OM Workspace - Exposure Compensation and Recovering Highlights & Shadows
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- OM Workspace Masterclass: Correct the exposure and utilize the full dynamic range of your RAW files with these advanced RAW processing techniques.
In-depth guide for demanding photographers.
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Video Content:
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Exposure Compensation Tool
3:35 Exposure Adjustment - Tone Curve
4:58 Recovering Shadows
7:22 Recovering Highlights
9:28 Closing Remarks
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Finally we reach the waited lesson: how to adjust low and high lights. I have a lot of photos waiting for a correction in low lights, with correct exposure, but with dark zones contain interesting but hidden information. I didn't understand that gradation is a powerful tool. Thank you very much for this entire lesson. Very very good the examples shown. Sergio from Milano
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much... I never realised OMW was so capable in recovering highlights and shadows - much better than other software I use!
Most welcome! Yes, OM Workspace is quite capable, although it does not look like it at first glance.
Many thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for another good tutorial, looking forward to more in the series
Many thanks!
Powerful software!
Indeed!
Fantastic, Copernican revolution on OM Workspace use! Great "Gradation" tool. Great "Exposure compensation" effect. Great Thomas with his professional exposition of "how to" with OM Workspace. I hope other elements about this theme. Sergio from Milano
Thank you very much Sergio!
I will definitely continue with this series and illustrate more features of OM Workspace and how to edit with it. Many thanks again for your continued support!
Best wishes from Vienna!
Brilliant, I really appreciate your insights on the functionalities within OM Workspace. It is the only editing tool that I use when editing my photos.
Great to hear! Many thanks!
Thank you once again! I did not realise that the exposure adjustment works differently from all the other software that I have been using, and also did not realise that the tonal gradation tool also works differently. I will really need to explore OM Workspace a lot more as I have been using it just like I would have with Affinity Photo or Photolab 5.
Great video and a must watch for all OM System and Olympus camera users!
Thank you very much!
Yes, OM Workspace is surprisingly good once you get to know all the tricks. It took me a lot of "controlled testing", though.
Many thanks for your continued feedback and thanks for watching!
Excellent as always !
I'm impressed ✨
Many thanks!
Thomas. I love your videos and your clear and easy to understand instructions. And these videos regarding om workspace have really opened my eyes to the potential of it. I’ll be using it more now. I wonder if I will eventually move away from Lightroom and DXO.
Thank you for your great videos 👍 I look forward to the next chapter
Many thanks Richard! I very much appreciate your kind feedback!
Another excellent video!
Many thanks!
This is interesting. I don’t know if I want to dust off our very old and slow PC right now when I’m not yet shooting raw (I want to get better first). I guess I could get a Mac Mini at some point if I need a better computer. But they’re more expensive than they used to be. I’ve been doing everything on my iPad for quite a few years. I thought I’d bought my last pc.
I’ve been using the OM-1 with the OI Share app and it works pretty nicely for what I need. It has some basic image editing functions. But it does allow you to select image styles if you want to, which I think is cool. It would be nice to see them incorporating the OM Workspace features into the app maybe. Or offer it as a separate App Store download.
Also, regarding the EVF, I think the combination of your helpful tip and just using the camera a little while each day is helping my eyes adapt. So thank you for that :) I was worried I’d have to return or even sell it.
Many thanks for sharing that!
I'm glad that the OM-1 is now working for you - it would be very unfortunate otherwise, as it is such a great, capable tool!
Hope it will get even better the longer you use it!
Hello Thomas another great video that gives me info to try with any photos from my Olympus OM-D E-M1X kind regards Howard Rollinson
Fantastic! Thanks Howard!
Thanks Thomas, i see you in the next video 👍
You bet! Most welcome!
Is great idea graduation in camera put it in auto?
Oh yes, you can do that as well!
Thanks for another illuminating clip, Thomas. And it is also - like your other clips - so very, very valuable and easy to follow. I've already decided to bring back OM Workspace to my post-processing since your previous clip on rendering RAW files, but I'm getting far more confidence that its results are worth the effort of using two applications instead of one, to the benefit of my image quality. Interestingly, in Linux+WINE (if you're familiar with these), OMW is far more responsive to use.
Great to hear - please keep me updated how it works out for you in the long run!
@@ThomasEisl.Photography I'll be happy to. Just today, I checked-out a very contrasty image with deep shadows. OMW did a great job of dealing with the shadow. ON1 made a mess of it. Pulling the TIFF exported from OMW into ON1 yielded better results than OMW alone, and ON1 alone.
Great! That's the way to go, then! Many thanks for the update!
Thank you
Welcome!
Very impressive! I usually just over- or underexpose about one or two stops when I mess things up a bit. In DxO PL I use local adjustments like a gradient filter to fix blown out parts if my global adjustments created any. The nonlinear exposure compensation looks even easier! As I use OM Workspace to import my images, I will try this as an alternative next time for comparison.
Many thanks for the feedback!
I have to admit that this Hi & Sh recovery method really surprised me as well - it is very easy, and very capable.
Keep me updated how you like the program in the long run, I'd be interested to know.
Best wishes!
Thank you! Thmas...
Most welcome!
Hey Thomas, excellent content.
Are you going to walk through color profiles and custom color profiles in OM Workspace in the future?
Hey there!
An overview can be found in this video: czcams.com/video/bNdsxDG_cA8/video.html&feature=share7
Next week, I will talk about color grading and also how to utilize the picture modes!
Very nice and helpful video! One question: My copy of OM Workspace has the Histogram shadows set to 5 and highlights set to 251 (the default, I think). Do you recommend changing that to 0 and 255 as you have in the video?
Many thanks David!
This is not that easy to answer - the way I work, I really like that as it will help me to get the maximise the DR / gradation. If I have it set to 5 / 250 for example, I get the clipping warning a bit too early for my taste, as there are still 8 steps for each channel before full black / white.
I will provide a video on that in the future!
Thanks for this guide! What hardware specs does your PC have? On my i5 11400f / GTX 970-combo every little change takes 5-7 to become visible, making the editing process really tedious. Would a GPU-update help?
Most welcome! I don't recall which card I used to be honest, but upgrading yours will sure help. You should also try USB processing, it might be the "free" solution.
Excellent tutorial. Does Olympus workspace offer masking?
Many thanks!
No it does not - I export 16-bit TIFFs to Affinity Photo for local adjustments. The combo works very well for me.
Love your videos! Do you really think that workspace is the best tool for OM Systems, compared to others like Adobe , DXO, Onone ? I find that it is not as intuitive as some other programs.
Many thanks!
At the moment, it is definitely my go-to converter for anything OM System / Olympus. In conjunction with Affinity Photo for local adjustments/retouching, it is definitely very capable!
Thank you for the video. I am using om workspace for most of my photos and so far it was not clear how the shadow and highlights recovery works. It seems that there is different approach than Lightroom. The shadow and highlights section is closer to blacks and white slider of Lightroom and in order to get better shadows we need to combine gradation and tone curves. This combination makes things a bit more complicated for beginners. I will keep using om workspace as I really like the colour reproduction
Many thanks for sharing your experiences and your feedback!
I agree, Workspace requires a different approach than other programs, but the reward is excellent color reproduction.
Yes! I've tried to use highlight slider in OM Workspace couple of times to get rid of highlights, but they just became grey (very disappointing). Now I will try the algorithm of this video and I'm very optmistic about it!
Great to read!
Hi Thomas, I am enjoying your videos, I am a great believer in using proprietary software for RAW file processing and I use spot metering to pin my highlights and shadows. My question is this, I use Nikon NX studio, it looks very similar to OM workspace, I assume gradation function is like Active D-Lighting in NX studio and that the exposure compensation tool works in the same manner as OM Workspace in terms of how it compresses highlights and shadows ?
Hi there!
Active D-Lighting is indeed very similar to the Gradation feature. It is not 100% identical, but very similar, as you've said.
Nikon NX Studio is an excellent RAW converter, I use it as well when I shoot with my Nikon D800.
Best, Thomas
Thanks, Thomas! What about AI NR in workspace?
Yes, it works great, I'd say. I myself don't use it as I like a bit of "grain" but I'm glad the function exists. Do you use it?
@@ThomasEisl.Photography I am don't use it because my PC with AMD video card and ai don't work.
Ah alright. I would not worry about that - it really is not necessary to get outstanding results. It's a bonus, but not a necessity.
A question. Is a good method using Wspace to manage RAW and then exporting to Lightroom to make selective adjustmenrs? Thanks
Yes, although I would recommend using affinity photo as a second tool instead of Lightroom, but yes, that works and is actually what I do.
If I process the RAW files in OM Workspace, can I continue RAW editing in DXO Photolab 6 while keeping the adjustments I made in OM Workspace?
Unfortunately not, you would have to export the file as TIFF or JPEG and then work with the next editor. (No longer RAW data in this case)
@@ThomasEisl.Photography Thank you 😀