems slightly less sharp, but PNP seemed to handle highlights slightly better.