Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

When you copy settings to multiple images, you get the window allowing you to select the specific things to copy. Dumb question, but if I select nothing, are there any settings still copied? Also, are physical locations of selection windows copied and acted upon, or is only the "math" from the first image that gets applied.

Hi Conrad,
If you do not request that a parameter be copied, then each image is treated as singular.
The second question I am not sure what you are asking, but literally, if I draw an ODR box in a specific location at a specific size and color, it will be copied to the same spot at the same size....but it will have its owb reaction on the image....in the spot where it reappears.
Copying ODR across multiple images is not usable for me unless I have multiple shots all identical as in a portrait.
I hope I helped.
Fred

Yes, that helps. It's how I thought the ODR box worked, but can't see how that would be useful very often unless the images were near identical. Here's what I really want to know- let's say I have an image with a grey card, color chart, a crying baby and a partridge in a pear tree. By the ease of ODR boxes and such, I arrive at suitable raw refine settings for it. Now I want to apply that exact same math to other images, shot under the same conditions, regardless of the content of those images. What boxes do I check or not check?

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From what I infer from the above quote, I would have to say, White Balance, SC only.
Fred

Thanks! I'll run some tests with that. Many of my images are sets, to be used for focus stacking, panorama stitching and such. It's usually important that they be processed in exactly the same way for best results. In the past I've just let the camera do jpegs. I doubt it's very smart (the camera), so if I use manual exposure mode and fixed white balance, the images tend to come out the same. I've been trying to move my workflow to raw, so now have to think more about things like this.