Thanks Godfrey, Ann, Paul, Derby, Rick, Peter: Yes, I did do one tutorial at the Adobe site. I did it after I fooled around with this shot; it made the tutorial more meaningful since I had played with sliders etc. I couldn't believe what I was seeing in the tutorial. (I can do that? Wow! etc) I did desiderate this a lot on purpose. The original lettering on the boat was orange! I also purposefully applied a vignette. It was a very cloudy day when my husband & I went for our riverboat ride. Thanks Godfrey, for the PEF/DNG response. It helped a lot. Before investing in Lightroom, I think I have to get my harddrive back-up situation all sorted out. Blazing Bally-Wag, that'll be another dent in this lady's handbag! Thanks again, everyone. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Re: PESO: My First Lightroom Rendering with question > On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> small >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990 >> >> larger >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7143990&size=lg > > Very nice. > >> Anyway, here's the question: do you primarily shoot PEFs or DNGs >> since >> Lightroom does PEFs? Any preferences or does it even matter. This >> shot is >> a DNG. > > I have the K10D set to capture in PEF format. When I import to > Lightroom, I have it convert to DNG on the fly directly from card to > computer hard drive, and make a backup copy of the PEFs on a RAW > archive drive. (With *ist D and *ist DS files, the DNGs would be > about 40% smaller than the native camera PEFs, but on the K10D the > PEFs are losslessly compressed so they end up about the same size.) > > The resulting DNG files process identically to the PEFs. The > difference is in how Lightroom stores the editing information when > you elect the "Metadata->Save to File" command or if you have it set > to automatically sync the metadata into the files. With PEF files, > the metadata is written to a .XMP sidecar file in the same directory > as the PEF file. With DNG files the metadata is appended to the .DNG > file. This makes the DNG format files a little easier to manage as > you cannot accidentally lose your metadata edits. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
