Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, Wade, Clive: Thanks for your answers. I am very pleased to hear that the arbitrary rotate tool also exists in Lightroom. Now, the only unanswered question is the one regarding sharpening, and Wade will look into that. Don, I exported the adjusted files as TIFFs for at least 3 reasons: (1) if I want to print them from my desktop PC, which has no Lightroom but does have Photoshop; (2) if I want to upload them to a stock photo agency; and (3) I still have the feeling that TIFF is the more universal and hence more future-proof format than DNG--and more applications can open TIFF files than DNG files. I look forward to playing with Lightroom some more tomorrow, but now it is time to sleep--we just came home from a 900 km drive back from Switzerland. Nathan Don Dory wrote: > Nathan, > First, why change to TIFF when exporting to another folder? PS > handles DNG > files just fine. > > Second, as to small rotations, if you open the crop dialoge from the > tools > on the bottom tool bar you will now get a rotate option that can be > controlled in degrees or just like in PS with a measure tool that then > gives > you an exact rotation. > > I hope this helps somewhat. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > On 3/3/07, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote: >> >> As I stated in my previous message, I really like Lightroom. I have >> been using it this week on my laptop, and I am very pleased with the >> workflow and the results. I do have a few questions, which are not >> completely clearly answered in the manual (and yes, I have actually >> read most of the manual!). >> >> The workflow I used is as follows: >> - copy the RAW files from the flash card to a folder on the computer >> - import the images into Lightroom while converting them to DNG >> - make the adjustments in Lightroom as needed >> - export the files as TIFF files to a separate folder >> - export the files a second time as JPG files for uploading to my web >> site >> >> Now for the questions: >> >> 1) The DNG files I created--do they include the adjustments I made, >> so that when I open in Photoshop later, I will be opening the >> adjusted files? Or are they simply the RAW files in DNG format? >> >> 2) I assume that the TIFF files I exported include all the >> adjustments. Is that correct? >> >> 3) What is the relationship between the sharpening in Lightroom, with >> its 0-100 scale and the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop with its 0-300 (or >> whatever it is) scale and separate controls for Radius and Threshold? >> >> 4) Is there a way to rotate an image in Lightroom by an arbitrary >> amount? From what I can see there isn't, which is why I opened >> Photoshop to edit 3-4 of the Switzerland images that needed to be >> rotated by 1 or 0.5 degree. >> >> 5) Is it better to use the sidecar files or to have everything >> written inside the DNG files, given that the only non-Lightroom >> application in which I would currently open the DNG files is >> Photoshop? Having everything in the DNG files seems intuitively >> simpler, but surely there much some advantage to using the sidecar >> files? >> >> TIA, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> nathan@nathanfoto.com >> General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!