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What's the difference between using RAW or JPG with After Effects?
I am making some timelapse videos. And I have around 1500 photos in RAW format. I did some adjustoments in Lightroom and then imported these RAW files to After Effects. But After Effects processed ...
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How to properly deal with lens distortion in Sony NEX RAW files?
I have a Sony NEX6 camera and when using the 16-50 kit lens the photos shot in RAW has a lot of distortions. You either have to let the camera correct it using jpeg or you are expected to use Sony's ...
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Converting / re-compressing select photos in Lightroom
As my Lightroom catalog grows ther eare some photographs I would like to preserve, but where I don't need all the editing latitude offered by RAW.
I know I can convert them to DNG, but are there ...
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How can I easily replace raw files with jpeg format in Lightroom?
I only shoot in RAW, but for a normal travel trip I don't want to keep all photos in RAW because they occupy a lot of storage space. Is there a plugin in Lightroom to click a photo and convert the RAW ...
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Quality of ImageMagick CR2 to JPEG conversion
Is there any quality difference between ImageMagick and Lightroom, when converting CR2 to JPEG in 100% quality?
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Raw development in Lightroom 4.1 and Digital Photo Professional 3.9.x – bad vs. good?
I have opened the same raw image from my Canon EOS 550D (CR2) in Lightroom and Digital Photo Professional. This are the default raw development results:
Lightroom:
Digital Photo Professional:
Why ...
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Cannot open Photoshop RAW file in Lightroom
I am using the latest (as of September 2012) versions of Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4, from the Creative Cloud.
I do product photography and in my workflow I shoot multi-focus pictures of the same ...
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Recommended start point for sharpening RAW Images
I'm just beginning to get back into serious photography after a very long time away. I've toyed with digital, but this is my first foray into trying to do controlled creative work in the digital ...
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RAW Conversion is better on Canon Utilities or LightRoom?
I have always used Picasa as I was with point and shot camera. Now, I want to learn photography and have brought a Canon DSLR with which I got Canon Utilities to manage the pictures and video. On ...
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Photo Processing - What am I doing wrong?
I seem to have a problem processing photos and I am not sure where I am going wrong.
The issue is on my desktop monitor the photos look great. Overall vivid color, brightness, contrast etc. When I ...
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What to do in Lightroom when shooting both RAW and JPEG?
I have recently started:
Shooting both RAW & JPEG
Using Lightroom 4
Currently when I import my photos into Lightroom I am using the (default) option to ignore duplicates, this means that only ...
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Why would one want to include the original RAW inside of a DNG?
I'm interested in starting to convert my photos to DNG instead of NEF, because it allows Lightroom to embed it's metadata into the actual files, and because the "fast indexing" feature makes ...
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Why do my sRGB exports from Lightroom look different from RAW files shown in the program even though my monitor can only show sRGB?
I have read tons of docs about color management over the Web, but there is something I can't understand.
I have a screen that can only render the RGB color space.
It is very well calibrated using ...
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How can I export reduced resolution RAW files from Lightroom?
I read that in Lightroom 4 is possible to export reduced resolution raw files.
Does anybody know how to do it?
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How to make Lightroom recognize geotags in NEF files?
I usually geotag my pictures with Picasa + Google Earth, while using Lightroom 3.4 for everything else. While this works fine with JPEG pictures, I've discovered that apparently LR doesn't recognize ...
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Batch process RAW -> JPG with Photoshop or Lightroom (raw import)?
I have around ~1200 photos shot from an event. I was shooting to raw only. My ISO was quite high, 3200, but since my camera handles high isos perfectly (Canon 60D), all I need is to boost up the noise ...
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How to mass convert RAW images into JPEG in Lightroom 3?
I have 1000 raw photos that I would like to convert all to jpg. Is there a way I can do this all at once or can I only do it one by one?
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How do I start with in-camera JPEG settings in Lightroom?
I'm a novice shooting in RAW and find that half the time my camera JPEG images come out better than my Lightroom tweaks to RAW files.
So to give myself a better start I'd like to apply the JPEG ...
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Why do my photos look different in Photoshop/Lightroom vs Canon EOS utility/in camera?
I've recently been shooting in raw with my new 100mm usm is macro but I'm getting strange results in out of focus areas with bright colours in. I've used Lightroom for ages and not had any issues with ...
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How do I import Olympus E-PL2 raw files in Lightroom 3.3 for Windows?
I want to know how I could import a RAW file from an Olympus E-PL2 to Lightroom 3.3.
If not possible, how I could as least view this in Windows 7 and Vista?
I installed the Raw Codec from Olympus but ...
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How do I export RAW files from Lightroom?
If I haven't imported my RAW files into Lightroom with the sidecar files attached, how can I save/export the file so that another person can open the file and not have to re-do all my work?
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Will converting images to DNG improve post-processing performance in Lightroom?
I would like to know if converting my RAW files to DNG will improve the overall speed of Lightroom. The most painful issue is that it takes between 5 and 10 seconds to get my 1:1 image rendered when I ...
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How do I fix RAW images that appear washed out in Lightroom3?
When I open raw/NEF images in Lightroom, they appear washed out as compared to viewing them in Picasa (same computer monitor). If I open JPEGs, they're fine in Lightroom.
Anyone know how to fix ...
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What workflow should I use for processing RAW photos in Lightroom?
I started shooting in RAW, and I use Adobe Lightroom.
What workflow would you recommend to use for the processing?
I will really appreciate a detailed description of the steps (or a link to one).
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Which Lightroom import presets should I use to get output like that from Capture NX?
When I import NEF photos into Lightroom, they do not look as good as they appear when importing into Capture NX. The colours look a little more muddy and there is a lack of contrast.
This means that ...
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Why does my Lightroom preview change after loading?
Everybody who is using Lightroom probably has seen this:
You have imported RAW files. Lightroom shows a preview, but contrast and color of the preview change after a few short seconds to a slightly ...
