I got an photo job with some actual payment involved, doing a photo shoot with a band. The gig they wanted me to photo was last night and I’ve spent today sorting, culling and processing the photos selected for proofs.
I don’t have any benchmarks, but even though LR 6 was supposed to make use of the GPU going from LR 6 on High Sierra or Mojave to LR 11 on Catalina it does seem to feel zippier, I suspect that there are some performance improvements in there someplace. The map function is working again, as is facial recognition, and they implemented the “re-scan for faces” feature that people were asking for. The new feature is is very powerful, and even more poorly documented is the new mask feature. They’ve replaced adjustment brushes, radial adjustments and graded filters with a whole new way of masking, adding a “subject mask”. You take these various masks and you can duplicate them, invert them, add them together and subtract one from another. My first attempt at doing something ambitious with it was going from this https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51876634457/in/album-72177720296633990/ to this https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51878564356/in/album-72177720296633990/ I sure don’t have it mastered, in my hands it’s more like a poorly balanced cudgel than a scalpel, but it does have a lot of potential. Granted if you know photoshop, it has had these capabilities and more for many years. I abhor the ransomware model, but at least I do seem to get some improvements above and beyond “It will still run on my computer” for my money. With luck sometime within the next week, I’ll get feedback from the band members on which photos they like and I’ll post something beyond just the proofs from this job. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
