Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Nathan. That was worth a lot. I too noticed the 450 px size in web exports as being way too small. I'm going to try the 50 setting for sharpening too. The part I really like is something you point out as its strengths too, the exports to web. I didn't even export, technically, but provided my log in information and lightroom worked as an FTP client and sent everything up online. I'm not going to bother with it for my b/w, but it is good enough that I am going to carry my digital cameras with me more now. This week is such a week. I am going to be away from home over the next weekend so I won't be able to process and scan my b/w paw's. The next couple will almost have to be digital (I'm leaving today). I still have about 20 days of my trial period left before I have to decide ... so ... Thanks! Daniel Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > FWIW, here is the workflow I used to post my recent Val gallery > (http://www.nathanfoto.com/Val/): > > 1) Copy the DNG files (that is what the Ricoh GRD produces) from the > card to the laptop > 2) Import that subdirectory into Lightroom > 3) Use Lightroom's Library module to go through the images and delete > the obvious losers (I used to do this step in separate software such as > Photo Mechanic or ACDSee--no longer necessary) > 4) Create a separate Collection called Val d'Isere and assign the > surviving images to that collection > 5) Make my adjustments as needed: conversion to grayscale, levels, > cropping, colour noise reduction etc. I have the sharpening set to 50 on > Lightroom's 0-100 as the default. Seems to work well. > 6) For the few images that needed spotting (yes, I know, it should not > be necessary with a fixed-lens camera, but somehow a few of the images > had what looked like a smudge visible in blue sky), I opened Photoshop > CS2 from within Lightroom and used its much superior Healing Brush tool. > 7) At this point, I had around 90 images in my Val d'Isere collection. I > exported all these files to a separate subdirectory, as TIFF files that > contain all the adjustments I had made. I then created another > collection (as a sub-collection of Val d'Isere) called "For web" and > assigned the 28 images that I wanted to post to the web to that collection. > 8) Working in the "For web" collection, I wrote the captions in the > Library module, and then used the Web module to create the gallery that > I posted. Lightroom's default size is 450 pixels, which is too small, so > I used 750 pixels instead. One click on Export, and the gallery is ready > for uploading a couple of minutes later--this is where Lightroom really > shines. > > This workflow is probably more difficult to describe than to actually > perform. I am totally sold on Lightroom as the tool for processing > digital images, which is the vast majority of what I shoot these days. I > do agree that with scanned film, which will typically need lots of > spotting, Lightroom is not the tool of choice--as you say, if you end up > opening Photoshop for every image, then you might as well work in > Photoshop all the way. But let us keep in mind that this is version 1.0 > of the software, and I hope that the spotting tools will be improved in > future versions. > > As you can probably tell, I really, really like this software :-) > > Nathan > > dlr@dlridings.se wrote: >> Well, Nathan said it could be done ... >> >> So I've tried Lightroom with RAW files, but how would it work to use it >> for my scans. >> >> I took a roll yesterday (IIIf, 50 Elmar, Fortepan 400, Calbe 49 >> (Atomal)). >> >> I scanned it this morning and moved the raw scans (around 40 mb each) >> over >> to a little disk that I then connected to my laptop. >> >> Instead of "exporting" I chose "upload" and Lightroom uploaded (by >> ftp) to >> my server instead of exporting the whole set to a local drive >> (whereupon I >> would need to upload with FTP). >> >> http://www.dlridings.se/lightroom/2007v12/ >> >> Quick, unjustified crticisms : spotting (cloning and healing) is there, >> but you'd rather do it in Photoshop. >> >> I haven't sharpened them (do they look ok?) >> >> I am using a laptop whose screen I am not used to (not calibrated). I've >> just done things by working against the histogram. >> >> Daniel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >