On Dec 27, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:39, Eric Weir wrote: > >> On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >>> No, when you are done processing your RAW image, everything is >>> automatically saved. There's no save button to click. But also remember >>> that with Lightroom, if you come back to a RAW image, and don't like what >>> you've done, just click the reset button and it will go back to the >>> original RAW image. You can do this as many times as you want. >> >> Thanks, Christine. Good news -- on both counts. > > You can also make a "virtual copy" (or MULTIPLE virtual copies) of a > particularly-tricky image, and then go about it with any number of different > methods on each copy. > > I do this when I want to edit some square-cropped images to put on my phone. > Or if I want to experiment with a B&W copy of a particular image. > > For quick 'n' dirty "let's see what the automatic settings do" editing, on > the Mac it's CMD-U to set the brightness levels automatically, and > CMD-SHIFT-U to set the "tone". > > I find the auto settings tend to do a few things other than what I prefer: > the black level gets set too dark for too much of the image, and the tone > tends to get set colder than what I like. BUT - if you have NO idea where to > start with an image, sometimes you can get a little closer to where you want > to be with the auto settings.
Thanks, Charles. That's what I was looking for. Didn't know about either. That said, I'm bogged down in a stupid little writing project -- it's not actually stupid -- that shoulda been done weeks ago and is keeping my from my photo editing experiments. What kind of photographer is that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
