Comments on: Digital photo workflow http://adrianspender.com/blog/2006/11/05/digital-photo-workflow/ Cycling, software and random other thoughts Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Ferrier http://adrianspender.com/blog/2006/11/05/digital-photo-workflow/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Andrew Ferrier Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:58:32 +0000 http://www.adrianspender.com/blog/?p=75#comment-98 I can definitely recommend giving The GIMP a try. Not only does it have the obvious benefit of being free, it's also far more capable and mature than it used to be - the interface is a little different from Photoshop, but personally, I find it more intuitive. The main feature it's still lacking is CMYK support - not that important unless you're doing a lot of professional-level printing work. You might find GIMPshop worthy of a try if you like the Photoshop way of doing things: http://www.gimpshop.net/ I can definitely recommend giving The GIMP a try. Not only does it have the obvious benefit of being free, it’s also far more capable and mature than it used to be – the interface is a little different from Photoshop, but personally, I find it more intuitive. The main feature it’s still lacking is CMYK support – not that important unless you’re doing a lot of professional-level printing work.

You might find GIMPshop worthy of a try if you like the Photoshop way of doing things:

http://www.gimpshop.net/

]]> By: martyc http://adrianspender.com/blog/2006/11/05/digital-photo-workflow/comment-page-1/#comment-99 martyc Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:46:51 +0000 http://www.adrianspender.com/blog/?p=75#comment-99 I was going to try Lightroom, and even downloaded the windows beta, and then discovered it wouldn't install on 2K. bah. I was going to try Lightroom, and even downloaded the windows beta, and then discovered it wouldn’t install on 2K. bah.

]]> By: Andy Piper http://adrianspender.com/blog/2006/11/05/digital-photo-workflow/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Andy Piper Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:13:07 +0000 http://www.adrianspender.com/blog/?p=75#comment-100 Interesting. I have 2 or 3 issues with my workflow. The first is organising my library, which at the moment, isn't really. I know that Lightroom lets me tag stuff, but I haven't yet decided on a good way to store stuff, so I haven't been through tagging extensively. At the moment I initially import to my R40 into dated folders; import and process with Lightroom and export JPEGs to a subfolder (which is a pain to do, since each time I change date, I have to tell Lightroom about it - RawShooter let me always write to a subfolder of whatever folder I was working in). As I run out of space on the R40 and finish working on my RAW files (which can take a while), I move the files to my Linux workstation, which has RAID mirror disks to guard against data loss. However, it is generally too slow to work on the RAW files via wireless to the network share. The other issue I have is that RawShooter used to store all the RAW settings in a hidden .RWSettings file in the directory where I worked on them. I think Lightroom stores them in the database, so if I move the directory to the network later, I lose the RAW processing settings (I think - I haven't actually validated this yet). Yet another thing is that RawShooter used to let me see which photos had been processed, and allowed me to save multiple snapshots of settings per photo. In Lightroom I tend to assign a star rating after I've done my processing, so that I can see what is processed. So the upshot is that I'm not really happy with my workflow, partly caused by the transition to Lightroom. Incidentally I use The Gimp for post-processing (rare) and the excellent jUploadr to upload to Flickr or Zoomr (including assigning tags and sets). Interesting.

I have 2 or 3 issues with my workflow.

The first is organising my library, which at the moment, isn’t really. I know that Lightroom lets me tag stuff, but I haven’t yet decided on a good way to store stuff, so I haven’t been through tagging extensively.

At the moment I initially import to my R40 into dated folders; import and process with Lightroom and export JPEGs to a subfolder (which is a pain to do, since each time I change date, I have to tell Lightroom about it – RawShooter let me always write to a subfolder of whatever folder I was working in). As I run out of space on the R40 and finish working on my RAW files (which can take a while), I move the files to my Linux workstation, which has RAID mirror disks to guard against data loss. However, it is generally too slow to work on the RAW files via wireless to the network share.

The other issue I have is that RawShooter used to store all the RAW settings in a hidden .RWSettings file in the directory where I worked on them. I think Lightroom stores them in the database, so if I move the directory to the network later, I lose the RAW processing settings (I think – I haven’t actually validated this yet).

Yet another thing is that RawShooter used to let me see which photos had been processed, and allowed me to save multiple snapshots of settings per photo. In Lightroom I tend to assign a star rating after I’ve done my processing, so that I can see what is processed.

So the upshot is that I’m not really happy with my workflow, partly caused by the transition to Lightroom.

Incidentally I use The Gimp for post-processing (rare) and the excellent jUploadr to upload to Flickr or Zoomr (including assigning tags and sets).

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