In our Part I Post on Scanning Negatives – Hardware Considerations we discussed the properties of light, film and glass (lenses) in making the perfect photograph. We then showed that these same properties are used to scan the negatives or slides when turning them into digital images. Here we discuss…
Let’s start with a little theory. I propose that the same considerations taken into account in creating a perfect photograph also need taken into account when determining a scanner to convert film to digital negatives. To prove this, let’s start with a brief discussion on the photography. A great photograph,…
The DNG specifications have been updated. See this article in Lightroom Journal.
This is part of my Image Conversion Workflow. This is the point in our workflow where we convert from film or slide to digital. For any photographers, myself included, that still enjoy the quality of a good negative and the absolute perfection of pressing a shutter and immediately getting the…
There are still many film photographers, myself included. Film continues to have an edge over digital in quality of image, especially as it relates to cost. More importantly, the response time of a film camera is instant whereas we still have some delays in digital cameras. Even as they decrease,…
Because Adobe Lightroom works so well on laptops for field or trip work, keeping a tight reign on screen space is important. Even with larger laptop screens, the develop tools and other areas in Lightroom can take up a lot of space needed for image work. Here is a tip…
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta included a new feature called Smart Collections. These collections are created automatically after setting some rules. The rules are very customizable and can filter based on certain data from your images. There is a trick to filtering for some words though that are contained within other…
Lightroom Galleries has released it’s long awaited Lightroom Web Gallery template for creating a complete web site that includes purchasing prints through paypal! The name of the Lightroom template is: LRG Complete. The Complete stands for generating a complete web site. The template consists of three Lightroom Web Galleries that…
Keywords are an extremely beneficial aspect of Adobe Lightroom and the larger the library, the larger the keyword list will be. Managing this list and keeping it efficient to use can be a challenge. Luckily, there are ways to organize and re-organize your hierarchy of keywords. This article will not…
Lightroom 1.x has long had synonyms that can be entered as part of the keyword structure. However, synonyms, while they can be exported with images and libraries, cannot be used in searches. This holds true in Lightroom 2.0 beta. Synonyms help keep the keyword list smaller. In fact, synonyms are…