I realize that layers enable a better way to work. I've been watching a
professional retoucher who was working in my office, and she uses a new
layer for almost every step. I plan on utilizing them more often. I
have to take the time to experiment a bit.
Paul
On Oct 19, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Interesting that you don't use adjustment layers.
I make edits in small steps through a lot of layers and use masking
extensively to localize the edits. They constitute a huge gain for my
editing workflow ... I can make changes, shift them out, evaluate
befores and afters, etc, very flexibly and easily. It's not just a
matter of being able to step backwards: it allows me to entirely
change a rendering by having alternative adjustment layer groups, all
working on the same background data. If I do screw up the background
image data one way or the other, I can replicate all my edits
immediately by generating another base image from the RAW file and
just applying the edit layers to it.
Godfrey
On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
My scratch disk is on an external firewire drive. A Maxtor 300 gig,
7200 rpm. I don't use a lot of adjustment layers. I tend to work on
the background layer unless I'm uncertain about a given procedure. I
keep 70 layers of history, so there's usually no problem stepping
back if I must. I do some BW conversion, but only about 10% or so.
