Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Searcher. You seem to be the acknowledged expert in LR. Why don't you start a new category with a new aspect of LR discussed everyday?
I know I'd follow it.
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Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Barely a day goes by without Lightroom coming up in the posts. I usually respond if a. if no one else does, b. if the response so far is, as far as I am concerned, is incorrect, or c. if I can add something to the discussion.

I also encourage LR questions, as well as all post processing questions in the PP section. There are other experts, and more knowledgeable than me, in LR, but I guess I have more time on my hands than they do.

Many of the Lightroom tutorials on the Hog, were written by other members, and I am hoping they will write a few more.

I don't know if you have viewed the LR tutorials, but they do cover most of the problems that come up.

The biggest nightmare for some is the overall workflow, and although many workflow solutions have been written, one size does not fit all.

I am presently writing a very basic Lightroom workflow which is intended to get those new to LR going, without the worries that sometimes accompany this sort of thing. this will be a single thread based loosely on the excellent articles written by Birdpix (these are all listed in the LR tutorials list) and will start with "I have installed LR - what do I do next? "

Please do visit the PP section, it has evolved quite a lot since Bob Yankle joined with me in the administration of the section and is good fun.


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Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Actually, I have visited the links and have them bookmarked. I was thinking along the lines of a daily turorial with excercises.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

Sounds good, start me off, choose an aspect of LR that you are either strong on and thus can see when and where I fall over, or weak on and that aspect deserves some exercise.

C.R. Loc: United States of Confusion

64 bit doesn't require a new machine, unless the machine doesn't have the horsepower to run 64 bit programs. 32 or 64 bit is the operating system baliwick. i've been running win7 since it came out, it will digest most anything you throw at it, but i do have 2 powerful quad processor machines

JCARD

I am currently running LR-4 on my Sony LT-18E 32 BIT desktop,and on my Sony 64 BIT Laptop. I think I downloaded the trial, then purchased licensed version. Jcard

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

There are many fine editing programs out there for the beginner. I would suggest she starts with a free program to get the hang of what can be done through photo editing.

If she has a Windows computer a good place to start would be Windows Photo Gallery (32 bit) which is probably on her machine already. It's simple and fun to work with as are those free programs already mentioned. If the program has not been preinstalled download it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-live/photo-gallery

For Windows Live Gallery tutorials go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/photo-gallery

If she wants to aim higher suggest that she tries GIMP (32 & 64 bit) the free program that is almost as good as Photoshop. It can be downloaded here: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Up to date GIMP tutorials in Pdf format, which can be printed as required can be found here: http://www.gimp2tutorials.info/downloads.htm

Beware of the many free programs, other GIMP programs included, which come with many unwanted malware programs attached. The above download locations are malware free.

aggiedad Loc: Corona, ca

Microsoft Live Photo Gallery is a good, basic editing program that has served me well. It is free, and should work just fine with 32 bit.

skiman Loc: Ventura, CA

GIMP, Powerful and free. It does have a learning curve.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

I strongly suspect the machine in question is a 32 bit with Windows XP. I have two of these and the only way to bring them up to the 64 bit standard is to change the 32 bit processor which entails changing the motherboard. Can't even get 4 GB of memory, stops expanding at somewhere around 2.9Gb. (32 bit processor in theory can read up to 4Gb, in practise it is less.)

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

I used Corel PaintShop Pro for years. It's currently at their X6 version. There is a 32-bit version, I'm sure. I just looked at its icon sitting on my desktop. Although my computer is 64-bit the Corel installer installed both versions.

PaintShop Pro is a layer-based program similar to PhotoShop that is capable of far more than Lightroom because Lightroom is NOT layer-based. It is simple enough for a beginner but has most all the complexities that a professional takes advantage of. Best of all, it's usually not any more than $79 and upgrades are even less whenever you feel like doing so.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Well, I'm looking to learn stuff I'm, NOT strong on, like How to interpret, use, and adjust histograms.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

OK, but I will concentrate on the Lightroom Histogram.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Thank you.

blackest Loc: Ireland

64 bit cpu's first appeared around 2003, although not every cpu since then was 64 bit. E.G Most of the early netbooks are 32bit atom cpu's. Many cpu's have pae (physical address extension) While 32 bit versions of windows are limited, Linux has 32 bit kernels which can use large address spaces usually the limitation is motherboard design.