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Don't try that with transparencies, kids. If it wasn't right, straight out of the camera, there was no real fixing it. I am somewhat nostalgic about film photography, but I wouldn't go back. Heck, I recently gave my dad's beloved Rollei 3.5F to my niece, since it was just gathering dust in a...

Do you have to edit in LR? No, but most RAW images I get really need at least a little help to look decent. Some need a lot. Shooting in RAW pretty much presupposes that you are going to post process, and as Fred said these programs pretty much only denoise and sharpen. RAW files almost always...

Well, there is no doubt, in my mind anyway, that good, modern digital sensors are far less dependent on the "correct" exposure than film was. Especially when it came to slide film. I remember the good old days of dodging, burning, push processing, choosing a paper contrast, and choosing a paper...

Well, I see that the bundle I have entitles me to download Photo AI. I have a 16 GB stick of RAM coming tomorrow for my computer, so I may have to download and try it. Maybe this weekend, if I get the RAM installed.

Thought I would try Sharpen AI on something else. I picked an out of focus BIF that suffered from motion blur. Here is the image processed (badly, I didn't spend much time on it) in LR. I did add some sharpening to the bird only. And here it is after running through Sharpen AI and then...

Tried, Email wouldn't let me send a file over 25 MB. LR and PS wouldn't let me resize and save as an NEF. At least I couldn't see a way to do that. I did try Gigapixel on the image and ended up with this. No additional sharpening or editing in LR other than crop. Art was the only option that...

I finally decided to see what would happen if I used the sharpen slider in LR on both images. I'll let you decide on how well the program worked on this image. Just for reference, this is the full, unedited image. Here is the unprocessed image with the sharpness slider at 116. For reference...

Well, I am working my way through the programs. I have already posted some on this subject, and thought I should create a new thread on it. I am finding the programs to be a mixed bag. Worth the money, but they don't work well on all subjects and situations from my limited experience. I find...

Looks like the version I'm running assigns 25 out of 100 noise reduction. Of course, it won't allow any plugins, so I'm using Topaz as a stand alone. I have been just bringing the RAW unedited file into Denoise, or Sharpen, then saving it as a DNG file before bringing that file up in LR. It's a...

OK, bought and downloaded them today. Played around with them briefly. Not sure about Sharpen. Gigapixel did a great job on a couple old family photos. Denoise seems to do a better job than I can with Lightroom. I need to dig into the slider and other options to maximize denoise. I'm a little...

What would you recommend? The bundle of three, or Photo AI? My computer and my daughter's would meet the minimum requirements for Photo AI, after I get the RAM upgrade (ordered). I'm just afraid that it will run slow or have issues with minimum required hardware. The individual programs have...

Another question for you, Fred. Is there much advantage to getting Gigapixel. I can get Denoise, Sharpen and Gigapixel as a bundle for $200. I can get Sharpen and Denoise for $160, and I have PS, with Super Zoom filter to upscale a heavily cropped image. Is there a lot of advantage to Gigapixel...

A 16 GB stick plus the 4GB incorporated in the motherboard maxes this thing out at 20GB. I was going to have BB put it in this morning, but they said they didn't carry the RAM I need. I would have to order it off the internet and bring it in. I have Totaltech for another month, so I was going to...

It's got a 500 GB SSD in it Fred.

I'm running an older (5yrs) Lenovo with an I5 processor and 8 GB of RAM. After LR update last year, LR has often run slow and sometimes becomes unresponsive. Other than that, the computer suits my needs. I've thought about upgrading the RAM to hopefully solve this, and I'm also thinking about...

Ran across this. Not sure it will work, but probably worth trying. Memory access light stays on

That is a possibility, I guess, but the most likely scenario in my mind is that I didn't tighten it down properly. I do remember thinking I felt a little bit of odd clunking while following birds, but was engrossed in what I was doing. I definitely won't ignore that in the future, and...

Went out to take some BIF and other wildlife pictures this morning. Shortly after dawn, I mounted up the trusty Z5 and 200-500 F5.6 lens to my new tripod and set off to get some nice images. AT the end of the session, as I was heading back down the trail to the car, I noticed something wasn't...

Got back over to the Audubon Swamp Garden this morning. Had a few problems, but managed to come back with a few keepers.