I’m a fumbling beginner with PureRaw, and is my main software for noise reduction. Can PureRaw be used as a plug-in and worked with from within Lightroom, or do I need to just work with PureRaw independently and coordinate my workflow as best possible? For instance, I do cropping and adjusting from within Lightroom, but when I load that image into PureRaw, PureRaw does not respect the cropping and uses the full image. No big, but is wasting disk space to not just work with the cropped area of the image I have ready to clean up in PureRaw. Any tips and help is appreciated and TIA, Ken
Best way (imo) is to
- Run a folder of original raw image files through PureRaw, using DNG as output
- Sync the respective folder so that the DNGs appear in Lr
- Sync settings from original files into DPR’s DNGs
Note that colours can shift, I mostly see this with saturated reds
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How do you ‘Sync’ the respective folder so that the DNGs appear in Lr?
I don’t know the process to ‘sync’ - can you explain please as I would love to know how to do this.
Switch to Lightroom’s Library view, select the folder and use the context menu (as shown below) or the respective command in the “Library” menu
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I use the Lightroom Plugin. If your files are not DNG and you don’t have save to XMP enabled (I don’t) all you have to do is this:
–Control-S (for Windows) to save selected file to XMP
–Right click photo, select Export and then Preview and Process in PureRAW 4
–When done processing with your desired settings, you will be returned to LR with image added to a collection
–Right click and select Go To Folder in Library
Result: the DNG created by PureRAW will be next to the Orginal RAW, both with LR edits.
I simplified this a bit more by getting the plugin “Any Shortcut” which is available for $10: Any Shortcut – John R. Ellis Lightroom Plugins
I set the F3 key to invoke “Go to Folder in Library”
Works great. Now if they would just remove the Add to Collection nonsense that most of use don’t want it would be even easier.