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Richas

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I am developing my own film, scanning with DSLR.

I have purchased Lightroom Classic / Photoshop. I am looking for a free option to Negative Lab Pro. I can't afford $100 for that utility. I hav Grain2Pixel working in Photoshop though.

It outputs Tif files. Once in tif format I think I lose functionality in Lightroom, is there a way around this? How would I get Grain2Pixel output imported to Lightroom? For example, when I use NLP I can still use the De-noise feature in Lightroom, but this is not available on the tif file output from Grain2Pixel.

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.tif will work in LR. I think I read somewhere that LR won't if the file name contains a character it doesn't like, but not sure so do an internet search on tiff and LR compatibility.
 

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You could do the inversions manually (and thus free), it isn't rocket science. This is especially true for B&W where you really only need to invert the tone curve and set black/white points. Color negative is definitely more tricky, but people do it!
 
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Richas

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I am doing color. I have tried manually but I take forever and it is never as good as NLP or G2P. :smile:

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It outputs Tif files. Once in tif format I think I lose functionality in Lightroom, is there a way around this? How would I get Grain2Pixel output imported to Lightroom? For example, when I use NLP I can still use the De-noise feature in Lightroom, but this is not available on the tif file output from Grain2Pixel.

The new AI de-noise is only available with raw files (you can still use the "traditional" manual noise reduction). Good news is, you probably don't want that AI denoise on your film scans as it most certainly wasn't trained on film scan files.

You can probably still run raw files through AI densoise before inverting, export to tif and then use G2P.
 

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I use darktable and RawTherapee, they are the best I could find that work on Linux.
Both work with RAW and TIFF files and have plugins for converting colour negative films.
I have purchased Lightroom Classic / Photoshop.

Is this a subscription?
 
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Richas

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I use darktable and RawTherapee, they are the best I could find that work on Linux.
Both work with RAW and TIFF files and have plugins for converting colour negative films.


Is this a subscription?

It is a subscription, which I hate. I would like to find a one-time purchase software package for Mac....
 
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