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pecunium ([personal profile] pecunium) wrote2009-01-06 02:34 pm

While I ponder

I am trying to digest the shooting in SF. For reasons personal I am not likely to watch the video (it's not that I'm squeamish, I just dislike seeing people killed).

In the meanwhile I've tried the uploading tool for Flickr. Meh. It truncates the photo info. Since I like having the photo info that's a "war stopper" for me. Which sucks, because I like all the other features. The ability to see the images (so I don't have to recall which file = which name), is great. Being able to edit the tags, descriptions, etc. before I upload things; so they aren't up there for all to see before I to all that, also really nice.

Being able to post to more than one set at a time is wonderful (because I am sort of lazy. At five-ten minutes per photo to get them uploaded, tagged, and described, going in and taking more time to sort them into sets, one set at a time, is just more hassle).

So, I either need to figure out a way to edit the data, so it does upload, or use the tool as a way to get the order right, so I can use the default tool flicker has.

That, or stop publishing shooting data.

Thoughts?

The Light

[identity profile] rubin110.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well then, might I suggest giving the 30 day lightroom trial a go? :P

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

It helped me organize my photos, not lose original images by accidentally overwriting them through Photoshop, and speed up my old workflow since I'm not working with 3 different applications. From memory card to Flickr, the majority of my photos only touch Lightroom.

[identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com 2009-01-07 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
I might, at some point when I have the time to spend making the trial worth the time.

Things which make me like LightZone are the non-destructive edits of everything. No matter what the format of the original file the edits are done on the side, and applied at output.

If I weren't interested in having .tifs, for commercial reasons, I'd just use Lightzone to convert to flickr-sized .jpgs and have done, but I need a tiff.

Which means I have a slightly more involved workflow, with filing protocols, and the like, effectively setting up batches of work in each category. I really do need to write it up.

I am rarely working in more than one edtiting app at a time, and when I am it's because I am being irritated at processing time and multi-tasking in one program while another is crunching numbers.