Photographer's thread

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by 4agze

Anyone one here use lightroom 3?

Yes. But I keep having problems with it. Lol

[4agze]

Originally Posted by Giccin

Yes. But I keep having problems with it. Lol

I'm not good at it ether, My friend use to edit my picture, just reduce noise & clean it up a bit but ever since my friend moved back to the bay area I'm left with unedited raw files, just got a legit copy on the lightroom 3 but how come when I import my raw files it says it doesnt recognize or file not supported but when I convert them on JPEG it imports them? am I doing something wrong?

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by 4agze

I'm not good at it ether, My friend use to edit my picture, just reduce noise & clean it up a bit but ever since my friend moved back to the bay area I'm left with unedited raw files, just got a legit copy on the lightroom 3 but how come when I import my raw files it says it doesnt recognize or file not supported but when I convert them on JPEG it imports them? am I doing something wrong?

Those are one of my problems too.. ._. sigh.. I haven't been able to edit my Raw shots in high iso because I'm confused with the program. lol

[4agze]

Originally Posted by Giccin

Those are one of my problems too.. ._. sigh.. I haven't been able to edit my Raw shots in high iso because I'm confused with the program. lol

damn dead end again, i tried youtube, google no answer im about to sign in on a photography forum they can help right? so what do you do giccin? you have a person who cleans up your raw also?

my 32gb SDcard is almost full

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by 4agze

damn dead end again, i tried youtube, google no answer im about to sign in on a photography forum they can help right? so what do you do giccin? you have a person who cleans up your raw also?

my 32gb SDcard is almost full

I have plenty of light to where I won't need to use lightroom. I just photoshop everything... Lol (although I probably should take a class on photoshop alone lol)

Are most of your photos in low light? And do you need CS5?

[4agze]

Originally Posted by Giccin

I have plenty of light to where I won't need to use lightroom. I just photoshop everything... Lol (although I probably should take a class on photoshop alone lol)

Are most of your photos in low light? And do you need CS5?

I do have my canon speedlite 580ex II w/ softbox but didnt have it with me on last weekends work party, and i became the unofficial photographer for some stupid reason. do you have a legit lic# for the CS5?

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by 4agze

I do have my canon speedlite 580ex II w/ softbox but didnt have it with me on last weekends work party, and i became the unofficial photographer for some stupid reason. do you have a legit lic# for the CS5?

I can tell you this... It works. It's the Master Edition. And I gave a copy to Ichi. O_O

[M-17]

So would most of you guys say that lightroom 3 isn't worth buying and just go for the CS5?

[Verdugo]

Originally Posted by 4agze

Anyone one here use lightroom 3?

I do 95% of my edits in Lightroom 3. I even made a quick tutorial video...hopefully this will help with some of you guys' problems!

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by M-17

So would most of you guys say that lightroom 3 isn't worth buying and just go for the CS5?

oh no. Some photos are just fine.. its just the damn noise some of us get. Lol

Trying to learn HDR and some other photo-editing techniques on my own but the frustration and lots of googling. Lol

[M-17]

Originally Posted by Verdugo

I do 95% of my edits in Lightroom 3. I even made a quick tutorial video...hopefully this will help with some of you guys' problems!

It seems Lightroom 3 is quite basic and easy to handle. I'll probably just run with that then. Thanks for sharing that.

[Verdugo]

Originally Posted by M-17

It seems Lightroom 3 is quite basic and easy to handle. I'll probably just run with that then. Thanks for sharing that.

Sure thing. Like I said, I do 95% of my edits in Lightroom, and only move over to Photoshop when I have to do some major cloning, skin retouching, compositing, and anything more complicated. Lightroom is able to handle everything else I throw at it, and works great for batch processing.

[WingsofWar]

I use lightroom on a mac exclusively for photo retouching. HDR is easy when you get the right exposure settings on the camera for HDR photo.

Making artificial HDR off one picture takes skill and really requires CS3+ to get the best effects vs using lightroom for HDR editing.

Heres an example i made 10 min ago for a light/mild artificial HDR on a low res photo.

[WingsofWar]

Originally Posted by Verdugo

Sure thing. Like I said, I do 95% of my edits in Lightroom, and only move over to Photoshop when I have to do some major cloning, skin retouching, compositing, and anything more complicated. Lightroom is able to handle everything else I throw at it, and works great for batch processing.

oh hey Armin...its Josh...(use to work at WorldOne before my accident in the S14)