G'day all. Thanks to all who commented and for the very detailed summaries of your workflows. I've read them all and archived them for future reference.
I suppose the thing I failed to appreciate was that with something like Lightroom you are effectively batch processing on import but not actually producing extra files (tiff or jpg) except for those images that you want to work on later in other software. If I've understood correctly, the image adjustments are stored in the DNGs or in sidecar files with PEFs - at least that's my interpretation, summed up in Charles' comment below. I'd like to use Lightroom but I've now invested a lot of time into Studioline. The problem with moving to Lightroom now is that I'd lose the custom metadata fields that I've added to each image and which are stored in the Studioline database. It's not impossible to get those custom fields into standard IPTC fields and then import all of my past image files into Lightroom, but it wouldn't be trivial. Studioline can process RAW images (using camera-specific parameters derived from DCRaw) and you can apply a wide range of image adjustments to those images which are then stored within the database. I'm just not sure how practical my current workflow would be for processing a large number of RAW files. That's something I have to think about further. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:52 -0500, "Charles Robinson" <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On May 30, 2011, at 17:51, Brian Walters wrote: > > > > In summary - if you shoot RAW exclusively (or mainly), how do you manage > > the workflow and still have a life?? > > > > If you use something like Adobe's Lightroom, the only things that remind > you that you're using RAW files is that your harddrive and memory cards > fill up faster, and you have a hell of a lot more latitude for playing > with exposures and white balance after the fact. The whole concept of > "batch processing" or "converting" doesn't even exist - you just import > your files, edit them, and send your edited output to web or disk. > Easy-peasy. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
