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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 20, 2012 19:41:15 GMT
Obviously, I have no clue.
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Post by The Wirefox on Sept 20, 2012 19:48:34 GMT
A fairly accurate description. And in that cart is all the data relating to edits on the original raw file. How do I know if I have side car files? You dont scrawp you knees when cornering
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 20, 2012 19:55:54 GMT
How do I know if I have side car files? You dont scrawp you knees when cornering You aren't helpful.
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Post by The Wirefox on Sept 20, 2012 20:24:11 GMT
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 20, 2012 20:34:11 GMT
Thank you, Steve. I think I'm getting a handle on it.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 27, 2012 19:13:13 GMT
Ummm...what is a 'sidecar'? I'm assuming it's not that little cart hooked to the side of a motorcycle... If you shoot in RAW, Mary, you can convert the files from your camera to DNG format. They don't have sidecar files as it's all put into the DNG file. It also saves about 20% on disk space. When converting, do I do this upon import or after processing?
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Post by jeeperman on Sept 27, 2012 23:33:33 GMT
I am figuring that out quikly....or rather slowly if I must be honest. Bought LR4 yesterday. I name each folder in windows according to what seems to be my shot of the day or the important area of the day. Such as "3 legged dog" or funk park.....what ever I know will trigger memory. I have a seperate folder for the images I put on my smugmug, as not to get them confused. At this point I am still getting LR understood. I have found how to export in both Jpeg and Tiff, tiff incase I need work on it elsewhere. I still use Gimp for that. So far looks as if I will need it little. I was glad to get it figured out though as I thought LR only exported DNG. I may have to break down and get elements to make the occasional work easier than bringing things to gimp from LR.
I will get it all sorted at some point. So far I am enjoying LR where the adjustments are concerned. So much more I can accomplish and with only a couple steps vs the process to get to the same point in my Sony software + Gimp.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 28, 2012 0:17:04 GMT
I am figuring that out quikly....or rather slowly if I must be honest. Bought LR4 yesterday. I name each folder in windows according to what seems to be my shot of the day or the important area of the day. Such as "3 legged dog" or funk park.....what ever I know will trigger memory. I have a seperate folder for the images I put on my smugmug, as not to get them confused. At this point I am still getting LR understood. I have found how to export in both Jpeg and Tiff, tiff incase I need work on it elsewhere. I still use Gimp for that. So far looks as if I will need it little. I was glad to get it figured out though as I thought LR only exported DNG. I may have to break down and get elements to make the occasional work easier than bringing things to gimp from LR. I will get it all sorted at some point. So far I am enjoying LR where the adjustments are concerned. So much more I can accomplish and with only a couple steps vs the process to get to the same point in my Sony software + Gimp. I do enjoy LR. I have LR 3.something. I have most everything as .nef (Nikon raw) and those files are huge. So, trying to figure out how to go about it more efficiently.
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Post by jeeperman on Sept 28, 2012 1:44:35 GMT
Yes they can be rather large, in learning this program and how to export....I exported a fill as a Tiff...it was 137 MB. My full size JPG are much more reasonable somewhere between 15 & 20MB. I never have used LR before in any form or photoshop for that matter. This is an interesting learning experience.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 28, 2012 17:35:37 GMT
Yes they can be rather large, in learning this program and how to export....I exported a fill as a Tiff...it was 137 MB. My full size JPG are much more reasonable somewhere between 15 & 20MB. I never have used LR before in any form or photoshop for that matter. This is an interesting learning experience. No clue what my file sizes are...never checked. I do know that keeping every. single. RAW. file is going to bog my computer down...right?
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Post by chrisc on Sept 28, 2012 18:54:21 GMT
Buy yourself a removable hard drive, say a terabyte at least and you'll leave your computer to run nicely...just be careful as most of them don't do dropping very well.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 28, 2012 19:05:54 GMT
Buy yourself a removable hard drive, say a terabyte at least and you'll leave your computer to run nicely...just be careful as most of them don't do dropping very well. I've heard that dropping them can be a problem.
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Post by chrisc on Sept 28, 2012 19:43:15 GMT
I can give you some first hand references to that as a fact.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 28, 2012 20:22:10 GMT
I can give you some first hand references to that as a fact. I was referring to you.
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Post by chrisc on Sept 28, 2012 21:57:22 GMT
I know...just hoping it was someone else
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