Traditionally, it has NOT been the business of a photo processor to be concerned about copyright issues, which actually lie with the photographer or person using the image for commercial purposes. The next thing will be requiring model releases from people who live in other countries, or are dead (some of my 50 year old slides taken in Europe).

Here is an excerpt from Walmart's arcane policy.

"In addition, we will not copy a photograph that appears to have been taken by a professional photographer or studio, even if it is not marked with any sort of copyright, unless we are presented with a signed Copyright Release from the photographer or studio."

The link is to Walmart's form.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/if/hmp/fusion/Photo-CopyrightForm_Owner.pdf

Is this only Lightroom 3 or is that in 2 also.

I have an application where viewing the photos through the display on the rear just doesn't cut it. I would like to tether a Nikon D300 via USB cable to my PC based laptop, running Windows 7, 64 bit. I have been looking at the various software programs, that range from "free" (that word always scares me in the photography/computer world) up to about $200.00

Can anyone suggest a decent software program? I have read some of the blogs, and it seems the free programs have a tendency to freeze up or make your computer crash. I think it would be neat to be able to take some photos and see them enlarged right out of the gate.

PS: for anyone considering doing this, remember that the images get stored ONLY on your laptop

Hi, Folks

Rene, you may want to pick up the dummies book on human relations...

For others, I just want to share some thoughts on the D5100. It probably relates as well to the competitors such as the Canon T3i.

Just so Rene doesn't accuse me of being a dummy also I'll let you know I graduated 3rd in class from one of the best engineering colleges in the country, have two masters degrees, have written several books on engineering related topics, etc. My work experience has been in research and development and the design, construction and operation of nuclear power plants. For those that do not know it is a field somewhat more complex than rocket science.

I have had cameras all my life including a 35 mm SLR for over twenty years and many versions of electronic cameras since.

I am also new to the D5100. I take a slightly different approach having carefully reviewed not only the printed manual that came with the camera but the multihundred page one on the DVD that came with it. I carefully reviewed the video on the DVD several times. I have purchased and read two additional books on the D5100 and three on digital photography and taken one of Scott Kelby's short courses (on the D3100, but close enough that I learned much from it.)

The main thing I want to share is that I consider the D5100 to be the most complex and sophisticated machine I have ever worked with. It is going to be a long time before I will feel that I have mastered it.

That said, it is also an astonishingly elegant machine in that if you set it on "Auto" (including turning on the lens autofocus) it takes great pictures right out of the box in most situations.

Next choice is to use P which also pretty much assures you great pictures. Then you can move to the next level of built-in set up options such as scenery and portrait. After that you can move to taking more control with A and S options. In all of those you can also fiddle with stuff like color control and white balance. Then you can take more control with M (oh, yeah, I also took a course last month from community educattion that helped on that...although in my case that was what I was best at because I had done it for 20 years with my SLR). We haven't even touched on things like HDR and Active D-lighting, bracketing and focus and metering choices, etc. And then there is video.

I am well beyond using it in Auto and still manage to take what I consider great pictures most of the time using some of its other capabilities. I still have much to learn about all of its incredible power and about composing better pictures...something the starter of this thread already seems to know better than I as he demonstrated with the wonderful picture of his granddaughter.

I note he has gone silent on us so I suppose we have given him what he needs.

Regards,
Larry Leach

Can someone tell me why Toothmakker & my software says the photo was shot with a Panasonic, but he said he had a NIKON 5100?

Open your image in the editor, press "control-j" (or under layer menu choose "new"-"layer via copy". Press "B" (click on the Brush tool), click the options check-off and the mode to "color". Press "D" to set the foreground color to black and 'paint' away all the stuff you don't want to be colored. If you make a mistake, click the eraser tool and "re-paint" the parts you messed up on then go back to the 'brush tool' and finish removing the color.

good luck