Trying to knit my 2007 pics of Langdale fells, 350D+DPP editing, with 2008 pics taken in far worse light conditions but armed with D80 & capture NX, I have found the 2007 embarrassingly oversaturated and overdramatised.

The point of this thread is that I have found I cannot continue on conversions from CR2 done in DPP as they disintegrate and become a noisy mess under NX treatment.

However doing a minimum adjustment conversion from CR2 to tif using PSE4, I get a file on which I can do the more serious editing in NX with reasonable results. Still rapidly abandoned attempts to do the later editing in PSE. In NX one can work on the Luminance (in LCH) without resort to levels or curves and likewise do mild colour corrections using the Chroma part of LCH and/or a mild 'Colour balance'.