New spp 6.0 may have a bug

i hope there are easier to use controls for colour temperatures and the colour mixer. those were the worst parts to play with because there was no easy way to pick the right combination. i don't have my merrill anymore but maybe a better version of SPP might bring me back.

and hopefully a CROPPING tool?... basic basic features. i find in general software from the japanese electronics companies to be terrible to use.
 
so i just tried it out, somehow they have made the user interface even worse (how is that possible?). in the editor, the toolbar seems even thicker than i remembered because they have chosen to stack some controls instead of stretching across like they did in the past. therefore more screen space is wasted.

the "Advanced Settings" that used to be on the right hand side are now undockable into three panels:
1: Adjustment Mode, Tonal Adjustments, Highlight Control, White Balance Setting, Color Mode
2: Noise Reduction, Chromatic Aberration Correction, Fringe Correction
3: Histogram, Navigation

The windows cannot be snapped in custom order, it is always 1, 2, 3. Therefore I cannot get the histogram to be at the top like most RAW editors. Secondly when everything is docked there are three separate scroll bars and becomes even harder to find things than before (maybe some of you prefer the configurability?). it's totally scroll city. the small tiny font does not help.

The one positive is now the old fidgety colour wheel has been replaced with a colour square that is a lot easier to use and fine tune. in the rumors site they mention that white balance temperature is only available for the quattro cameras which is pretty disappointing. getting the white balance right in the past was quite difficult.

one of the reasons i sold my sigma was because dealing with SPP was such a pain in the ass. doesn't look like i'm coming back for a while. photography is a hobby for me but this just seems like such a waste of time at this point.
 
FA Limited said:
one of the reasons i sold my sigma was because dealing with SPP was such a pain in the ass. doesn't look like i'm coming back for a while. photography is a hobby for me but this just seems like such a waste of time at this point.
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I treat the Merrill more like a film camera. SPP isn't great, so take I take fewer shots, but more keepers. Drop sharpness, fiddle with exposure and fill, then export a 16bit tiff to Aperture and work there.

Downloading now...
edit: nvm, Sigma took it down for the time being. bugz.
 
i have tried it.....i suppose its a matter of getting use to it.
i like the blues it gives me.
 
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am waiting with interest how 6.1 process my pre-Merril files. hope the UI is more responsive and intuitive (though am not holding my breath :p ).
 
FA Limited said:
one of the reasons i sold my sigma was because dealing with SPP was such a pain in the ass. doesn't look like i'm coming back for a while. photography is a hobby for me but this just seems like such a waste of time at this point.
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I tend to create spp profiles that I use for batch processing, so I don't have to worry about the spp details a lot. I just bring up spp, select the files I want to use under a specific profile during the batch processing menu and set everything to tiff16 output and let it rip.

Once it is done, I send it to Aperture for all the real photo editing work I want done.

That then leaves me the files that need special attention (needs spp specific editing), which now tend to be a very small minority.

Gary
 
GaryLH said:
I tend to create spp profiles that I use for batch processing, so I don't have to worry about the spp details a lot. I just bring up spp, select the files I want to use under a specific profile during the batch processing menu and set everything to tiff16 output and let it rip.

Once it is done, I send it to Aperture for all the real photo editing work I want done.

That then leaves me the files that need special attention (needs spp specific editing), which now tend to be a very small minority.

Gary
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i used to take a file, get it as nice as possible in SPP then export as a TIFF. bring it back into LR and convert to DNG just to save some space. then work on it via LR. it's just so much work overall and i have settled very comfortably in LR now in my workflow from beginning to end that anything that is outside of LR seems like a hassle.
 
I'm running the freshest OS X software, and Sigma Photo Pro 6 is crashing every time I try to select a folder. Frustrating.
 
I am running 6.02. Still seems to be a bit buggy to me. I think they rushed it out for the Quattro release in Japan.

Gary
 
As long as SPP isn't crashing I don't care if it has cropping tool. For me RAW processor means step to get TIFF or JPG file, anything else happens in image editor. I don't have hundreds of pictures daily and selections brings them down to just couple so I'm OK with SPP even if it's slower and haven't got some features ca-no-fu-pus SW offers.
 
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