Pleas confirm if this workflow makes sense (Photolab + Nik)

Absolutely; Yes - - Viveza’s capabilities are pretty much replicated within standard PhotoLab tools … even more-so if you have a Film-Pack license too (which enables additional capabilities from within PL).

As others have noted, there can be benefit from Nik tools ColorEfex & AnalogEfex that’s not available with PL - - and SilverEfex too, if you don’t have a Film-Pack license.

As @Egregius pointed out, there’s no need to apply output sharpening with Nik tools

  • If you’re NOT resizing during Export to Disk then the auto-applied Lens Sharpness Optimisation (for your specific camera+lens combo) is very good: Job done !

  • If you do resize your images (during Export to Disk) then you can choose between two different “interpolation” algorithms to apply 2 extremes of Output Sharpening

  • AND, and a recent discovery (see here) now makes it possible to select one’s personal preference for degree of Output Sharpening to be applied during the inperpolation process - rather than accepting the (previously assumed) limitations of soft/mushy (Bicubic) or very sharp (Bicubic Sharper).

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