danmarchant

Paul Ron's answer is spot on. She simply won't win a case for a refund based on one photo not printing - especially when you have offered to help and she has ignored you/refused.

When a client ignores repeated polite requests for payment you should promptly move to the next step.... legal action. How you do that will depend on the law in your country. Generally the first step is to send a recorded delivery letter giving them a final chance to pay (usually a 7 day deadline) and informing them that if they fail to pay in full you will commence legal action. If they don't pay you then have to commence legal action.

<p>Even if the ink is good quality you would almost certainly need to create a custom profile for them as they wont be exactly the same as OEM inks.</p>

<p>You said "a couple of years" so that would lead me to believe you are using Lightroom 4 or 5. As both of these are using the latest process engine nothing will happen to your old images if you upgrade to the latest Lightroom CC. All you old processing will remain and LR CC will be able to read and display it. Your old catalog will be upgraded (or more accurately a new version/copy will be created) and the old one will remain on your HD.<br> <br />The only problem that may occur is if you later decide to cancel your CC subscription as older versions of LR can't read catalogs/adjustments made by newer versions. So, you couldn't open your LR CC catalog using your old version of LR 4/5. You would either have to buy a copy of stand alone LR6 (if a stand alone version is still offered for sale) or use your deactivated LRCC to export TIFF versions of your processed files (with changes baked in). </p>

<p>It's what is known as vanity publishing and its a very old business model/scam. Poetry and short story publishing were a common examples where this was used. Any submission to a publisher was accepted and then all the people whose work was accepted bought the over priced books.... in fact they were the only ones who did as the books were never actually distributed to book shops as the poems/short stories were often pretty bad.</p>

<p>1. It depends what country/state you are in. Laws are different in different parts of the world.<br> 2. It depends what you mean by commercial use. Many people use the term to mean "earn money" but the law defines commercial use in a much stricter manner as "use to advertise, promote or market a cause, product, company or service". Selling prints for example is not commercial use.</p>

<p>I can't see any reason why you would need two catalogs to achieve what you want. If you want to separate personal and professional simply... <br />1. Create two folders. One personal, one professional.2. Set up an Import preset to import images to the personal folder (and apply any other settings you might want applied) - this could include adding a "personal" keyword and putting the images into dated sub folders.<br />3. Set up a second Import preset to import images to the professional folder (and apply any other settings you might want applied) - this could include adding a "professional" keyword and putting the images into dated sub folders.<br /><br />During image import simply select the preset you want and LR will do the rest.<br> To view either set go to the LR Library Folder panel and simply click to hide the contents of the folder you don't want to see and do likewise to open the folder you do want to see. You can switch between personal and professional in one second, which is a massive saving of 9 seconds each time you switch, compared to using two catalogs. A more serious advantage is that you can search through all images (if you want to) and you don't need to maintain two separate keyword libraries.</p>

<p>As Craig says. Whatever software you are currently using to edit/post process should also be able to add watermarks.</p>

<p>I have PSE but I seldom use it. I do 99% of my editing in LR and only use PSE for the occasional job that requires layers or more detailed cloning. I expect that people who do more compositing and other digital retouching would use it more (or use PS).</p>

<p>Did you export them all as a batch or each image individually? I have used F2 to rename a batch of images in LR before and had one of the images fail to rename. Similar thing has occurred when batch moving files, with one refusing to move. I doesn't happen often and I have never been able to work out why. I assume it must be a temporary permissions issue with the file. It always moves/renames when I retry.</p>

<blockquote> <p><em>My first two tasks were painting the whole studio as well as the kitchen area (he lives in his studio).....<br /></em></p> </blockquote> <p>If he was teaching you Karate then this might be useful. Wax on, wax off, paint the fence.....</p>

<p>Does Michigan not have a minimum wage law? If you aren't being paid and you aren't learning anything then there is really no point being there. You would be better off at KFC. At least there you get free "food".</p>

<p>I would point out to the Realtor that if the seller is paying then you have to do what they want, which may not result in the sort of images the Realtor needs to get their job done.</p>

<blockquote> <p><em>I would like to get folks to pick some lavender, so can I make it a minimum number of bunches per shoot instead of an amount of money?</em></p> </blockquote> <p><em><br /></em>I would suggest sticking to money. If they are there to photograph the lavender/clients standing in the lavender they aren't going to want to spend time having to pick the lavender and they probably won't want it once picked.... they are there for photos. Better for both parties if you keep it simple and just charge a fee.<br /><br />I don't know what a good fee would be. Assuming this is landscape or wedding photography anywhere from $25-50 for up to 2 hours. If it is a big commercial shoot for a shampoo ad campaign probably more. If there is a national park near you check their site and see what they charge for commercial shoots.</p>

<p>Lightroom's Import dialogue allows you to automatically change the file name at the time of import. I have mine set up to add "DM852-" then the date in Year-month-day format to the file name; EG DM852-2012-02-19-5367.CR2.<br> When the camera does finally loop around to 5367 again the year will be different so the file names can never clash (unless I get a job photographing for Time Traveller Weekly).</p>