Show Us Your RAW Conversions, BEFORE And AFTER

Stiga wrote in post #18228692
It's a while since I posted an image on this forum, let's see if I can do it!

Here is my starting image loaded into DxO Optics Pro 10. Anyone who wants to play with the original can download it from here: https://www.mediafire.​com/?2tsi1dqft5frtty

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Now here is the result after DcO processing.

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Still not quite how I want it so here it is after some selective tweaking in Photoshop!
(I don't seem to be able to embed more than 2 image in the text I' put it into another post.)

Martin

Rawtherapee conversion of Martin's photograph...
Here is the neutral profile first...

Which goes off and produces this output:

Benitoite wrote in post #18229203
Which goes off and produces this output:

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A very interesting result - but a tad too contrasty for me.

Unfortunately, my old eyes cannot read your settings; please tell me how you achieved perspective distortion correction. Is it a tool within RAW Therapee?

Yes the tool allowed me to do the following adjustments:
Rotation
Vertical perspective
Horizontal perspective
Pincushion.

Of course the biggest adjustment was the vertical perspective. The others were very slight.

Thanks Goldmember

An Australian Juvenile Rosella

First image is the original RAW
Second Image is after color adjustments in Lightroom and at crop stage
Third Image is final finished image

Final Image

It would be really cool if there was a Lightroom plugin that showed all the changes done to the image and did a before/after comparison.

Then we could have a nice standardized format for posting and it would be less time consuming for people to add content to this amazing thread!

Smitty2k1 wrote in post #18333342
It would be really cool if there was a Lightroom plugin that showed all the changes done to the image and did a before/after comparison.

Then we could have a nice standardized format for posting and it would be less time consuming for people to add content to this amazing thread!

Hitting Y in the Develop module shows a before/after comparison side-by-side. Is that what you mean?

ManiZ wrote in post #18333565
Hitting Y in the Develop module shows a before/after comparison side-by-side. Is that what you mean?

No I was thinking something specific for educational purposes of easily putting together a side-by-side comparison with all the editing details (sliders, etc.). Kind of like the images folks put together for this thread, but could be done with a single button/plugin instead of screenshots and additional work.

In LR you can show the history panel and see everything you did to it.

A while ago, Adobe came out with an extension/panel for Photoshop called "Tutorial Builder":

http://labs.adobe.com/​technologies/tutorialb​uilder/

It does not seem like it made an impact on the user community and my guess is that Adobe never really followed up on developing it. In theory, it is interesting. I guess people prefer screencasts or video tutorials where a person is explaining the workflow and walking the viewer through the process?

Probably the easiest way to capture the adjustments made to a specific raw file in LR is to save the XMP sidecar file and distribute it with the raw file, or convert the raw to DNG and then process it - the raw processing instructions get written directly to the DNG. However, for this to be useful, folks would have to make their raw+XMP or DNG files downloadable to the public. As far as sharing the settings on this forum, you could simply copy the relevant parts of the text from the XMP sidecar and paste it into the forum post, even surrounding it with "code" tags:

crs:RawFileName="_MG_0​267.CR2"
   crs:Version="9.10"
   crs:ProcessVersion="6.​7"
   crs:WhiteBalance="Cust​om"
   crs:Temperature="5650"
   crs:Tint="+16"
   crs:LuminanceSmoothing​="14"
   crs:ColorNoiseReductio​n="25"
   crs:LuminanceNoiseRedu​ctionDetail="50"
   crs:ColorNoiseReductio​nDetail="50"
   crs:LuminanceNoiseRedu​ctionContrast="0"
   crs:ColorNoiseReductio​nSmoothness="50"
   crs:ToneCurveName="Med​ium Contrast"
   crs:ToneCurveName2012=​"Linear"
   crs:CameraProfile="Ado​be Standard"
   crs:LensProfileSetup="​LensDefaults"

In the ones I've done, I just make a bunch of selection screenshots (which by default go to the desktop), open them all simultaneously, arrange them in a meaningful way, then make an additional screenshot of the arrangement. Then I upload that final screenshot for sharing.

It's very cumbersome but it works I guess.

Gets me something like this:

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/s2Z6​i4

The posters above seemed to want a record of all the intermediate stages and of the order in which they were set. The xmp won't supply the goods because it shows only the settings at a given moment, usually the final moment before export or transfer to another application - or discouraged abandonment. I often spend several minutes searching for the best balance between
"Exposure", Highlights and White Point or between Sharpening, Clarity and NR

Moreover, the settings are listed in a fixed order, which may or may not be the same as the user's plan of attack.

Yeah, I'm not sure any posts in the thread show the thought process and the back and forth, which is probably too much information anyway.

Screenshots of the final settings show the same thing as the XMP, just easier to read.