Hi Community,
I've been using Corel PHOTOPAINT for many, many years (CorelDRAW since 2.x) but have just upgraded from X8 to 2018 a few days ago. I do a great deal of photo editing.
My problem is that PHOTOPAINT 2018 appears to be rendering noise into images opened in that app. So far, it's happening with .jpg, .tif, .png and cr2 raws after import. I'm at a loss to fix it.
My monitors are well and truly calibrated, I have ICC profiles installed, I've set rendering intent to perceptual, but no matter what I do, I can't remove the rendered noise.
Here's two comparisons between PHOTOPAINT 2018 and Photoshop CC 2018 - but it could equally be Lightroom, Win10 Photos, or even Gimp.
If someone could point me to the culprit settings, I'd be hugely grateful!
Yes, please let us know what you get out of this.To me though, it still sounds like Lightroom might be doing something, not PhotoPaint (sound like I'm trying desperately to defend Corel, which I'm not), and that you are still comparing how it looks on screen, which is not necessarily what the file actually contains.What you should do is to compare a part of the file at high magnification in different apps, to see whether there really are differences between individual pixels.Like we said, PhotoPaint do not make these changes unless you tell it to. Save non destructible without compression and without changing size or color mode, and every single pixel should be in place.
I can only tell you that the digital noise I saw in the supplied Image was indeed there. How it got there I have no idea, you can see it in applications other then Photo-PAINT only at high zoom settings. The noise can be confirmed using the eyedropper tool. If you post a link to the RAW version of that image I can convert it using AfterShot Pro and see what it does. I can also teel you that Photo-PAINTS default display has not changed for many cycles.