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Photoshop/Lightroom replacement
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tenmangu81
Well-known member
Yes : Phocus !!
Otherwise, you'll completely lose the wonderful Hasselblad colours, but using Lightroom and ACR/Photoshop give good results, very, very close to Phocus colours in most cases.
Otherwise, you'll completely lose the wonderful Hasselblad colours, but using Lightroom and ACR/Photoshop give good results, very, very close to Phocus colours in most cases.
mristuccia
Well-known member
If you go for Phocus, just stick with the latest 3.x version for now.
Avoid using version 4.x as it is still very unstable, slow and lagging.
Avoid using version 4.x as it is still very unstable, slow and lagging.
wallpaperviking
Active member
Affinity just announced it is now free... Worth a look to see if it works for you.. 
tenmangu81
Well-known member
I tried Affinity and was not convinced with the colours on demosaicing. It's better to use it on TIFF once having exported from Phocus (or Lightroom).
Interesting. I was using Phocus first and after minimal processing exported tiffs which I imported into C1. But after C1 raised my pricing to $276/year I said enough after more than 10 years of using C1. Since I have always paid for PS/LR I decided to try LR since it accepts 3FR files directly. I have not used Phocus since, but now wonder if I should try Phocus again and exporting those tiffs for use with LR and PS? Any comparisons?
tenmangu81
Well-known member
Exporting TIFFs from Phocus for opening them in Lightroom doesn't seem to me relevant, as Lightroom does about the same job as Phocus. There is no visible difference in most cases between Phocus and Lightroom as far as colours and histograms are concerned.
I remember a test performed by Matt Grayson that you can find here:
https://www.getdpi.com/forum/index.php?threads/phocus-adobe-lightroom.75030/#post-898574
But once you have developed the Blad files using Phocus or Lightroom, you can export them as TIFFs to finish the job with Photoshop or Affinity.
I used Capture One for years when I had Leica cameras, but can't do it any longer with my Blad files....
I remember a test performed by Matt Grayson that you can find here:
https://www.getdpi.com/forum/index.php?threads/phocus-adobe-lightroom.75030/#post-898574
But once you have developed the Blad files using Phocus or Lightroom, you can export them as TIFFs to finish the job with Photoshop or Affinity.
I used Capture One for years when I had Leica cameras, but can't do it any longer with my Blad files....