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Adobe Lightroom 3 - Copy & Paste RAW settings to a group
of image files
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One
of the main concerns of Digital SLR users these days is getting
past the dull lifeless looking RAW image files that come out
of their expensive cameras. Basically what has happened is
that camera manufacturers want to give photographers the greatest
amount of leeway in both directions of under and overexposure,
flat and contrasty images, sharp and smooth images, etc. In
order to do that they have to give the boring middle.
To make things worse photographers
have been getting used to the over sharpened and over saturated
images that have been dialed into consumer digital cameras
for the last ten years or so and are shocked when they get
their first view of the RAW images coming out of their very
expensive new Digital SLR.
Digital SLR cameras can also
be configured to provide over sharpened and oversaturate images
but these images are only available as JPEGs or as in-camera
adjusted RAW images, if you are using the manufacturer's RAW
image handling software once the files leave the camera.
So in order to get what you
perceive as your photographic vision out of a Digital SLR
(without individually starting from scratch and laboring intensely
over every single image) you must set up an adjustment preset
that can be applied to groups of images before going into
fine adjustments for individual images.
The
best way to accomplish this task in Adobe Lightroom is to
carefully make all the adjustments required in the Develop
Module and then copy (Shift-Cmd-C) and paste (Shift-Cmd-V)
those settings to a group of images and/or save them as a
Preset.
As
far as which settings are concerned, my advice is to be conservative
and to keep the number of settings to a minimum. Your specific
camera and average shooting conditions will determine what
is needed.
Applying
the Nikon D200 RAW adjustment Preset to a group of images
in the Library Module.
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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