Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/13

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Subject: [Leica] SEP2 Has No History With LR
From: gwpics at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 22:17:31 +0100
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I am with Tina on this. Although SEP2 is very good, I find that in 9 out of 
10 cases I can get as good if not better results using Lightroom. SEP2 for 
me has limited use.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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On 13 May 2014, at 22:07, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> The problem is that the conversion programs have to convert the raw photo
> to a tiff to work on it.  Then you are starting all over again with a new
> photo with a new history.  If you want to convert the raw photos and keep
> the history, you can just convert it in LR using the Treatment > B&W key
> and working with the tone curves to get the look you want.  That way you
> can go back and forth in the history and still keep your original raw file.
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> OK, enough with the abbreviations.  The problem:  When working on an image
>> in Lightroom I decide I want to see it in b&w and I go through the 
>> commands
>> to open it for editing in Silver Efex Pro 2.  I work on it there and click
>> on the 'save' button and then Silver Efex Pro 2 closes and the b&w image 
>> is
>> opened in Lightroom.
>> 
>> But wait!  I want to review the history of the changes I made to the image
>> while in Silver Efex Pro 2.  Maybe I like them, maybe I don't, maybe I 
>> just
>> want to see what I did.  But I can't.  Any record of what I did is gone.
>> 
>> Nik support has confirmed this to be true.
>> 
>> Is there a b&w conversion plugin that works with Lightroom that does
>> preserve and allow access to a history of what changes were made to an
>> image?
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
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In reply to: Message from robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron) ([Leica] SEP2 Has No History With LR)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] SEP2 Has No History With LR)