There are tons of Lightroom learning and training videos, podcasts and books available. You don't need a special "preset" to get raw image files from the camera to the computer and imported into Lightroom.
I have a list of Lightroom learning resources on my articles page ... http://www.gdgphoto.com/articles/ click on "02 - Lightroom Learning Resources". I suggest starting with the Adobe tutorials for Lightroom 3. There are excellent tutorial sets from Lynda.com, DigitalPhotographyConnection.com, Luminous-Landscape and Scott Kelby training as well. Pick any one and go through it. I teach Lightroom and Photoshop image processing workshops too. My next one up has just been scheduled for Feb 9-10 at the Media Center in Palo Alto, California. I'll have the description and announcements going after the turn of the year. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shot my first batch of RAW images a week ago on a trip to Pittsburgh > occasioned by a death in the family. With Paul Sorenson's help I've gotten > them out of the camera and onto the computer using a LR import preset he had > recommended. I'm a bit disappointed in what I see. Almost nothing is really > sharp. Much is not sharp at all. It seems to be my biggest challenge at the > moment. > > That said, I understand RAW allows more leeway for making post-capture > corrections. There are some images I like that are a little to a lot > underexposed. There is one whole group, in which I'm especially interested, > that were shot at ISO 3200. I have absolutely no idea where to start. There > are so many things that can be changed, I have no idea what the names of most > of them mean -- hue? saturation? luminance? > > A video that Paul recommended to me -- it was about the preset he uses -- > suggests that there are a few especially critical parameters that might > improve these images significantly, and provide me a place to start learning. > I'm open to suggestions about things to try. > > Thanks, > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
