Same problem, Eric, except I'm trying to prepare a class. LR is too alluring. Besides, how organized do students need me to be, anyway?
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:39, Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >>> >>>> No, when you are done processing your RAW image, everything is >>>> automatically saved. There's no save button to click. But also remember >>>> that with Lightroom, if you come back to a RAW image, and don't like what >>>> you've done, just click the reset button and it will go back to the >>>> original RAW image. You can do this as many times as you want. >>> >>> Thanks, Christine. Good news -- on both counts. >> >> You can also make a "virtual copy" (or MULTIPLE virtual copies) of a >> particularly-tricky image, and then go about it with any number of different >> methods on each copy. >> >> I do this when I want to edit some square-cropped images to put on my phone. >> Or if I want to experiment with a B&W copy of a particular image. >> >> For quick 'n' dirty "let's see what the automatic settings do" editing, on >> the Mac it's CMD-U to set the brightness levels automatically, and >> CMD-SHIFT-U to set the "tone". >> >> I find the auto settings tend to do a few things other than what I prefer: >> the black level gets set too dark for too much of the image, and the tone >> tends to get set colder than what I like. BUT - if you have NO idea where >> to start with an image, sometimes you can get a little closer to where you >> want to be with the auto settings. > > Thanks, Charles. That's what I was looking for. Didn't know about either. > > That said, I'm bogged down in a stupid little writing project -- it's not > actually stupid -- that shoulda been done weeks ago and is keeping my from my > photo editing experiments. What kind of photographer is that? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
