![]() The program includes more than 20 tools, including Crop, Select, Paint, and Erase, and you can add text and even logos using the simple Type tool. (Names sound familiar?)Īll Photos © 2009, Joe Farace, All Rights Reserved Pixelmator lets you create layers that can be individually edited using its tool set and offers a library of filters to fine-tune effects, including color correction tools such as Auto Levels, Auto Color, and Auto Contrast. Image-enhancement program that works with all major image file formats, including PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PICT, BMP, and PDF, and offers more than 130 filters and special effects, from blur and sharpen functions to filters such as comic-style and kaleidoscope. Smith Micro Software’s ( Pixelmator is an easy to use, yet powerful The week-sometimes day-does not go by without some PR person e-mailing or calling about some inexpensive Windows-based image-editing program that’s “just as good as Photoshop.” It seldom is, of course, but that’s why I’m impressed with a Mac OS-only offering that, while it may not be as good as Photoshop, is a strong challenger to Photoshop Elements, is more Mac OS friendly, and costs just $59. One possible answer to the proverbial question “what is pro gear” might rightly be answered in this month’s Web Profiles (I don’t want to ruin the surprise), but a more conventional answer will be found in this column, which provides a look at the kind of software and camera hardware that can make a useful contribution to working pros and aspiring professionals’ productivity as well as creativity. Look for "lightroom backup" on this site (or check this one specifically).“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”-Isaac Asimov What I make sure to do, however, is to carefully backup my catalog so that these memories we are preserving are not lost. Personally, I do not let LR export metadata automatically for performance reasons, and I rarely save the metadata back. At this point, yes, you can say DNG is a bit more convenient, especially if you want to share these settings with somebody else. If it's a DNG file, LR will be store these settings directly within the file itself. If your photo is a JPEG file, LR will create a XMP sidecar. Everything you can do with a Linear DNG you can already do with a JPEG file in the Lightroom UI.Īs far as metadata and develop adjustments are concerned, they are stored in Lightroom's catalog file, unless you tell LR to export them automatically, or do so manually by selecting "Metadata -> Save Metadata to file". ![]() ![]() However, you do not increase the quality of your JPEG file by converting it to Linear DNG. It is supported by LR and is used for cameras with Foveon sensors for example. There is a " Linear DNG" variation that can store a demosaiced RGB image data arranged in a rectilinear format. Think of a JPEG file as a "baked" version of a RAW file. Its data structure, bit depth and format are very different from the RGB pixels found in a JPEG file. For instance, your typical DNG file doesn't contain a color space. What you can do, however, is select your JPEG file in LR, and export it as DNG, then re-import that DNG file.ĭNG is really designed for RAW sensor data. If you import a JPEG file in "Copy as DNG" mode, LR will prompt an error dialog saying, in substance: "Non-raw files were not converted to DNG". Benefits or disadvantages aside, you can't import JPEG as DNG in Lightroom (to my knowledge).
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