Mismatch in crop/level adjustments across multiple layers using NIK plugin

Gerald Uhlhaas

• February 06, 2022 23:09

Hi,

when using multiple layers you often want to apply different blending options. I have a picture where I have adjusted the level with crop tool first then opened a NIK Collection Plugin for further adjustments. I have assumed that my underling picture is the baseline and with the adjustments made on crop/level settings. When I got back my new picture on the new layer it was not matching with the level settings. I tried to adjust manually but fail to bring both layers in sync of orientation. Do I something wrong, can this be a bug or should I never apply adjustments on crop/level when using plugins before?  Thank you for your feedback and experiences.

Kind Regards,
Gerald 

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  Brian Lawson Community moderator

  • February 06, 2022 23:48

  I haven't tried the NIK plug-ins but in the past there was a problem with the Topaz plug-ins not recognizing the crop. That was fixed in the latest release though. This could be related. I don't know if the problem lies with the NIK plug-in or with how Photo RAW is working with it. You'll have to ask tech support about that.

  For now I would wait to do the cropping until after sending to NIK. You're still going to see the underlying layer where the image has exposed around the edges so you'll have to crop that out or fix it with other methods.

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  David Tillett

  • February 07, 2022 02:58

  

  I reported this way back in the beta testing of the original 2022 release, and it was accepted as a bug to be fixed in due course.

  It is a general issue with plugins, not restricted to NIK. What happens is that cropped and levelled version of image is sent to a plugin and comes back as new layer. However application of crop and levelling sits at the top of the On1 processing pipeline and applies to whole image not individual layers, so new layer gets second rotation.

  Depending on how accurate you need the alignment you can apply Transform to new layer and rotate it back until it aligns with original image, setting blend mode to difference can help with this. However, when I checked this just now I couldn't get a complete black result.

  I would go with Brian's suggestion and leave cropping and levelling until the end of the editing. I have been doing this for a while to give myself freedom to change the crop later without running into issues with new crop revealing areas that have not been included in any masking etc. It is only the rotation that seems to cause the problem, so you could crop first and then leave levelling until the end of the process.

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