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Android, DNG and Lightroom

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Mike Nelson Pedde — 17 Comments ↓

Hi Folks:

Both of us currently have Samsung Galaxy S6 phones. Samsung makes a nice phone, but that’s not what this post is about. One of the reasons we upgraded from our S4 phones (which we sent to Rainforest Connection) is that with Android Lollipop, Google made raw files available for the first time, in .dng format. Now, if you’re not sure what a raw file is or what .dng format is, this post may not be for you. If you wish to carry on please feel free to do so, but you may wish to review this first: Essentials of Digital Photography. Continue Reading →

Posted in Photography | Tagged .DNG, Android, Camera FV-5, Galaxy S6, Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, Lr, metadata, photography, Samsung, tutorial | 17 Comments ↓

Lightroom History, Snapshots and Virtual Copies

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Mike Nelson Pedde — 2 Comments ↓

Hi Folks:

I was thinking I should subtitle this post, “Where is the Save button in Lightroom?” because I see that question pop up on social media from time to time and that’s really the basis for this post.  The short answer is: There isn’t one.  A slightly longer answer is: There isn’t one because Lightroom doesn’t need one.  Basically, when you open a file in most computer programs – whether it be MS Word, Photoshop or TurboTax for your income tax – and you make a change, you’re altering the file you have open.  In order to keep those changes, you need to save the file by either overwriting the original file or creating a second copy (Save As…)  Now Lightroom is essentially a database program, so when you import an image into Lightroom what you’re doing is referencing wherever the image is stored on your hard drive or other device.  Lightroom creates a line in its database that says, “This image is located here.”  From that reference Lightroom creates its own preview images and works with those previews.  When you export an image from Lightroom what it does is to take the information from the originally referenced image file, optimize and add in the changes that you’ve made in Lightroom and create a new image file based on the original image, the changes you’ve made and the export parameters you’ve set.  If you’re working with a rendered image file (.jpg, .tif, .psd, etc.) technically you can export an image to the same folder as the original referenced image and tell Lightroom to overwrite the original image, but that’s rather missing the point of the entire ‘non-destructive’ pipeline.  There are pros and cons to both pixel editing and parametric (non-destructive) editing and a place for each, but this isn’t the place for that discussion. Continue Reading →

Posted in Photography | Tagged Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, history, Lightroom, metadata, photo, photography, save, snapshots, tutorial, virtual copies, virtual copy | 2 Comments ↓

More on Lightroom and Metadata

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Mike Nelson Pedde — Leave a reply

Hi Folks:

Someone on Twitter recently asked about understanding Lightroom’s various metadata fields.  I responded by providing a link to our Lightroom, File Management and Metadata post.  She wrote back and basically said, ‘Thanks for the information, but what I really want to know is what all of those fields are for…”  So I wrote the following.  She seemed to appreciate it, and I thought it might be of use to you as well. Continue Reading →

Posted in Photography | Tagged Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, DAM, digital asset management, Lightroom, metadata, photo, photography, tutorial | Leave a reply

Lightroom, File Management and Metadata

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Mike Nelson Pedde — 8 Comments ↓

Hi Folks:

This has been covered before on other sites (and to some extent on ours), but since I recently explained all of this to someone on Twitter I thought I’d take what I wrote then and massage it into some form of post for our blog.

To begin with we need to cover a few terms. One is that, as I mentioned in our Should I Get Lightroom or Photoshop or…? post, a digital image isn’t really an ‘image’ in the traditional sense. It starts as light, gets converted into electrical impulses by the camera’s sensor, and is then translated into binary code – 1s and 0s – as a digital file. Be that as it may, there are two aspects to each digital image. One is the image information itself – the code that is assembled to create the image on your computer screen or as a print, and the other is information about the image. This starts in the camera and can include the camera make/model/serial number, the exposure information, date and time of the image capture, the lens, focal length (for zoom lenses), GPS information and more. When the image is transferred to the computer one can add copyright information, keywords, owner contact information… All of this is collectively called ‘metadata’. This metadata is stored in one of two ways, depending on the type of digital image you’re working with. For .TIF, .PSD, .JPG and .DNG files, the metadata is stored within the image file itself. For raw images, a second file, often called a ‘sidecar’ file is generated. Sidecar files have an .XMP extension. Therefore, for a Canon raw file for example, one would have IMG0001.cr2 for the image data, and IMG0001.xmp for the metadata information.

Continue Reading →

Posted in Photography | Tagged Adobe, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, catalog, DAM, database, database management system, DBMS, digital asset management, image, Julieanne Kost, Lightroom, metadata, photo, photography, tutorial, Wikipedia | 8 Comments ↓

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