ACR to PCC glitch?

hark

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I just got a new D7200 to use exclusively with my 300mm lens so I can use a zoom lens with my other D7200. I wouldn't have gotten another one other than Nikon is doing away with the second card slot in the D7500.

Here is the first image taken with the new body. The file name is changed to NIK instead of DSC to keep each body distinct from one another. I ran into a problem I've never experienced previously and hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I edited the NEF in ACR then took it to PCC. Right away I noticed a ton of noise in PCC. So I reopened the NEF in ACR and added a circle with noise reduction. The noise reduction is outside the possum (outside the circle). But when I move to PCC with the file, there's so much noise. I've never experienced anything like this. The circle has a heavy amount of noise reduction applied (to make a visible difference). Both working spaces are sRGB even though the original NEF is Adobe RGB. That's how all my bodies are set so it shouldn't make any difference.

Here is a link to the NEF and its side card with the editing I did in case anyone would be willing to look. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tk5a43trnryjsdc/AADKDhTXjZ2IOshXN1VONIT5a?dl=0

Here is a screen shot in ACR. There is a heavy amount of noise reduction applied to make the difference more noticeable.

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Then when I take the file into PCC, there is so much noise. What might cause the noise reduction to not get applied to the file when moving from ACR to PCC? Is there some type of camera body setting that I missed which would cause this? :confused:

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Horoscope Fish

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I just got a new D7200 to use exclusively with my 300mm lens so I can use a zoom lens with my other D7200. I wouldn't have gotten another one other than Nikon is doing away with the second card slot in the D7500.

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I pulled down your raw image and I'm not having this issue.

Here's what I did: I opened your raw file in ACR and reset everything to the Default. I then clicked "Auto", applied some heavy handed noise reduction, saved the file as a .PSD to my desktop and closed ACR.

I then re-opened your raw in ACR and the .PSD created from your raw file in Photoshop so I could compare the ACR version to the Photoshop version side by side. Noise reduction appears identical. I'll edit this post in a minute with a screenshot.

Okay, here we go...

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hark

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I pulled down your raw image and I'm not having this issue.

Here's what I did: I opened your raw file in ACR and reset everything to the Default. I then clicked "Auto", applied some heavy handed noise reduction, saved the file as a .PSD to my desktop and closed ACR.

I then re-opened your raw in ACR and the .PSD created from your raw file in Photoshop so I could compare the ACR version to the Photoshop version side by side. Noise reduction appears identical. I'll edit this post in a minute with a screenshot.

Okay, here we go...

Thanks, Paul. I appreciate the info. So maybe my PCC isn't working right. I will check into that a little later today.
 

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I'm not having an issue opening it either. Applied the settings in your XMP file just fine.

Thanks for the help, Jake. I updated iTunes and iCloud a day or so ago which might have caused an issue. Will probably have to go back to a restore point.
 

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Tonight I did a System Restore on my computer - went back to about one week ago when I created a restore point before updating iTunes and iCloud. Afterwards I edited several other images first and didn't notice any problems.

BUT just a short time ago I deleted the side card file for this image and started over from scratch. There is still a noticeable difference although not quite as obvious as the original edit. Yet it just seems to be this one image. Maybe is has more to do with how my monitor displays colors? I don't know. The other possum image I took from a slightly different vantage point isn't affected (and wasn't affected prior to the System Restore).

Not sure why, but this seems to be an isolated incident. The new edit is okay - at least not quite as much noise prevalent as the first edit had (despite that first edit having an immense amount of noise reduction applied). Thanks for the help, Paul and Jake. :encouragement:
 

mikew_RIP

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Add to this one, ACR is opening my sRGB files from the D500 as adobe, looked at changing it to sRGB but which one in workflow options do i need

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Add to this one, ACR is opening my sRGB files from the D500 as adobe, looked at changing it to sRGB but which one in workflow options do i need

ACR will open with whatever color profile you used last. Yours is set to 8-bit. That's for jpegs. You want something that is 16-bit.

How is the color profile in your body set? Mine is set for Adobe RGB, but I think the default is sRGB. sRGB is for web images. Adobe RGB covers a larger range of colors. But if your computer doesn't show 100% Adobe RGB colors, you probably won't notice a huge difference.

My bodies are set for Adobe RGB; however, ACR and PCC are set for sRGB 16-bit. You might want to read through one of my previous threads which provided me with very helpful info from other members.

https://nikonites.com/post-processin...#axzz5fhyUZ1my
 

Blade Canyon

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Hark, the one time I had a similar issue with NEF files looking different in ACR and PS, I had to turn off the "use graphics processor" option. Then everything looked the same. Edit -> Preferences -> then Camera Raw (for ACR). Edit -> Preferences -> Performance (for PS).
 
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