naive Lightroom question

[Scott Root]

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How does a person get Lightroom to automatically incorporate the M8 DNG profiles upon uploading files into the Lightroom library? I have to manually adjust each picture separately to the beta 2 profiles by use of the pull-down menu in the Camera Calibration section of Develop in order to get the profile changed from Adobe Standard to Camera Standard beta 2. And, to make things worse it has to be done picture-by-picture with only the first selected of a group receiving the change. Help please!

[OwinThomas]

You should be able to apply the profiles on inport.

 

After further reading you will be able to make a default profile for your M8, which will be applied when you import the images from the camera. See the folllowing link to the Adobe Lightroom webpage. Scroll down about 2/3rds of the page to the section headed "Camera Specific Settings". It should explain, better than I could, how to achieve it.

[hoppyman]

Yes you want to create a new develop preset and set it as your default. You can include much more than this one setting, for example different sharpening and noise reduction defaults and really anything that you find you are using all of the time.

 

Once you apply a particular profile then it is exported with new versions of the file automatically and you will see that profile available to apply to any M8 file that you look at in LR. You can edit and delete ones you don't want, if desired.

 

Also you certainly can change the camera calibration (profile) applied to multiple files at once.

You use the synchronise options to apply the same adjustments at once to as many selected images as you want.

 

LR help is very good but if you prefer to have printed references, the Martin Evening book is really a bible. There are others of course

[Scott Root]

Thank you Owin and Geoff, your advise has helped me get it working as you described.

 

With gratitude,

 

Scott

[hoppyman]

No worries Scott.

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[Scott Root]

The plot thickens...

Expermenting with preferences under the pull-down edit tab leads me to the conclusion that the "Make defaults specific to camera ISO settings" setting is less inclusive of the DNG files affected by the prescribed DNG profile by only impossing the prescribed DNG profile settings on files with files with same ISO. So, in summary, a person should only make use of the "Make defaults specific to camera serial number" to safely imposse the prescribed DNG profile on all fiiles associated with that camera and forget using the "Make defaults specific to camera ISO settings." Is this an accurate summary of those two settings?

[hoppyman]

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Yes.

Probably the most useful application of using default specific to ISO is where you want to apply different amounts of noise reduction and capture sharpening (they work together).

 

For example if you were shooting a lot at say 1250 ISO you might want to start with some noise reduction that is not required at lower ISOs.

 

Specific to camera serial number is very useful. Perhaps intended to let you discriminate between two individual cameras of the same model that vary in results but more useful for sorting by camera model. Unless you own five M9s or something

 

For example if you shoot with say a Compact System Camera with a kit zoom and the M9 your capture sharpening defaults might usefully be different.

 

Whatever you start with in Raw of course can be varied/redeveloped in individual cases without penalty

[EJohnE]

Another naive question.

Is there any way of inverting the dark grey/black background and grey/white text? My CS version is white with black text, and far easier for me to read. I bought Elements 9, and that is very murky for rather poor eyesight. Yesterday I downloaded Lightroom 3.xx to find it nearly impossible, even compared with the 1.4.1 version I can (just) use.

I gave up on Adobe's phone inefficiently after over 48 minutes of boring low-fi musak: and they never seem to answer anything other than a sales enquiry over the net.

Which was the last CS version which had white background? I will try to buy such.

Disgruntled John.

[delander †]

Photoshop CS5/ACR has black text on light grey tool panels and black text on very light grey in the menus. Easier than Elements by far.

 

Jeff

[hoppyman]

You can change the windows at least. I'll take a look around

Edit>Preferences>interface

[EJohnE]

Photoshop CS5/ACR has black text on light grey tool panels and black text on very light grey in the menus. Easier than Elements by far.

 

 

Thank you. I will download a trial copy before trading in the neighbours' children to purchase it.

 

John.

[hoppyman]

I searched the Martin Evening bible with no success and then I found a reference in the Lightroom forum at Adobe.

It says that you can only change the window backgrounds, not the appearance of the menus. (You can make the font larger though)

I think the current scheme was chosen to deliberately make the areas surrounding the windows darker and neutral. This is important when you are trying to judge colurs in your images.

[EJohnE]

Thanks for searching, Geoff.

I downloaded CS5 after fighting with Adobe's Assailant or whatever some demented bureaucratic designer calls it. CS5 is easier to view, but I wonder if I need it, as I use only about 20% of CS's (Photoshop 8) features.

For the last several years, I have used Lumiquest's UltraImage plug-in for adjustments beyond my feeble mind's ability. All I need to do is set leveles and curves. It chuffs along capably to produce quite good results.

Thanks to both.

John.