Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thank you, you may have answered some of the confusion: I have to deal with DICOM in the radiology world, so I sort of understand how a "standard" is not everyones "standard" and that things can be "mapped" into different areas "hidden" to others. My plan is to try to have the data "travel" with the image RAW or JPEG. Aperture will need to deal with Leica DNG files to be useful to me Cheers On 04/11/2006, at 12:32, Harrison McClary wrote: > Alastair, > > iView was a great program, I have up to the last release before it > went to the black hole that is Microsoft. I now use Aperture for > all aspects of photo management and the more I use aperture the > more I like it. At download I can enter captions and all EXIF data > I want, this stays with the file into the converted files. > Aperture works as a file management database as well as a great RAW > converter. I do not think it will work on DNG files though, I know > it did not work on them at version 1.2, I have not tried it since I > upgraded to 1.5.1. All in all I'd say Aperture is all the stuff I > liked about iView combined with Adobe's Bridge. I make prints > directly from Aperture that are fully color managed. Of all the > work I do on photos I now have to go to photoshop about 1/3 or > maybe even 2/3 less than I used to. > > I do not know if you are aware or not, but if you are entering > keywords and th like on RAW files in iView or Adobe they will not > carry through the conversion to jpg or tiff. The only way they > stay with the file is if you convert it to a DNG file then it will > stay through conversion. That is probably why when you are > entering file info in in Bridge they are not carrying over to > iView. Also in PSCS2 and Bridge there is a new way it writes to > exif data and you need to be sure it is also writing to the > "legacy" areas also or some programs will not recognize the data > you enter in PSCS2 and Bridge. I have made both of these errors > and learned the hard way. > > I hope this is of some help, if you have any more questions please > ask. > > Harrison > > > Alastair Firkin wrote: >> Dear all, >> Now that my digital work will be more than happy snaps from the >> Diglux 1, I have been considering "workflow". How should I work, >> please help. >> >> My initial plan was to have enough storage and to that end, I have >> bought 4 x 300 gig hard drives to store and sort the images. >> >> I have been using iView and iPhoto, BUT iView does not allow you >> to look at full images from RAW files anymore (part of the >> Microsoft take over and the bundling with Phase One software), so >> I have been playing with Adobe: I bought CS2 some time ago and >> "filing" in bridge and using "camera RAW SEEMS a good combination, >> BUT the RAW work seems better at the moment in LightRoom beta: any >> comments. >> >> So at the moment I thought: >> 1. take images in RAW >> 2. transfer to a "holding" folder titled "new images" >> 3. Review images in ? iView/lightroom/aperture/bridge >> 4. Rate images as a)junk to trash, b)record image never likely to >> make a print bigger than 6 x 4 and c)"potential" images >> 5. Throw out the a images, convert the b images to jpeg files and >> keep the c images as RAW (but what kind of RAW I have yet to fully >> understand) >> 6. Label the images with key words (does anyone have a standard >> "list") and comments: >> -- here I have a problem. iView had a great comments area BUT it >> does not seem to "map" to the comments area of the other >> programmes. Putting comments in the Bridge area seems more >> flexible, but they do not turn up in iView --- I am thinking my >> days using iView are now numbered, and this saddens me as I just >> paid for an upgrade, and its been a good workhorse for so long and >> I have so many comments already filed in it including all the FOM2 >> stuff >> 7. transfer the folders to the hard disc stores : this perhaps >> should be done before labels but I think bridge or lightroom can >> "follow" where they have gone and are "stored" >> 8. remove the images from the new image folder to free up the >> computers basic hard disc again >> 9. Begin working on the c images, and make displays for web and >> printing >> 10. go out and do it again. >> >> As you can see, I want to start with a basic plan and keep to it >> for at least 12 months to try to get some order and filing in my >> system, rather than the current mess. >> >> Thanks for any comments and help >> >> Cheers and here's luck >> >> Alastair > > > -- > Harrison McClary > Harrison McClary Photography > harrison@mcclary.net > http://www.mcclary.net > ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography > http://www.imagestocksouth.com > Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: > http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information