30 July 2008
Adobe Lightroom 2 is out. It seems pretty neat with lots of nice new features! What really got me going was reading about the Camera profiles
which are meant to reproduce the colours you get straight out of your camera.
I tried the camera profile for the EOS 30D with the Faithful
picture style. It's pretty close, but it still renders colours slightly differently. It should be said, this profile is labelled a beta so it might improve for the final release, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
ps. I'm now a married man so don't waste your time on sending love e-mails.
Edit: After a few more quick tests, it seems that they have fixed one of my love-to-hate bugs in Lightroom 1: When exporting a JPEG, with all the develop settings at default (0), Lightroom 1.x would still change the colours of the picture slightly. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case with Lightroom 2.
Labels: 30D, canon, lightroom, photography
05 January 2008
Since I only use Lightroom for keywording my JPEG photos, I want to be able to save my keywords to the JPEGs without changing the actual image at all.
The fact that Lightroom by default modifies the look of JPEGs even though I haven't touched a single slider is pretty annoying, but now I have found the solution.
When exporting the photos (Ctrl+Shift+E) you can choose to export the original image data untouched by lightroom's mischievous fingers. To do this, select the "Original" option under File settings -> Format, in the Export dialogue.
Then, when I hit Export, the images will be saved in a new location. They will be exact copyies of the original, but they will be keyworded just as I want them, with synonyms, etc.
You may think: Why doesn't he just hit Ctrl+S to save the keywords to the original files? Well, because that action won't save keyword synonyms, and it doesn't obey the checkboxes Include on export
and Export parents
. So I'd get all my keyword categories saved to the photos as well (for instance Colour and shape
), which I really don't want there...
Labels: lightroom, photography
10 November 2007
Sorry for not following up on my previous post earlier. I made a screencast to show you what I've been up to since then. In fact, I made two, because Jing wouldn't let me record more than 5 minutes of video in one go.
But to cut a long story short, I've discovered Adobe Lightroom. It's great, apart from one or two minor drawbacks.
I hope Adobe will fix the problem with keyword synonyms for v1.3!
Labels: lightroom, photography
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