Sharing treated DNGs

[Argonauta]

I need some help. I work with Lightroom Classic, on DNG files, using the Negative Lab Pro Plugin. After that I need to send the DNG to the production team, but what I have on my machine is very different from what they see, with the same version of LRC, and calibrated monitors. Do they need to have Negative Pro installed to read the information I recorded? I appreciate any help
Marcos

[Digitizer]

Welcome to the forum @Argonauta

The DNG that is exported by Lightroom Classic has metadata that point at NLP and the applied profile and possibly other information that the production machines will not understand without having NLP installed.

If the production team is supposed to work on positives, you’ll have to send them JPEG or TIFF files, preferably in 16 bit TIFF. If you want them to continue with RAW files, they need to have NLP. I see no other way than that.

[Harry]

There was this old 2019 thread where Nate recommended ‘Exporting as a catalog’ in order to transfer the file successfully to someone else using NLP, I’ve never tried it myself.

Moving NLP-edited files between computers

Hey all, Recently started using Negative Lab Pro and love it - huge time saver. My frequent workflow is to edit on my laptop, then copy files over to my desktop for archiving. Typically, I use Lightroom’s “Export as Catalog” feature to move between the two machines. With Negative Lab Pro, is there anything I need to be aware of when moving photos between computers, assuming it is installed on both of them? Thanks!

Elsewhere around the same time he suggested that he might look at incorporating settings in a DNG file but I don’t know if anything came of it. Generally he recommends just exporting a tiff from within NLP.

I think it’s a bit dodgy sending a RAW file to an agency anyway really, never mind NLP, surely you just want to send them the file as you have processed it so a 16-bit Tiff should cover that.

[Argonauta]

@Harry

I think it’s a bit dodgy sending a RAW file to an agency anyway really, never mind NLP, surely you just want to send them the file as you have processed it so a 16-bit Tiff should cover that.

Thanks for the tips but I’m not sending RAW to an agency, just to our internal work team. I’ll try sending it as a catalog!

[Harry]

…as well as selecting images and using “File - Export as a catalog” you could also create a Collection first and export that as a catalog. It might act as a reference to what you’ve done and why. Same thing as far as NLP goes.