My Agfa CT 18 and CT 21 films often get very harsh blue blotshy skies but Photolab Microcontrast is wonderful with these problems. Only sharpening at export is of any use but even more important are the three variants of contrast. Not all tools are working in practise with the RAW-images I get after repro and sharpening in the Photolab is one. That´s why I have given them a slight brown tone instead.
I was so fed up with the poor quality of Lightrooms previews for many years that the ones in Photolab almost looked unreal.īut I have to say Photolab has given my most value when processing all these old dia images I have, where some has been in a really poor condition after 40-50 years in sub perfect storage often loosing the whole green channel. When we got Photolab with lens corrections, Prime and Deep Prime and Local Adjustments and later the Color Wheel there was no need to look back. It was faster to get a decent result than CO, because it was so easy getting lost there among all the layers but Optics Pro lacked local adjustment tools at that time so I still had to use CO from time to time. After while I felt CO was a little too cumbersome and ineffective. It´s really competent and I first started to use it for tethering when taking repro photos of a lot of old positive color film slides. When I left Lightroom I first went to Capture One.