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Hard to believe, really.
I confess that the two words in the title of this piece are ones I would never have seen writing together. To me processing is simply a mechanical step that stands between the snap and its realization. A necessary if boring interlude which should be made as fast and automated […]
Posted in: Business, Lightroom by: Thomas Pindelski
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Beta testing is the way to go.
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0 Beta allowing all and sundry to bang away at it in a sort of group grope-wiki software development approach which I can only applaud.
Why?
Well look at the catastrophe that resulted when they decided to go it alone. Alternatively, compare this to arrogant […]
Posted in: Software, Humor, Lightroom by: Thomas Pindelski
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Adobe is on target.
No sooner had Adobe issued the updated version 1.4 of Lightroom with enhanced processing controls and support for more cameras, than they had to pull it.
Hence Dr. Pindelski’s Rule #1 of software upgrades: Don’t upgrade until others have done the user acceptance testing for you. Anyone who rushed into Apple’s […]
Posted in: Software, Lightroom by: Thomas Pindelski
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Automating sharpening on import.
One of the first things I have to do when processing images imported from my Canon 5D (or the Lumix LX1 for that matter) is to sharpen the RAW image. This is standard operating procedure for digital cameras and has nothing to do with poor native image quality. The process simply negates […]
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Some convenient enhancements.
Since publishing my first piece on how to profile monitors and printers for use with Lightroom, I have made a couple of interesting discoveries.
First, I listened to Adobe Podcast#1 (with Mark Hamburg, Kevin Tieskoetter and Jeff Schewe) from Apple’s iTunes store (search podcasts on “Lightroom”) which speaks to profiling (they are speaking about […]
Posted in: Technique, Lightroom by: Thomas Pindelski
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To Photoshop, that is.
While the slightly up-tilted camera distortion is not that bad here, a quick round trip (Command-E on a Mac) from Lightroom to Photoshop CS2 and a few seconds with the ImageAlign plug-in sets things dead straight. Command-S in CS2 saves the corrected version as a TIFF file in Lightroom. ImageAlign is […]