Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tina, a very informative and clean video Ph Le 31 mars 11 ? 22:48, Tina Manley a ?crit : > > http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3/whats-new-in-lightroom-3/ > > <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3/whats-new-in-lightroom-3/ > > >It's > much, much better than LR2. Faster but lots of new features. You > can't > find them all on your own so watch the video. > > Tina > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> > wrote: > >> For over a year, I had been using LR2 because it wouldn't run on OS X >> (Tiger), and I wasn't about to enrich Apple with $129 for an OS >> upgrade. >> When Fry's suddenly offered it for $29 I installed Snow Leopard, >> fought with >> the things that stopped working, like printers, until I understood >> how Apple >> had reorganized stuff. Then, yesterday, I installed the LR upgrade. >> >> So, it would be interesting to know what the major changes are. >> Most things >> look pretty much the same. I understand they claim that they have >> improved >> the noise reduction, but it is so pathetic compared to what >> NoiseNinja will >> do in its most simple-minded automatic mode that I would not even >> bother >> with the LR noise reduction facility. >> >> Interesting point about NoiseNinja. They provide a chart which can be >> photographed with various cameras at various ISO values, the idea >> being that >> you create noise profiles from those photographs and then use them >> to reduce >> noise in subsequent photos. Well, I tried it, and to my surprise >> found that >> the dumb simple way of using it produced better results. >> >> The simplest way is to go full automatic. The software finds a >> number of >> uniform areas in the picture, samples them, and then produces a >> profile for >> THAT picture which is then used to remove noise. It does show you >> what spots >> it is sampling. It can be fooled if some area with uniform >> microscopic >> detail looks like noise. I found one photo where the automatic >> procedure did >> not work. In that case, one has the option of manually selecting >> small areas >> in the picture that should look uniform, drawing little sampling >> rectangles >> just as if one were cropping out tiny areas. I.e., you're telling the >> software where sample the noise. >> >> One drawback is that it produces .tiff files that are over 100 MB >> in size. >> They can be cut back with what I think is loss-less compression, >> but that >> becomes an extra step. >> >> Can anyone summarize for me what other goodies besides backing up >> at a SANE >> time differentiate LR3 from LR2? >> >> Herb >> -- >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> 650-326-8204 >> >> Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, >> for they are subtle and will pee >> on your computer! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >