doug_barry_martin

<p>I shoot Raw and also jpg and use Bridge and Photoshop CS4. Tried Lightroom and it seems a convoluted mess. Can't get on with it. Can't seem to have easy access to commonly used folders or to do anything in a simple and elegant way (with some exceptions such as batch cropping). Probably I need to spend more time with it but I find all the importing and faffing around time-wasting and confusing.<br /> Bridge is simple and powerful (although you need to limit the number of images in any folder you are browsing to around 1Gb total or else Bridge runs out of memory (it's only real flaw). It is great for rating and selecting certain images.<br /> It is easy to configure your layout with swappable windows. Needs the preferences set to use software rendering and Keep 100% previews in cache and you are rocking and rolling.<br /> All the hard work is done in Photoshop using sets of actions. Typically - reduce image size (speeds procesing) + a bit of auto levels + set layer to 40% softlight + highlight/shadow tweaks + sharpen and finish with a snapshot. Final adjustments and de-spotting is done manually. But you can open and batch process using an action set (made up of other actions) on many images at once. This gives me a fairly well processed set of files that I save and view in bridge and I can then choose if I want to do individual Photoshop work on selected files.<br /> I open in Raw through Bridge/Photoshop using auto setting but always set brightness to 0 due to desire to keep highlight info (generally shoot at -1/3 to -2/3 under anyway due to digital sensors tendency to blow out highlights. Not so with Sigma Foveon though.)<br>

Attached photo from Canon 5D.</p><div></div>

<p>Cf cards can get bent pins but otherwise are reliable and I prefer the larger size of them (less easy to lose).</p>

<p>Looks very promising but would rather they stayed at 15Mp (which is plenty for APS-C sensor) for lower noise at Hi ISO. Now if they could just graft a Nikon shutter/on off button and front wheel on it would be even better.</p>

Patrick,

Are you serious? Reading the manual!

Anyway many people seem to be having truoble so I thought the post would help.

How to make OS X recognise your Epson printer

 

 

I have found that for OS X to recognise my Epson 7600 or CX3100 it is necessary to have the printer

CONNECTED to the computer and TURNED ON.

 

THEN you can sucessfully INSTALL the driver package.

 

THEN you can find your printer and ADD it in the printer list.

 

It's pretty simple and I am surprised Epson and Apple don't know this.

 

This works with OS 10.4.9 and earlier.