View NX 2 vs PSE 9

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This is my first time at this, so please bear with me. This is as much a test as anything else.

I have uploaded a couple of images into my album 'Xjacktar Images' to go with this post. Sorry if I'm doing it wrong. I cannot see how to attach them to this post.

These two images are resized from crops which were around twice the size (linear), I'm not looking for critique of the pictures. Rather, look at the difference in the imaging from processing in Elements 9 vs ViewNX 2.

After first processing in PSE 9, and seeing the pink and green in the shadow of the gull, I tried ViewNX. As you can see, in the ViewNX processed image, no colour artifacts.

Has any of you chaps seen such a thing before, or know how I can avoid it. I use PSE9 by default for all my processing, owing to the limitations of ViewNX. For situations like this (I have one or two other examples) it has to be ViewNX.

p.s.: The colour artifacts were visible immediately from first opening the RAW NEF in ACR.
 
if your shooting in raw , some programs cant process nef properly eg proshow give a green cast to raw, also if the colorspace is set incorectly for the software this can have an effect on the how the images is displayed, and one more posibility is that pse 9 has not got the codec for nef installed

Cheers Steve
 
Dave,

I would have to think that the ViewNX version is the correct colouring, since I don't remember seeing any pink and green on the gull at the time.

Steve,

I bought PSE 9 because I needed the latest ACR for the D7000 (though this was shot with the D700). I believe that the ACR version is good for NEF. This colouring only shows up in an extremely small minority of my shots, where a very light colour is in shadow.
 
What you are seeing is the difference between the camera settings and the default ACR PSE9 settings.

ViewNX will use the settings used in the camera for picture controls, sharpening, saturation etc as a starting point when opening the raw. PSE9 can only read the WB from the raw, the other settings used are the default settings in ACR.

Adobe provide picture controls that are close to the Nikon ones, eg. Landscape, Vivid etc. but they are not exactly the same and do not take into account any settings that have been changed on the camera.

You can open a raw image in ACR, tweak it to how you want to look, then save those settings as default. Every raw opened in ACR will then use those settings as a starting point.
 
jomike said:
What you are seeing is the difference between the camera settings and the default ACR PSE9 settings.

ViewNX will use the settings used in the camera for picture controls, sharpening, saturation etc as a starting point when opening the raw. PSE9 can only read the WB from the raw, the other settings used are the default settings in ACR.

Adobe provide picture controls that are close to the Nikon ones, eg. Landscape, Vivid etc. but they are not exactly the same and do not take into account any settings that have been changed on the camera.

You can open a raw image in ACR, tweak it to how you want to look, then save those settings as default. Every raw opened in ACR will then use those settings as a starting point.
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Mike,

Though I knew most of what you say, you have given me food for thought.

I have set the default values in ACR the way I like them for the camera, and 99% of the time they give me what I want. None of the controls affect this colouring, apart from the noise sliders which merely give it a different pattern.

Looks like I'm stuck with it - for around 0.1% of shots.
 
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