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When the profiles are named like this, finding and selecting an appropriate profile is not difficult. You
simply check the device mode of the input image (using the Input Image box on the right panel in the
Input Image tab of the Filtration Job Editor) and then select a profile for this device mode from the
list of profiles in a folder.
There is another way to do the same, based on structuring the profile set using the disk folders. For
example, the above Olympus C5050Z profile set could be structured like this:
! Olympus C5050Z
! TIFF
! 2048x1536
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! 2288x1712
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! 2560x1696
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! 2560x1920
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! JPEG
! HQ
! 2560x1696
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! 2560x1920
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! SHQ
! 2560x1696
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
! 2560x1920
ISO 100.dnp
ISO 200.dnp
ISO 400.dnp
Here:
! – disk folder
Olympus C5050Z,
TIFF/JPEG,
HQ/SHQ,
####x####
– the names of disk subfolders
containing device noise profiles
for corresponding device modes.
ISO nnn.dnp
– specific device noise profiles.
In this case, the folder tree enables storing device noise profiles in a structured way, which helps to
select one profile from the set given the device mode of the image to process. This can be especially
useful when you use the popup menu
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to select profiles.
Note that the automatic profile matching provided by Neat Image does work well in both cases: you can
keep the whole set of profiles as a flat list of files in one folder, or you can structure the files into
subfolders. This choice only affects the convenience of manual profile selection, while automatic
profile matching can handle both cases.
If the automatic profile matching is not available (for example, if the images contain no EXIF
information) then you have to use manual profile matching. Therefore, we advise to structure profiles
according to one of the methods above to make your manual work easier.
5.4.2. Documenting profile set
Along with the text comments inside the device noise profiles and their file names, we advise to
document a profile set with a plain text file explaining the following points:
• Author of the profile set, profiling date
• Device name, firmware version
• Device modes that have been profiled in this set
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See paragraph about manual selection of a profile in Step II. Prepare a device noise profile, page 9.