Ed Hurst
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I am beginning to get some reasonable experience under my belt with the new toy and the files are, in many ways, mightily impressive. As you may know, one of my main use cases is star trail photography in which a very large number of files are stacked. I've noticed something interesting... When I process the RAW files in ACR, they individually look fine. But when I stack the resultant files in PS layers, with the blending mode set to Lighten, they combine to show clear horizontal banding throughout the files. It's really quite a problem. However, when I use CaptureOne to produce the RAWs, the files stack fine in PS without this problem. I have absolutely no idea why this would be, but there it is...
I've never used CaptureOne before and have a lot to learn about how to use it. In fact, I've never used an application that creates libraries (e.g. Lightroom), doing all my file management manually and launching ACR from Bridge. So this is a big thing to get used to. To be honest, I wish I could use CaptureOne that way, but haven't found a way to do so; therefore I will be investing in learning it from the ground up.
In the meantime, at least I have a solution to getting nice, clean files for the star trails. Wish I could to it in ACR, but at this stage, that doesn't seem to be possible.
In case it matters, the files in question are 14-bit RAWs taken using lossless compression.
Any tips, advice or experiences very welcome, be it in the best ways to learn CaptureOne or to make ACR do what I am seeking instead ;-)
I've never used CaptureOne before and have a lot to learn about how to use it. In fact, I've never used an application that creates libraries (e.g. Lightroom), doing all my file management manually and launching ACR from Bridge. So this is a big thing to get used to. To be honest, I wish I could use CaptureOne that way, but haven't found a way to do so; therefore I will be investing in learning it from the ground up.
In the meantime, at least I have a solution to getting nice, clean files for the star trails. Wish I could to it in ACR, but at this stage, that doesn't seem to be possible.
In case it matters, the files in question are 14-bit RAWs taken using lossless compression.
Any tips, advice or experiences very welcome, be it in the best ways to learn CaptureOne or to make ACR do what I am seeking instead ;-)
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