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C1 Pro JPEG Processor Quality

ptomsu

Workshop Member
Folks,

happened today that I compared JPEG from the same files produced with C1 PRO 4.8 and PS CS3.

While the PS CS3 JPEGs look smooth and nice, the C1 Pro one's look grainy and especially in areas with smooth tonality changes they show clear grain.

Am I doing something wrong here?
 
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selsoe

Guest
I just tried processing a P30+ to best jpg in PS and CO4.8. I think the CO output looked sharper and crisper and couldn't identify the issue you describe. What camera do you output from?
 

ptomsu

Workshop Member
I tried both TIFF from PS3 as well as NEFs from a D3.

Both come as JPEGs much better and without so much "noise" FROM PS3.

I also tried Aperture and the quality is similar to PS3.

So either I do something wrong in C1, or it is not as good as the others.
 

ptomsu

Workshop Member
My experience using C1 is output as tiffs then convert the tiffs to jpegs in PS for best results.

tm
Ok, that could be a good workflow then.

Was just curious, as I wanted to use the multiple output processing capabilities of C1 - Tiff, JPEG different qualities - all in one step.

Why can't this work satisfying enough? They can build the best RAW converter, why not also the best JPEG converter?
 

Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
Peter you can setup recipes in the processing tab. You can process a Tiff, Jpeg at any resolution you want at the same time when you process the file.
 
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jmvdigital

Guest
I have found that C1 Pro's JPEG output isn't that great either. Doug at Capture Integration and I had this discussion a few months back. My problem was trying to get C1 to output small (850px) JPEGs from the processing tab, and the results were crispy and pixellated, imho. My workflow is now that I output TIFFs and use those in Photoshop or Lightroom to create web JPEGs. Works for me. Another way to get good JPEGs is to use C1's web gallery output option. Not sure why it processes JPEGs different than the process tab, but it does.
 

Jack

Sr. Administrator
Staff member
Agreed. For the best web jpegs, especially small ones at 900 px or so, I use a batch process in CS4. So far, I have not found anything else comes close in both smoothness with sharpness...
 

Guy Mancuso

Administrator, Instructor
I actually do the same thing from the high res tifs just create a action in CS4 and than make whatever jpeg size i need for a client than put both of a DVD for delivery or upload the jpegs to my .mac account gallery
 

Oleksiy

New member
Folks,

happened today that I compared JPEG from the same files produced with C1 PRO 4.8 and PS CS3.

While the PS CS3 JPEGs look smooth and nice, the C1 Pro one's look grainy and especially in areas with smooth tonality changes they show clear grain.

Am I doing something wrong here?
Yep, same problem. At least for Nikon. Smooth areas and lines in photographs have that grainy noisy look when processed with C1. So I use Capture NX.
 

ptomsu

Workshop Member
Hm

could this not be changed?

A really great SW like C1 should be able to do this better! And it cannot be as bad, because they do it better already for Webpages.

Just my 5c.
 
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