When I click '?' in the menu or hit the F1 key, what comes up is a window with two columns, just like what you show. Oddly, the left-hand one (navigation) works as it should, but the right-hand one stays blank. That is, no help text appears. This is not helpful.I don't use the PL inline help, but i have just checked on my system, and it works, ie. clicking on top menu bar "?" > "Hilfthemen" , but shortkey call F1 doesn't (could be configurable in Wine settings).
When I click '?' in the menu or hit the F1 key, what comes up is a window with two columns, just like what you show. Oddly, the left-hand one (navigation) works as it should, but the right-hand one stays blank. That is, no help text appears. This is not helpful.
OK, I sent an email to PhotoLine support.
The answer was that the "help system is something Windows specific":OK, I sent an email to PhotoLine support.
But this is contradicted by @antonio_b who showed us a screencap with the help system working, in fact, under Wine.It is possible, that Wine is not able to display this correct.
You can use the PDF manual from
www.pl32.com/plbin/manual.zip
When I click '?' in the menu or hit the F1 key, what comes up is a window with two columns, just like what you show. Oddly, the left-hand one (navigation) works as it should, but the right-hand one stays blank. That is, no help text appears. This is not helpful.
The answer was that the "help system is something Windows specific":
But this is contradicted by @antonio_b who showed us a screencap with the help system working, in fact, under Wine.
This is odd. Does it have something to do with language? @antonio_b seemed to be using German.
Does it have something to do with language? @antonio_b seemed to be using German.
Interestingly, while playing with DSLR scanning and stitching large images together with Affinity, I discovered that the "Auto Colors" option under Affinity did a pretty accurate job of fixing colors, either pre- or post- inversion, at least on Portra 400 film.
The flavor is Ubuntu.it may be that in your WINE settings, the HTML rendering engine used by Microsoft to display help books is missing. The name of this wine component is "wine-gecko". Typically it is downloaded and installed the first time that "winecfg" is run: a small window pops asking authorization (Wine Gecko Installer) , same for the other component called "Wine Mono". I guess this is automatic in main distributions like Debian. What is your Linux flavor?
I had another reply from PhotoLine support. I was told to do the following:it may be that in your WINE settings, the HTML rendering engine used by Microsoft to display help books is missing. The name of this wine component is "wine-gecko". Typically it is downloaded and installed the first time that "winecfg" is run: a small window pops asking authorization (Wine Gecko Installer) , same for the other component called "Wine Mono".
This is way over my head, but it has to do with Gecko, right? Anyway, it helped, and PhotoLine's help now displays correctly. That's just as well, because I really need it.wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47.1/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi
wine msiexec /i wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi
I had another reply from PhotoLine support. I was told to do the following:
wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47.1/wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi
wine msiexec /i wine-gecko-2.47.1-x86_64.msi
This is way over my head, but it has to do with Gecko, right? Anyway, it helped, and PhotoLine's help now displays correctly. That's just as well, because I really need it.
On the other hand, i had the wild idea to try this on a Mac computer, too. But here, I can't figure out how to tell PhotoLine where the ColorPerfect plugin resides. Oh well. Macs are different.
I am fairly certain that NLP and Negmaster do not. Their authors have explained the mechanics on a couple of occasions. C41 films have a well-known and documented sensitivity offsets for their YCM layers, trying to "guess" color balance via auto-colors would be stupid.
I use Ubuntu. Now, with the help issue solved, I got so far as to shoot a roll of Fuji Pro 400H and develop it. This was my first time developing color negative film, and I approached it with some trepidation. But, well, it was no big deal with the Cinestill Cs41 pack. The negatives look OK, but the positives I get when converting with ColorPerfect/VueScan/RawTherapee do not. I wish I knew whether it's the developing or the converting that is the problem. Of course, I get terrible colors almost every time I try to convert a negative...yes that's it: the wine-gecko component, which as said earlier is an HTML engine used by Windows for displaying the helps. It could had been installed directly from the package/software management of your Linux distribution also. What Linux flavour do you use?
I use Ubuntu. Now, with the help issue solved, I got so far as to shoot a roll of Fuji Pro 400H and develop it. This was my first time developing color negative film, and I approached it with some trepidation. But, well, it was no big deal with the Cinestill Cs41 pack. The negatives look OK, but the positives I get when converting with ColorPerfect/VueScan/RawTherapee do not. I wish I knew whether it's the developing or the converting that is the problem. Of course, I get terrible colors almost every time I try to convert a negative...
(I developed the film myself because the local shops that still offer this service are getting fewer and fewer, and farther and farther.)
I'm confused here, probably because I know Lightroom pretty well, but not ACR or Photoshop (where I am a true noob). If you do the actions in Photoshop, isn't that where the inversion takes place? So why is ACR involved?
Do you have a link for the source for any of these actions?
Thanks for that Tim!Phil, I promised you I'd package up my actions and write up my process. I make no claims to be a professional at PS, action writing, photography, or even writing, so no promises are being made. In fact, I can't even vouch for the quality of the work I do for a living, which is very far away from photographyWhile I think most of what I do in ACR/PS isn't anything fancy for B&W negatives, it's similar to the concept of operations for color negatives, hence the two stage process.
Actions are here: https://125px.com/articles/photography/digital/b-w-film-scan-processing/BWactions.zip
Write up is here: https://125px.com/articles/photography/digital/b-w-film-scan-processing/
Me too. Thanks!Thanks for that Tim!
They do not. Two parallel lines will remain parallel in another coordinate system. If the gamut is big enough, you are not "deforming" anything, you are simply changing labels on X/Y/Z. If I measure your height in inches vs centimeters you're not going to become taller or shorter. And if I do this in 3D, the relationship between your arms and legs will not change just because their coordinates are in inches now.
That's exactly what colorspace transforms are: rotating (if the image fits within both) or rotating + scaling down (when it does not fit into the target space).
On your visualization, just pretend that the size of the space (gamut) is bigger than your monitor can show, then moving your sliders will not move a single pixel. And this is indeed what you will see by converting a photo from one wide colorspace to another, while staring at it on a sRGB monitor.
What Adrian is saying, is that there's another transformation taking place which is not a trivial matrix multiplication, and I will be reading up on that.
shoot a roll of Fuji Pro 400H and develop it. This was my first time developing color negative film, and I approached it with some trepidation. But, well, it was no big deal with the Cinestill Cs41 pack. The negatives look OK, but the positives I get when converting with ColorPerfect/VueScan/RawTherapee do not. I wish I knew whether it's the developing or the converting that is the problem. Of course, I get terrible colors almost every time I try to convert a negative...
This isn't a problem in RA-4 printing, because RA-4 paper isn't sensitive in the bands where this nonlinearity occurs, the paper is actually sensitive only in pretty narrow bands for each channel. When you scan a negative with white light, your camera is picking up the entire spectrum, including the areas where the negative channels are non-linear, and that is what causes the problem above.
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