P: Enhance details as option in export menu

[t0bia_s]

I'm u Fujifilm user and I would like to use Enhance details functin during export process of JPG's. Why? Because making new DNG files that are usualy 3 times larger than original RAF is no option to store it for me.

So... Implement Enhance details in process of export would solve this issue. Of course it would be longer process of exporting file, but technically I do not see any issue why that wouldn't be possible to implement.

What do you think?

[F. McLion]

I'm not sure I understand the issue - Could you please elaborate on your issue and your workflow?

When you say "store", why would you export? When the images are imported in Lightroom, all you need to do is to backup the catalog and I assume your originals are backuped anyway - That's it basically.

[Jim Wilde]

@F. McLion 

I think what the OP wants to do is to have Enhance Details run as the (optional) first step of an amended Export function, i.e. the Enhanced file would only be created in the system cache (thus not taking up space on the hard drive), from which the exported file (Jpeg or Tiff I assume) would then be created as the second step. 

Personally, I wouldn't use such an option....I'd like to check the Enhanced file first, in case it needs to be tweaked further, and I'd always want my master images to be the same as any exported file I send out.

But that's just a personal view, it'll be up to Adobe to decide if they think this idea should be implemented.

[F. McLion]

I'm absolutely with you, @Jim Wilde 

[t0bia_s]

@Jim WildeThank you, that is exactly what I mean. Storing triple ammount of data is huge if you are professional photographer who have (and backup) a lot of raw data. Also converting all RAFs to DNG is not an option for me (I store all original RAFs). But having a feature of Enhanced details as option (not must) during export would benefit with using that feature at all (more details and clean image in foliage in exporting JPG's/TIFF's).

I'm not sure what do you mean by having master image same as exported. I export via droplet and usually export in three differnet sizes, so it is never same as preview in Lightroom before export - well in my workflow. I understand that it's different approach than you have, that is why this feature would be optionable.

Honestly I would like to know how many users actually do not use this great feature of Enhancing details beacuse of doubling files and tripling storage.

[F. McLion]

What I (personally) would miss from your workflow is that I would not see what I get before the export. If not happy with the exports, I'd have to revisit development again and export again ... and actually "try" again. From my point of view, I'd like to see what I try to export and look at export more or like as "fire and forget".

But hey, if your process is ok for you, then yes, the addition might make sense in your case, though against LrC's idea of working ... my 0.02

[t0bia_s]

Enhance details will never makes your RAF demosaic in LR worse, so using it in batch during export would be totaly fine for me.

For now I use this feature only on large prints with critical objects like foliage. How often do you use Enhance details?

[F. McLion]

I'm not using it at all.

[JohanElzenga]

I think this would be a valuable option, provided that it is indeed an extra option. So you can either use the current implementation and create a rather large Enhanced DNG next to your raw file, or you select the Enhance option only in a special 'Export as Enhanced File' export preset.

[colind66897557]

This feature is absolutely necessary in lieu of on the fly enhance details. Files produced from enhance details are almost always better, and it shows in large prints or tight crops, but the storage requirements can get insane very quickly. Enhancing must be done sparinly to prevent all our NASs from becoming linear DNG files. 

An export option would be excellent. Approving the preview and then having the actual enhancing occur on export would resolve the storage concerns and save used time by allowing the work to happen as part of a batch operation. Export already takes time, and allowing a few extra seconds to "enhance" prior to converting to the delivery format would be excellent.