For more information, see Selective Tool 2, Meta-presets and the Brush tool, in the Working with Adobe Photoshop chapter.įor optimal use of Dfine 2 and to avoid accumulating noise corrections which could affect the details of your image, we advise you to deactivate the noise reduction functions both on your camera and in the host software. Image: Gilles Theophile Dfine 2 in noise reduction mode.ĭfine 2 also offers specific noise correction brushes for use in Adobe Photoshop. The module handles both contrast noise and color noise, letting you automatically or manually analyze your images, which you can fix globally or selectively, using Control Points or color ranges. There is no issue when exporting Nikon NEF (with or without exitfool modifications) to Dfine2 (both Nik Collection 3.3 and 4.Unlike the other modules in the Nik Collection, Dfine 2 is the only one designed to deal with a particular problem: digital noise.

The same issue also happens with Nik Collection 3. If I export file1.jpg to Nik Collection Color Efex,save the changes then export the TIF to Dfine2.Dfine2 started but displayed the error message “The file file1_Nik.tif could not be opened because its file format is not supported”.Open file1.jpg in PL5 and export to Nik Collection Dfine2 as TIFF 16-bit or 8-bit.Open file1_orig.jpg and export to Nik Collection Dfine2 as TIFF 16-bit or 8-bit.Open PL 5.1.2 and navigate to this folder.Use GeoSetter (the user interface for exiftool) to add a time zone to file1.jpg and save the changes….Create a new folder and drop two copies of the same JPEG file there.

The same issue also happened with PL 5.1.1. When the original copy of the same files were exported by PL 5.1.2, the corresponding TIF could be opened by Dfine2 without any problems. I am new to the forum so the forum does not allow me to attach any file.Īfter more tests, I found that this only happened on those JPEG files that were modified by exiftool.

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