Posts for: russelray
Apr 3, 2021 14:43:03 #
Gene51 wrote:
I catalog everything in LR just because it is thorough, easy to use, and there is nothing like it out there that can organize my image and video files as well as it does.
Bridge is even better because it's even easier, it catalogs all files not just image and video files, and it NEVER loses a file or catalog like LR is prone to do.
Apr 1, 2021 19:10:22 #
Gene51 wrote:
Bridge is a non-catalog yet powerful way of organizing and managing files - and not just image files, but any file type in the Adobe portfolio. But it definitely is NOT a catalog based system. Learning to use it won't turn it into a catalog based system. I use both, and they are not interchangeable.
If you really learn to use it, yes, it very much can be a catalog based system. Bridge is so much more powerful than Lightroom because Bridge will catalog any type of file, not just picture files. My Bridge catalogs include files from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, Photoshop, mp3, mp4, PDF, and that's just off the top of my head because I have to get to the grocery store.
Apr 1, 2021 14:54:13 #
Gene51 wrote:
The catalog is what sets LR apart from most other applications - it's implementation is flawless. The problem most people have with it is that it the try to approach it as if it were a file browser - like Bridge - which it is not.
I used to think that Bridge was "just a file browser." Then I went to an Adobe convention in Las Vegas and found out that Bridge is the best catalog program out there. One just has to learn how to use it, but that's the case with all software.
Mar 21, 2021 16:25:50 #
bobnewnan22 wrote:
I've tried the Task Manager, the application is not listed in the 8 Adobe app's that are running. Shut down, reinstalled, shut down computer, restarted, nothing helps.
Try the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
Mar 21, 2021 14:54:44 #
mwsilvers wrote:
While your circumstances may not permit it, for the best performance when using intensive post-processing software, it is generally recommended to minimize the number of other programs running simultaneously with it. Keeping that many programs open at the same time will definitely have a severe impact on performance.
I know. In experimenting with my setup, it takes more time to open those memory hog Adobe programs than it does to work in them when all of them are open, so I only close the ones that I know I'm not going to use in the next four hours or so.
Mar 21, 2021 06:14:52 #
I have Windows 10 Pro with 32 GB of RAM. Still not enough because I use a lot of programs: mostly Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Audacity, Bridge, Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, Illustrator, InDesign, and Topaz Studio. Since I use them multiple times per day, I keep them open. I have found that Adobe programs are memory hogs and refuse to release the memory when a program is closed, requiring me to go into Task Manager and close the Process, or reboot the computer. At the suggestion of many of the computer science students at Cal Berkeley, I now reboot the computer at least once a week, usually on Sunday.
Mar 21, 2021 06:01:07 #
If you're running Windows, Ctrl + Alt + Delete brings up access to the Task Manager. Click on it, click on "More Details," find the Adobe Application Manager, and "End Task."
Mar 5, 2021 12:55:26 #
A significant problem for me here in San Diego. I usually go for sky replacement.
Feb 23, 2021 10:57:12 #
My grandad, dad, and three uncles all worked for Missouri Pacific in Texas, 1930-2003. I think I have been everywhere in the U.S. related to trains. My favorite place to visit is Fillmore, California. The whole city revolves 24/7/365 around the Fillmore & Western Railway. Lots of opportunity for pictures, including many photo run-bys. Also lots of opportunities to ride in the cabs of steam and diesel locomotives, in cabooses, and in vintage passenger cars. Covid-19, of course, put a crimp in public activities last year and so far this year.
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Feb 20, 2021 17:52:42 #
Since it's bright and sunny outside (I'm 20 miles east of downtown San Diego), I thought I would go out and take a couple of videos of the lensball starting fires. I got my box and look at the warning on the box. My oh my. So I guess now all we need to do is define "prolonged exposure." Here in the East San Diego County boondocks at high noon, I can define it as "a couple of seconds." I guess at the age of 66 I should really take a few moments with new stuff to read the instructions and such. I do admit that reading instructions isn't near as much fun as the actual experience............. lol
Feb 20, 2021 17:42:19 #
User ID wrote:
Do a ray tracing to see how silly that is.
I don't need to. I have the burn on my thigh, and after I dropped the lensball on some plastic so I could look at my thigh, the plastic immediately started burning. I thought all that was interesting, so I started experimenting. I was able to burn wood mulch and recycled rubber mulch. Yeah, I'm not going to be playing with it in direct sunlight. But thanks for your input to help me realize how silly personal experience is.
Feb 20, 2021 12:21:32 #
Don't set it on your skin or anything flammable if you're out in direct sunlight. It's also a huge magnifying glass and can burn or start a fire in mere seconds.
Jan 29, 2021 11:54:44 #
bsprague wrote:
Bridge is a file browser and records nothing in a catalog of any sort.
Not true at all. You just need to learn how to use Bridge. It's power goes far beyond what Lightroom does.
Jan 18, 2021 10:47:44 #
sabfish wrote:
My Brother-in-Law and I are collaborating on a book of photos we have both taken of wildflowers in the Jackson Hole area. We are close to done editing our photos, but are looking for recommendations of photo book services. Neither of us has experience with any of the current services. Wirecutter recently recommended Mixbook Photo Co. That is the first I have heard of them, but welcome any thoughts on that company or others.
When I published my book in October 2019, I had spent the previous two weeks researching book publishers. Mixbook was my #2 choice. #1, and the one I went to because they could print as few as one book ($39 for 174 color pages; soft cover) and they offered bar codes, was BookBaby.
Dec 18, 2020 05:20:33 #
MadMikeOne wrote:
Is there a possibility that you are inadvertently partially locking the focal length? I've done that more than once and swore it was the lens, not me. Wrong.
Same here.
Check the locking mechanism.