Agreed. I bought myself a Spyder 3 screen calibrator some months ago, and it made a huge difference in how the photos look on-screen vs how they look when printed. Apart from needing to correct the colours, most screens are also set too bright, and this results in the printed photos being too dark as well as not having the correct colours. The calibrator sorted out both the colours and the brightness for me. I can bring mine with me the next time I visit JHB, and will gladly calibrate your monitor for you - let me know if you are interested.
Thanks for the offer, sounds good. Pm me when next you plan to be up here.
As I said, I'm not an expert with Lightroom, but from the little bit that I played with it I gathered that it only "imports" some data about each photo into it's database. Whatever changes you make to the photo is only recorded in the database as well, and one thus needs to save a "sidecar" file WITH the actual image if you want the changes to be visible once the image is opened in another viewer/editor program. Obviously, once a photo has been converted and saved in (say) jpeg format, the image will remain changed, but if one opens the (edited) RAW file in (say) Canon DPP or even in Photoshop without the additional sidecar file, the image loses all it's editing. I just prefer to load the physical image into a sub-folder of my choice with Adobe Bridge, and then to edit the RAW image using Camera Raw (part of the CS3/4/5 "suite" of programs). As I said earlier, I'm probably just old-fashioned with this... Lightroom apparently works great for most people
I think i understand what you are trying to say but do not know CS5.
I download the RAW file to an external backup drive. I then import the raw file to LR and edit. the original remains untouched. The edit process is stored in LR so if you recall the PIC one can still get the original or any step of the edit process. So if one say darkens blacks in an edit and saves the jay peg. one can still go back to the step before the darken and add say blue to the background. Difficult to explain. Will show you what i mean when we get together.
Hennie
PM me. Might not answer this week as i leave for Sodwana in the morning and will be back on Monday.
