Let’s see if you recognize the symptoms: changing pictures in the library becomes painfully slow, selecting more than one image takes ages, all that while the developing module remains quite quick in use. That’s the dreaded Lightroom 5 slow-down.
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How to get the right colors from negative films
Scanning color negatives is the Holy Grail of the film lover. The scanning part, per se, is no different that the one you have to carry with any other film, color or black and white. The tricky part comes when you try to obtain natural, or at the very least, pleasant colors from that piece …
The importance of choosing the right raw converter
A while ago I tested pretty much all the raw converters available at the time with a Canon 5D Mark II: https://www.addicted2light.com/2012/05/28/review-raw-converters-mega-test-part-i/ But I advised in the review that the results were camera-dependant, meaning that each software gives the best possible results with a specific sensor / camera combination. This does not mean that the …
Review: Magic Lantern, for photographers
I don’t do a lot of video, if anything at all. For this reason I, like many others fellow photographers, have ignored till now a piece of software that every respectable videographer uses since the beginning. I’m talking about Magic Lantern. In short, it is an alternative firmware, free and open source, that works in …
Review: Core Image Fun House raw converter
Today we’ll talk about an Apple Aperture little brother: Core Image Fun House. A little brother that is also free! In a previous post, the Raw Converters Mega Test, I wrote about a Photoshop sharpening technique called 4 rounds sharpening. It consists in the application of 4 different rounds (as the name suggests) of smart …
Review: Raw Converters Mega Test part V
If you haven’t read the first four parts please take a look at them, because there you may see the images unsharpened and sharpened with various tools, and you’ll learn about the specifics of this comparison. Raw Converters Mega Test part I Raw Converters Mega Test part II Raw Converters Mega Test part III Raw …