5 Replies Latest reply: Aug 26, 2010 10:39 PM by hamish niven RSS

    Applying just vignette or other develop presets in Export-Post processing

    Jantsa Community Member

      Is there anyway to apply vignette in the export phase ? There is post processing option as very last step but that seems to be just for an external application, e.g. Photoshop. As a wedding photographer you might want to provide clients both dark and white vignettes, sepia variants or black & white ones. It would be very beneficial to have these as export operations. Maybe e.g. vignette could be logical OR operation so that main develop settings are kept while just vignette is added on top.

       

      -Janne

        • 2. Re: Applying just vignette or other develop presets in Export-Post processing
          hamish niven Community Member

          Jantsa wrote:

           

          Is there anyway to apply vignette in the export phase ? There is post processing option as very last step but that seems to be just for an external application, e.g. Photoshop. As a wedding photographer you might want to provide clients both dark and white vignettes, sepia variants or black & white ones. It would be very beneficial to have these as export operations. Maybe e.g. vignette could be logical OR operation so that main develop settings are kept while just vignette is added on top.

           

          -Janne

          Janne

           

          This is a more workflow oriented way of doing what you want to do.

          You simply make copies of the images, and apply the  presets to those and then exporting the lot

           

          The way to do that is to use virtual copies. It takes up little more space on your hard drives, and you can see the effect,

          ie 1 photo with many  variants

          1. Original image
          2. black and white low key
          3. black and white high key
          4. vignetted image
          5. sepia effect

           

           

           

          This can be done with presets and just select your original images, make for this example 4 virtual copies of all the images, and apply presets

           

           

          1. black and white low key
          2. black and white high key
          3. vignetted image
          4. sepia effect

           

          you now have 5 sets of images, you can check them, you can send them to your client, and depending on how you tag / label your images, the client can choose image 1233445 with sepia effect by sending you the filename

          image 12345_4 or however you arrange things.

           

          Hope that helps

          • 3. Re: Applying just vignette or other develop presets in Export-Post processing
            Jantsa Community Member

            Rob, yes plug-in would be fine but I haven't found such plug-in.

             

            Hamish, I've been working with individual virtual copies but not for whole set of images. Do you know if there is easy way to view/select only the virtual copies at time ?

             

            -Janne

            • 4. Re: Applying just vignette or other develop presets in Export-Post processing
              areohbee Community Member

              So how about a plugin that:

               

              1. Has a half-dozen fields / buttons that you can use to enter the name of or browse to a preset to be applied before exporting.

              2. Press "Go".

               

              and the plugin would do something similar to what Simon suggested: make a virtual copy, apply the presets to that, export the photo, then delete it.

               

              It can theoretically be done without making a virtual copy, but backing out the changes done for the sake of export would be "klunky" for lack of a better word.

               

              So, really just automating what Simon was suggesting you do manually.

               

              The downside of the plugin approach is you don't get to see what the photos will look like ahead of time (I mean other than trying the presets on a photo before doing the export). The upside is that its one-click. And, you can save plugin presets that encapsulate a multitude of develop presets, and also you could apply two different vignettes - granted a bit more coding.

               

              Would it be a net improvement?

               

              Rob

              • 5. Re: Applying just vignette or other develop presets in Export-Post processing
                hamish niven Community Member

                Jantsa wrote:

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                Hamish, I've been working with individual virtual copies but not for whole set of images. Do you know if there is easy way to view/select only the virtual copies at time ?

                 

                -Janne

                Hi Janne - Simon er Hamish here,

                There is a very simple way to see Virtual Copies only, there is a filter for them

                virtual-icon.jpg

                 

                See the corner folded over of the middle icon - Virtual copy. To find this, you need to turn on the filters

                find-filters.jpg

                 

                 

                click this and set it to rated (you can see the virtual copy icon unblurred in the image below)

                filters-=-rated.jpg

                Now you can just select the virtual images or by toggling that icon, you can see both,

                virtual-copy-and-original.jpg

                just like that.

                 

                 

                 

                 

                 

                I hope this helps you