“It is critical to understand that Lightroom will always take its own database to be correct,” says Victoria Bampton, raw processing guru and self-dubbed “Lightroom Queen.” (And rightly so!) In case you’re not clear, Bampton is talking about the fact that when working with images in a LR catalog, LR will always refer to the most recent changes that were made in LR, even you worked on images more recently in another program.
Huh?
What this means is that if you update any metadata — from keywords to develop settings – in any other program besides LR (such as Adobe Bridge or Adobe Camera Raw), LR will not be aware of those changes. Considering that many of use do use multiple programs to work with our image, you can see how we could quickly end up with a very big mess.
Continue reading “Lightroom Data Practices Revealed”
Tags: "Lightroom Data Practices: Getting Under the Hood”, Adobe Lightroom - The Missing FAQ, Lightroom Catalog, Lightroom Data, Lightroom Queen, Read Metadata from Files, Victoria Bampton
Actually, Jeffrey’s Friedl’s blog article called “Digital-Image Color Spaces” intelligently addresses a heck of a lot more about color spaces than just how your browser is handling the color of the images it displays. However, the monitor insight (complete with interactive learning examples) is particularly valuable – even for those with high color space IQs.
As far as I can tell, best color space practices in relation to monitors (e.g. all Web content!) is probably one of the least understood aspects of color management. (I’m still a bit confused.) And arguably, it is the most important aspects of color management to understand. After all, except for the handful of photographers on the planet who don’t know what a computer is, the Web is the single most common media in which their work will be viewed – including critical proof and gallery evaluations by clients and samples for intended clients. Given this, we want to be on top of color issues in relation to monitors. Continue reading “How Colormetrically Advanced Is Your Browser?”
Tags: Color Management, Color Spaces, Colormetrics, Digital-Image Color Spaces, Jeffrey’s Friedl, Online Learning Resources, Victoria Bampton, Web Browswers
If the color of your images looks off in Lightroom but not in other programs, the likely problem is a corrupted monitor profile. The easiest way to check this is to make sure the histogram of a grayscale image looks gray.
This useful tidbit comes from Victoria Bampton, in her highly useful problem solving book: “Adobe Lightroom 2: The Missing FAQ.” As Bampton explains: Continue reading “Simple Monitor Profile Diagnostic for Lightroom”
Tags: Adobe Lightroom 2: The Missing FAQ, Color Management, Grayscale, Lightroom, Monitor Calibration, Monitor Profile, Monitor Profiling, Victoria Bampton
The new version Adobe Photoshop Lightroom—publically available for beta testing for some time—has finally hit the shelves. But how different is LR2 from LR1? Is it worth the upgrade? What do you get?
Adobe’s lists the top ten bullet point features Continue reading “Is Lightroom 2 Worth the Upgrade?”
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