LR3

Lightroom 3.x

Lightroom: Default Keyword

lightroom-default-keyword

Right-Click on the keyword > Use this as Keyword Shortcut will either enable or disable the default keyword.

183 Megapixels Photo

This is a humongous, ginormous, image: 183 megapixels. As you can see from the Lightroom screen capture, it is: 37,717 pixels wide by 5,110 pixels high, that's 192,733,870 pixels.

I did this image on a Canon 7D. It's a composite of 42 photos. It was part of a serie of photos that range from 35 megapixels to this one at 183 megapixels.

183 Megapixels photoThis is a humongous, ginormous, image: 183 megapixels. As you can see from the Lightroom screen capture, it is: 37,717 pixels wide by 5,110 pixels high, that's 192,733,870 pixels.I did this image on a Canon 7D. It's a composite of 42 photos. I'm not that interested in a Nikon D800, a D900, a D4, or a whatever the name will be and their rumored 36 megapixels sensor. Where are the lenses for such a sensor? At 18 megapixels per photo, it took me 2½ hours to compile the image on an iCore 7 8Gb RAM. I have so much detail that I can read the labels in the background.I can't put it on my website, I tried and it brought the web server to a crawl. I can't upload it to Smugmug. It's too big. Luckily this image is for printing. I haven't yet discussed it with the printer. I'll do that on Friday.I was able to import it in Lightroom but now Lightroom is extremely slow. The raw image is 1.6 gigabytes, that's a lot of disk IO for the preview. Looks like after the printing, I will have to delete the image from the catalog and recreate it as a JPEG with a 40% to 50% quality to make it manageable.

Lightroom: Don't Import Suspected Duplicates

Usually, when importing photos into a Lightroom catalog, the Do No Import Duplicates is checked on. The question is what's a duplicate? Everybody in their right mind would assume that 2 duplicate photos are 2 identical photos. It turns out that for programmers, 2 identical photos are not the same as 2 identical files.

What Lightroom really mean is 2 identical files. What are identical files?

  • The same name like: charlie-20111129-1234
  • The same file extension like: .cr2

This means that charlie-20111129-1234.cr2 and charlie-20111129-1234.jpg are not identical files.

Lightroom: The Case Against DNG

Adobe created the DNG format: Digital NeGative, we are at version 1.3. According to Adobe:

Key benefits for photographers:

  • DNG format helps promote archival confidence, since digital-imaging software solutions will be able to open raw files more easily in the future.
  • A single raw processing solution enables a more efficient workflow when handling raw files from multiple camera models and manufacturers.
  • A publicly documented and readily available specification can be easily adopted by camera manufacturers and updated to accommodate technology changes.

Lightroom: Importing 100 Thousand Photos -- My Summary

After a few major crashes, I decided to start from scratch, almost (I had saved all of my XMPs.) I created a new catalog and imported 93,259 photos. I was able to import all of them in less than 5 days!

Here's my summary for the:

Lightroom: Importing 100 Thousand Photos -- Part 3

In this blog post we will discuss the crux of the matter when it come to importing a large amount of photos like I had to do, 93,259 photos.

The “standard” advice is to:

  1. Render Previews 1:1 so that you don't have to wait when you are scrolling through the Develop module or browsing at 1:1

Lightroom: Importing 100 Thousand Photos -- Part 2

In Lightroom: Importing 100 Thousand Photos -- Part 1 I spoke about the importance of checking vs un-checking the Include Subfolders on the performance. Now we'll look at the basic import operations, the different ways of getting the photos into Lightroom:

Lightroom: Import Options

  1. Copy as DNG
  2. Copy
  3. Move

Lightroom: Importing 100 Thousand Photos -- Part 1

Importing photos in Lightroom is very easy to do, just like any the other camera processors. Click the import button, select the photos, press OK and some time later you are done. This works without any problem when you import only a few hundreds photos. If you want to import a thousand photos at a time, now we start to talk as much as 6 hours depending on your settings. Now try to import 10 thousand photos in a weekend, wish you good luck. A 100 thousand photos and now we are talking at least a month.

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Lightroom: 3.6 Release Candidate

The new release of Lightroom 3.6, release candidate is out at: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/lightroom3-6.html. It's a release candidate, it's not the final release of LR3.6 yet. But there's some good stuff:

  1. New cameras, mostly the Nikon 1 serie
  2. More lenses, mostly Sigma lenses with Canon mount and Mamiya lenses for Phase One
  3. Bug fixes

The most important part of this release for me are the 2 bug fixes:

  1. They have fixed some problems with the publishing

Lightroom: So Many Ways of Creating JPEGs

Lightroom has so many ways of doing the same thing, the problem is that they results in something that is often different. Duh! Of course it's different because they have different defaults/settings. The problem is that most people do not see the difference and then struggle to figure out why is the output not what they wanted/expected.

There are 4 ways of generating the JPEGs in Lightroom:

  1. From the Library module, export JPEGs with the various settings.
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