Nomenclature of Adjusted Images vs Master

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Nomenclature of Adjusted Images vs Master

Today I am playing around with my NIK plug-ins for the first time. I knew beforehand when I hit the 'Save' button on the lower right hand side of the screen, the adjusted images is saved as a Tiff file. That much is clear.

However, when I journey back and have the MetaData List view up on the screen, the Raw File and Tiff File are right there to see, highlighted. And a column for File Name clearly identifies them each. File size is another clear demarkation. So, here is my question: A column labeled 'Nikon' refers to both files as simply 'Nikon'.

Is that only to identify what camera was used in the capture?

Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), running an iMac

Posted on Sep 2, 2013 12:27 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 2, 2013 4:13 PM in response to daikambu65

Without knowing what column you are exactly referring to I would say what you are seeing is the EXIF data for the file. That is set by the camera when the image is taken which is why both images you look at have Nikon in that field.

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Answer 2

Sep 2, 2013 4:42 PM in response to daikambu65

Aperture copies the metadata from the raw file to the TIFF because it's relevant and useful even when the file is no longer raw. If you shot JPEG instead of raw, you'd find this same metadata embedded by the camera into the JPEG.

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Sep 2, 2013 5:14 PM in response to Mark Alan Thomas

By playing around in a few different Projects, I see that the column named NIKON displays RAW, FINE, NORMAL etc, indicating image format.

So much to learn, but I'm having fun. here's a screenshot of the data field --- look to the far right.

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Answer 4

Sep 2, 2013 5:22 PM in response to daikambu65

Yeah. That list/spreadsheet view can be extremely useful.

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