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Silver Efex Pro limits?


 

Does anyone happen to know where to find out what the limits are on the Nik Plugins? I¡¯ve been fighting with a couple photo¡¯s, intending to process them in Silver Efex Pro, only to find out that it apparently can¡¯t handle a 816 Megapixel image.

Zane


 

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It¡¯s unlikely going to be able to handle a file if that magnitude.
Take a look:


On Apr 23, 2023, at 1:12 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh@...> wrote:

?Does anyone happen to know where to find out what the limits are on the Nik Plugins? ?I¡¯ve been fighting with a couple photo¡¯s, intending to process them in Silver Efex Pro, only to find out that it apparently can¡¯t handle a 816 Megapixel image.

Zane









 

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It doesn¡¯t look like they¡¯ve documented the limits. ?While I was unable to do the conversion I was after, I was able to use Exposure x7 on the photo.

I should probably add that the one photo I was attempting to create, Capture One couldn¡¯t stitch together, as it was simply too large. ?This is the ¡°Low-Res¡± pano. :-) ?If I can figure out how to print it, it would be 1 foot by 10 feet.

Zane




On Apr 23, 2023, at 11:36 AM, Jeanne Newman via groups.io <NteBrd@...> wrote:

It¡¯s unlikely going to be able to handle a file if that magnitude.
Take a look:


On Apr 23, 2023, at 1:12 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh@...> wrote:

?Does anyone happen to know where to find out what the limits are on the Nik Plugins? ?I¡¯ve been fighting with a couple photo¡¯s, intending to process them in Silver Efex Pro, only to find out that it apparently can¡¯t handle a 816 Megapixel image.

Zane










 

Hey Zane,

Just curious, why is your image that big. I shoot full frame D850 and they are not that big. Anyway, make the image you are editing smaller to meet size requirements for NIK Silver Effects and then when you are finished, use GigaPixel to enlarge it. It works fantastic.

Interesting size though....are you editing an 8X10 neg?

Regards,
Thomas Forrest

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On 4/23/2023 1:12 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Does anyone happen to know where to find out what the limits are on the Nik Plugins? I¡¯ve been fighting with a couple photo¡¯s, intending to process them in Silver Efex Pro, only to find out that it apparently can¡¯t handle a 816 Megapixel image.

Zane






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It¡¯s intended to be a massive, highly detailed, panorama, and was shot with my Nikon D800 and 70-200mm f/2.8E. I stitched it together using Capture One, and that software couldn¡¯t handle stitching the main attempt together, and has trouble with small portion of the main one. Realistically I¡¯m pushing the limits of the software on multiple fronts with this one, and should take my learnings from this attempt, and reshoot it.

I¡¯m glad you asked if it¡¯s an 8x10 negative. I¡¯ve been planning to create an even higher detailed pano of another subject using either 4x5 or 8x10 film, and then paying for a high-res drum scan. I¡¯m going to have to give this some thought, as if I remember correctly I¡¯ve estimated a similar size for this plan.

I¡¯m currently considering the option of splitting the image up, doing the initial processing in Silver Efex Pro, then recombining it, and finishing it in Photoshop.

Zane

On Apr 25, 2023, at 7:54 AM, Thomas Forrest <n4gvk@...> wrote:




Hey Zane,

Just curious, why is your image that big. I shoot full frame D850 and they are not that big. Anyway, make the image you are editing smaller to meet size requirements for NIK Silver Effects and then when you are finished, use GigaPixel to enlarge it. It works fantastic.

Interesting size though....are you editing an 8X10 neg?

Regards,
Thomas Forrest

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On 4/23/2023 1:12 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Does anyone happen to know where to find out what the limits are on the Nik Plugins? I¡¯ve been fighting with a couple photo¡¯s, intending to process them in Silver Efex Pro, only to find out that it apparently can¡¯t handle a 816 Megapixel image.

Zane






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