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Developing an image • Photography related workflows, conditions and thoughts

maxr — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:27:52 +0000

Hi guys! GH's can take stills too and damn good ones. Let's share workflows, compare apps and results! I personally, organize a 40.000 photos catalog with lightroom. Lr is very versatile but there are times when even it's myriad tricks don't get there. Capture one is giving me pretty nice results (best color engine out there) which doesn't come as a surprise once I got best results with 4/3's ORFs; is also unbeatable at sharpness. Other times I go with raw developer; I like it's simple interface and that I can get closer to "traditional" analogic photography (i.e. DR) look/feel. WHAT ARE YOU USING?

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capture one (linear mode), left • lightroom, center • raw developer, right

Adobe Lightroom 5

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:03:50 +0000

Some new stuff:

Advanced Healing Brush allows customers to heal imperfections and remove distracting elements
Upright tool analyzes an image to automatically level horizons and straighten objects like buildings to correct a keystone effect
Radial Gradient tool creates off-center or multiple vignette effects
Smart Previews allow customers to edit images without needing the original raw file
Video slideshow enables customers to combine still images, video clips and music in a creative HD slideshow
Upgrades to the Book module enhancing the ability to create, customize and order elegant photo books using a variety of tailored templates

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom5/

Lightroom 5 preset bug simple workaround

maxr — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:11:10 +0000

Some LR 5 users, myself included, have reported a huge slowdown while just going through a preview of the photos in the library module; still present in version 5.4 (Mavericks 10.9.3)
It seems it's a bug related with big amounts of develop presets. So, till almighty sloppy dog adobeeee decides to fix this bug, a workaround is to (please archive first) delete as many as possible. I confirm this is the case. Don't expect miracles, but performance wise you'll notice an increase right away.

Some Windows users had same bug showing differently, when trying to undo, LR applied a preset instead.
SAME WORKAROUND in those cases too =)

Little rant, sorry if you're dating an adobe employee :P

I've been a LR user since version 1 and I don't really know what's going on with the preset indexing or the previewing of images, but since LR 4 it's an awful mess making zero difference being the catalog big or small. That said I’m tired to be continously forced to do things out of my pace and to upgrade / update and find fixings for what seems the pandora box of bugs. For me Lightroom has become very very inefficient, as much as I like grampas, you'll raise hell on earth if you put a 95 year old pot lover directing air traffic at the control tower of a major airport. This is how I feel these days working with LR.

Mavericks doesn't help and neither disabling compressed memory (´sudo nvram boot-args=”vm_compressor=1″´) – actually worsen results – neither purging the memory (´sudo purge´) have had any palpable improvements. So as much I dislike the idea of having yet another step in the process, I started to seriously test Photo Mechanic (which is like the Millenium Falcon to public transportation) and Darktable 1.4.2 (free) as folder based raw image viewers. It has come to a point where I admit that if I hadn’t +35K photos catalogued with LR I’ll switch to other platform… there are certainly better colour engines out there, specially for µFT raws ,-)

That's all folks, viva la amistad!!

Adobe Lightroom for tablets

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:21:32 +0000

Adobe is working on a mobile iOS Lightroom app that will allow users to edit RAW photos from a tablet

FS: GH2 14-140mm Kit, 20mm Pancake, Extra Battery, LCDVF, B+W Filters, Lightroom 3. Berlin/Europe.

lunelson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:27:55 +0000

I'm selling my GH2 kit, a european model bought in summer of 2011 from the UK. I'm based in Berlin and will ship inside Europe. The camera is currently running stock 1.1 firmware. I am selling because circumstances compel me to work with a Canon workflow at the moment.

Edit: the GH2 Kit is now on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270924335681&clk_rvr_id=319379335643&mfe=sidebar#ht_1753wt_1156

Good deals: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom V3

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:48:46 +0000

Price : $79
http://www.adorama.com/ABLRV3MWE.html

Lightroom + Mogrify plugin

stoney — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:54:42 +0000

The plug-in generated so much sharper JPEG. Great for web uploading.