Comments on: Lightroom Shines Brigher http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/ Digital Photography tips & tricks Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Crowe http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37804 David Crowe Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:40:06 +0000 http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37804 I am using Lightroom at the recommendation of DPS in favor of Aperture (I'm a Mac guy) and while I love some aspects, there are many things that drive me nuts: 1) There are basic user interface bugs. One is that if you are working in one of the side bars (say entering meta-data like a title) and then you click on the main portion of the window the first click is ignored. If you click a second time quickly sometimes both clicks are processed, but if you wait a little longer, only the second click is. This is a real productivity reducer. 2) Another bug is that the typeahead algorithm has bugs. If you're typing a title (say "Roman Ampitheater" and Lightroom is busy searching its database for previous keywords the letters won't appear on the screen for a second or two. This is normal, but when they do appear it's something like "Rmoan Ampitheater". That's not normal. 3) The distinction between "Library" and "Develop" is artificial and I find myself switching back and forth all the time. And even within "Develop" the user interface is too modal. First click on the crop box, for example, and then the alignment ruler is revealed. Click on that and then finally you can align the photograph. I'm not sure Library and Develop should be merged but going back and forth should be easier. 4) The way the program does websites is very slick but has two major, serious limitations. There's no way to save web settings associated with a group of pictures, i.e. a web page (or slide show) is not an object in their database. Their method of saving settings may help, but it will result in a plethora of saved templates that are not correlated (by Lightroom) with the corresponding pictures. The other big problem is that there's no way to edit the HTML and save it. A less serious problem is that there's no way to do a "Meta-page", i.e. a web page that links to other web pages. I'd like to show my recent trip to Italy as 9 small pictures which when clicked don't go to a large version of the same picture, but to a web page showing a bunch of pictures from the area illustrated. I am using Lightroom at the recommendation of DPS in favor of Aperture (I’m a Mac guy) and while I love some aspects, there are many things that drive me nuts:
1) There are basic user interface bugs. One is that if you are working in one of the side bars (say entering meta-data like a title) and then you click on the main portion of the window the first click is ignored. If you click a second time quickly sometimes both clicks are processed, but if you wait a little longer, only the second click is. This is a real productivity reducer.
2) Another bug is that the typeahead algorithm has bugs. If you’re typing a title (say “Roman Ampitheater” and Lightroom is busy searching its database for previous keywords the letters won’t appear on the screen for a second or two. This is normal, but when they do appear it’s something like “Rmoan Ampitheater”. That’s not normal.
3) The distinction between “Library” and “Develop” is artificial and I find myself switching back and forth all the time. And even within “Develop” the user interface is too modal. First click on the crop box, for example, and then the alignment ruler is revealed. Click on that and then finally you can align the photograph. I’m not sure Library and Develop should be merged but going back and forth should be easier.
4) The way the program does websites is very slick but has two major, serious limitations. There’s no way to save web settings associated with a group of pictures, i.e. a web page (or slide show) is not an object in their database. Their method of saving settings may help, but it will result in a plethora of saved templates that are not correlated (by Lightroom) with the corresponding pictures. The other big problem is that there’s no way to edit the HTML and save it. A less serious problem is that there’s no way to do a “Meta-page”, i.e. a web page that links to other web pages. I’d like to show my recent trip to Italy as 9 small pictures which when clicked don’t go to a large version of the same picture, but to a web page showing a bunch of pictures from the area illustrated.

]]> By: Laurel http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37398 Laurel Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:30:11 +0000 http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37398 Great Story!!! Thanks for sharing. I went to the link and it's fantastic. I never knew about that site = See all the wonderful things you learn on the DPS Show! Cheers, Laurel Gainesville, Fl Great Story!!! Thanks for sharing. I went to the link and it’s fantastic. I never knew about that site = See all the wonderful things you learn on the DPS Show!

Cheers,
Laurel
Gainesville, Fl

]]> By: Scott http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37397 Scott Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:22:07 +0000 http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37397 Hey Laurel, This is from an Adobe blog: The word says it all…this new control (one that I’m very fond of since I personally begged and pleaded with Thomas Knoll to put in) is a hybrid of using USM at a low amount and high radius-called Local Contrast Enhancement in an article by Michael Reichmann quoting a technique mentioned by Thomas-and a technique called MidTone Contrast Adjustment taught by Mac Holbert of Nash Editions. Last year during the Epson Print Academy, the MidTone Contrast Adjustment tutorial was one of the most popular of the entire Academy. Well, on a trip to Ann Arbor to work with Mark and Thomas on sharpening, I got Thomas aside and started working on him. “Thomas, this can’t be too hard to do, right? I mean you’re already doing adaptive image adjustments with Fill Light, how hard would it be to put in an adaptive contrast adjustment?” I asked. He giggled…(and that’s always a real good sign). Several weeks later he said he had figured out a way to do it and it would be in an upcoming build-it was called “Punch”. And sure enough, it certainly DOES add punch to an image-but in a way you simply can’t do with a curves control because this adjustment actually uses the image itself to make a mask on which to apply the mid tone contrast adjustment. There is a story about how the name changed from Punch to Clarity, but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to tell it publicaly You can read more here: http://www.photoshopnews.com/2007/05/31/about-camera-raw-41/ Hey Laurel,

This is from an Adobe blog:

The word says it all…this new control (one that I’m very fond of since I personally begged and pleaded with Thomas Knoll to put in) is a hybrid of using USM at a low amount and high radius-called Local Contrast Enhancement in an article by Michael Reichmann quoting a technique mentioned by Thomas-and a technique called MidTone Contrast Adjustment taught by Mac Holbert of Nash Editions. Last year during the Epson Print Academy, the MidTone Contrast Adjustment tutorial was one of the most popular of the entire Academy.

Well, on a trip to Ann Arbor to work with Mark and Thomas on sharpening, I got Thomas aside and started working on him. “Thomas, this can’t be too hard to do, right? I mean you’re already doing adaptive image adjustments with Fill Light, how hard would it be to put in an adaptive contrast adjustment?” I asked. He giggled…(and that’s always a real good sign).

Several weeks later he said he had figured out a way to do it and it would be in an upcoming build-it was called “Punch”. And sure enough, it certainly DOES add punch to an image-but in a way you simply can’t do with a curves control because this adjustment actually uses the image itself to make a mask on which to apply the mid tone contrast adjustment. There is a story about how the name changed from Punch to Clarity, but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to tell it publicaly

You can read more here: http://www.photoshopnews.com/2007/05/31/about-camera-raw-41/

]]> By: Laurel http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37389 Laurel Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:01 +0000 http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/06/29/lightroom-shines-brigher/#comment-37389 I just downloaded it. I don't understand what the "Clairity" feature does. Does anyone know a place online that has details on all the new updates? Cheers, Laurel Gainesville, Florida I just downloaded it. I don’t understand what the “Clairity” feature does. Does anyone know a place online that has details on all the new updates?

Cheers,
Laurel
Gainesville, Florida

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