10MPlayer wrote:
I recently bought a drawing tablet to use when editing in LR and Photoshop. If you're not familiar with it, it's more pointing device than tablet. There's no image in the workspace. It's like a touchpad with a pen type stylus. I'm finding there is quite a large learning curve with this device. Does anyone have any advice to make it easier to learn?
My personal break through early on in the process of getting used to the WACOM tablet had to do with setting up the Stylus/cursor relationship in Preferences. The tablet surface can be used two different ways with regard to cursor positioning.
One is "Mouse Mode", the other establishes an "Absolute" relationship between X,Y coordinates on the tablet and the screen. Mouse Mode means you can pick up your stylus and the cursor remains where you left it on the screen. When you replace your stylus on the tablet, you pickup where you left off editing pixels.
The "Absolute Mode" means when you pick up your stylus and move it to another location on the tablet, the cursor jumps to that corresponding location on the screen.
"Mouse Mode" relies on the user to develop some hand/eye coordination, but it is very much like the mouse and I find it preferable for use in edit/paint programs like Photoshop where I'm looking exclusively at the monitor.
"Absolute Mode" makes sense if you're tracing something on the tablet and need to revisit areas on the document and have the cursor synch up on screen.
Hope this helps.
I've used Macs since 1990 and have always chosen desktop units that I can do simple drive and RAM replacements on. One of our MacPros will need replacement soon and I'm considering the iMac with trepidation. We have one iMac for home use and needed to replace the hard drive which required taking it to the store since the only way to access the drive bay is by removing the screen which I didn't want to do.
GPS Hack
None of my cameras has GPS so I take a quick shot with my phone whenever I've settled into a shoot. I add the camera pictures to my Bridge sorting routine where they come up in sequence with the camera pictures. Then copy and paste GPS coordinates from camera pic to the grouping of camera shots taken at same time (and location).
gvarner wrote:
What is the color temperature of LED's? I've heard that it's close to sunlight, if so, how close? And is there a difference in the temp for LED's used in a flash versus a fixed source? Thanks in advance for the help.
Google variable temperature LED and you'll find units that combine Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to provide a spectrum of colored lighting.
When I grew up in the 50's and 60's I never had reason to address adults I did not know. Those I did know (outside of family) were known as Mr. and Mrs. (last name). Even now first name salutations with contemporaries is never taken for granted, and I'm comfortable with that. What irks me now is having kids addressing me as "Mr. Dale". I feel like an overseer.
Dngallagher wrote:
Can anyone explain the difference between the Wacom Intuos Draw tablet and the Wacom Intuos Photo tablet? . . .
This Youtube comparison includes a helpful chart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9lNKrgrM8IThe Photo, Comic, and Art tablets are similar hardware but include different software. The Draw model does not include the "Touch" feature. All of them support 1024 pressure levels which is half of what the Intuos Pro supports.
CatMarley wrote:
11 FPS is not too shabby!
I'm reading elsewhere that burst mode can fill the buffer and cause the camera to freeze until images download to the card.
Do you have a WACOM tablet with a stylus on top of it?
enpaz1 wrote:
Is it absolutely necessary that every photographer master post processing? . . .
Some thoughts on post processing:
1. Most cameras apply post processing via various "modes" without the user being aware of it, especially users of "bridge" cameras, or casual users of more sophisticated equipment. If the file you get out of the camera is a jpeg, it's been PP'd. If it's RAW, you almost always HAVE to fiddle with it.
2. Forensic photography often relies on "image enhancement" techniques such as sharpening to isolate murky detail. There's no such thing as an "objective" photograph anyway, so unless your post processing involves Tabloid Journalism cut-and-pasting, what's the harm?
Here are some case studies involving Admissibility of Digital Evidence:
http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/admissibilitydigitaleveidencecriminalprosecutions.html3. Most Post Processing in ACR does very little to misrepresent the original image. Altering exposure in shadows, highlights, or overall; adjusting the curve to compress or expand tonality; compensating for lighting temperature. These tools are digital equivalents of refining relationships between exposure and film development time, choosing paper contrast grade, dodging and burning.
speters wrote:
The edits in a TIFF from photoshop are not baked-in. That is one of the advantages of TIFF files, similar to raw files, one can come back later and do any changes (to wich ever layer/and/or data), as one sees fit!!
Photoshop supports "Adjustment layers" which allow future changes to an image. TIFF files don't save adjustment layers. When you adjust a curve in Photoshop and save it as a TIFF, the change is set.