Photo Ninja

[urban_alchemist]

Anyone tried it?

I'm frustrated with Apple's tardiness in camera support (and processing quality), and Lightroom's panel system does my head in. This looks interesting, but don't want to dive right in...

http://www.picturecode.com/index.php

 

[jesse1dog]

Free trial!

jesse

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I just downloaded the trial and am impressed with the tonal rendering and color. Its $130, which is not bad for what it is when you consider that Lightoom 4 is a little more expensive. I have Lightroom, but I'd buy this if I had the money.

 

[funkydog]

Bigger implications for Noise Ninja users. It's EOL and you're SOL. This is the replacement. Limited time $97 upgrade fee if you bought any version (Pro/Home/Bundle/Standalone) of NN before Dec 1 2011. Ouch. I bought the NN Pro licence in 2010 for $80. I'm aware that the Picturecode folks need to eat too but Ouch.

Next bit of news - "Note that, for Photoshop, we will be releasing a plug-in version of Photo Ninja in V1.1; in the meantime you can do your raw conversion in Photo Ninja, render to TIFF, then finish in Photoshop."

 

[sevo]

Bigger implications for Noise Ninja users. It's EOL'd and you're SOL.

So what? There hasn't been anything new to it for quite a few years, and it won't cease to work until Adobe give up backwards compatibility in its plug-in architecture - which they won't do that soon, given that they haven't done so for the past twenty years.

 

[j j]

I'm frustrated with Apple's tardiness in camera support (and processing quality)

But this software supports fewer cameras than Apple.

 

[urban_alchemist]

But this software supports fewer cameras than Apple.

It's the tardiness that I object to. Judging by the programmers' pleas to send data of unsupported cameras, I assume they're going to be more pro-active with camera support than Apple.