Comments on: Friday’s Tip - The Alt/Option Key http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/ Photoshop Lightroom News, Tips, Tutorials, Videos and more. Simplify Photography from shoot to finish. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Klemen http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48307 Klemen Sat, 24 May 2008 21:58:53 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48307 Hi all you nice people out there :) So, here's the thing. We all know transferring presets from LR1.4 to LR2b isn't a big deal and that it works (almost) seamlessly. But here's my story. A friend of mine made a photo of a snail. He imported it in his LR1.4, and I've put it in LR2b. It was a Pentax K10D raw DNG file. So he made his adjustments, I've made mine... And later we compared the results. I liked his "interpretation", so I've asked him to post some screen shots of his settings and tried to set up the same thing in my LR. And I got a totally different result. Hm? So I've asked him to create a preset, which he emailed to me. I imported the preset in LR2b, applied it... And it was still incorrect. So I've tried the same in LR1.4, imported the dng file, applied the preset and it was the same as my friend's pic. OK, strange! I've converted the photo to jpeg, applied the preset in both and thotos looked the same in both LRs. I've tested the preset on one CRW file (Canon raw), and it was the same in both LRs. So nothing wrong with the preset, I suppose. OK, to cut the story short... I would kindly ask anyone, who has an option to test the dng file and the preset in LR1.4 and LR2b, to post the results (a simple "Pic looks the same/doesn't look the same" will do). I've uploaded a zip with a dng and lrtemplate file here: http://miranov.net/datoteke/lr2.zip Thanks in advance! (Also, if someone has a chance to test it with some other "non-Pentax" dng, it would be great!) P.S. I know it's not post related, sorry about that! Hi all you nice people out there :)
So, here’s the thing. We all know transferring presets from LR1.4 to LR2b isn’t a big deal and that it works (almost) seamlessly. But here’s my story.
A friend of mine made a photo of a snail. He imported it in his LR1.4, and I’ve put it in LR2b. It was a Pentax K10D raw DNG file. So he made his adjustments, I’ve made mine… And later we compared the results. I liked his “interpretation”, so I’ve asked him to post some screen shots of his settings and tried to set up the same thing in my LR. And I got a totally different result. Hm? So I’ve asked him to create a preset, which he emailed to me. I imported the preset in LR2b, applied it… And it was still incorrect. So I’ve tried the same in LR1.4, imported the dng file, applied the preset and it was the same as my friend’s pic. OK, strange! I’ve converted the photo to jpeg, applied the preset in both and thotos looked the same in both LRs. I’ve tested the preset on one CRW file (Canon raw), and it was the same in both LRs. So nothing wrong with the preset, I suppose. OK, to cut the story short…

I would kindly ask anyone, who has an option to test the dng file and the preset in LR1.4 and LR2b, to post the results (a simple “Pic looks the same/doesn’t look the same” will do). I’ve uploaded a zip with a dng and lrtemplate file here: http://miranov.net/datoteke/lr2.zip
Thanks in advance!
(Also, if someone has a chance to test it with some other “non-Pentax” dng, it would be great!)
P.S. I know it’s not post related, sorry about that!

]]> By: Rod http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48230 Rod Sat, 24 May 2008 15:23:55 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48230 Unfortunately the two HDR products mentioned above are pretty much useless for those using a Mac as neither one will run natively in that environment. -Rod Unfortunately the two HDR products mentioned above are pretty much useless for those using a Mac as neither one will run natively in that environment.

-Rod

]]> By: John B http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48203 John B Sat, 24 May 2008 13:47:38 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48203 Here is a link to another HDR program that works pretty well. It is called Dynamic-PHOTO HDR http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html There is a free trial download on the site. This may have been posted already. Here is a link to another HDR program that works pretty well. It is called Dynamic-PHOTO HDR

http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html

There is a free trial download on the site. This may have been posted already.

]]> By: MarkH http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48175 MarkH Sat, 24 May 2008 11:19:16 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48175 thanks for the Crop tip Sean, I've been looking for this for ages! thanks for the Crop tip Sean, I’ve been looking for this for ages!

]]> By: Sean McCormack http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48106 Sean McCormack Sat, 24 May 2008 03:06:29 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48106 Let's see.. Alt will turn the Adjustment brush into an Eraser, Alt will turn Clarity and Vibrance into Sharpening and Saturation in Quick Develop. Alt in crop lets you drag everything into the center. Alt in Sharpening lets you see luminosity, radius effect area, detail effect and the actual mask. Alt in Keyword Sets activates the Keypad to add Keywords Alt actives Solo mode in the panels and in Export. There's a wee start.. Let’s see..

Alt will turn the Adjustment brush into an Eraser,
Alt will turn Clarity and Vibrance into Sharpening and Saturation in Quick Develop.
Alt in crop lets you drag everything into the center.

Alt in Sharpening lets you see luminosity, radius effect area, detail effect and the actual mask.

Alt in Keyword Sets activates the Keypad to add Keywords

Alt actives Solo mode in the panels and in Export.

There’s a wee start..

]]> By: Clyde Wallin http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48042 Clyde Wallin Fri, 23 May 2008 21:10:02 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48042 Matt: After reading your remarks concerning the Alt key, I discovered by accident that if, after you've adjusted the Exposure and the Blacks to a point that you like, you still have some clipping in the highlights, you can hold down the Alt key while bringing up the Recovery slider until the clipped areas disappear (the lights go out) and you can recover the blown out areas.(I assume this works on a Mac as well as a Windows machine.) This does not work for the Fill light slider, however. Also, I've been following your HDR comments: Don't know if you are aware of easyHDR or not, but I think you'd like it, since it will give you a nice picture and not a 'surreal' photo, although you can tweak it for that...if that's what you want. I like and use both Photomatix Pro and easyHDR. If you're interested the link is as follows: http://www.easyhdr.com Clyde Wallin Matt:
After reading your remarks concerning the Alt key, I discovered by accident that if, after you’ve adjusted the Exposure and the Blacks to a point that you like, you still have some clipping in the highlights, you can hold down the Alt key while bringing up the Recovery slider until the clipped areas disappear (the lights go out) and you can recover the blown out areas.(I assume this works on a Mac as well as a Windows machine.)
This does not work for the Fill light slider, however.

Also, I’ve been following your HDR comments: Don’t know if you are aware of easyHDR or not, but I think you’d like it, since it will give you a nice picture and not a ’surreal’ photo, although you can tweak it for that…if that’s what you want. I like and use both Photomatix Pro and easyHDR. If you’re interested the link is as follows: http://www.easyhdr.com

Clyde Wallin

]]> By: Seim Effects http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48020 Seim Effects Fri, 23 May 2008 18:30:57 +0000 http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/fridays-tip-the-altoption-key/#comment-48020 Cool tip Matt. There's so many little nuggets to be has in pro level software. You inspired me to try this out, so I hit alt in the D module. I noticed that all panels change a little when alt/option is pressed, and not just sliders. You probably know this, but for example if you hit ALT the "Presence" panel will change to "Reset Presence" and if you click on the text it will reset that panel to default. This seems to work on each panel independently. Gav Cool tip Matt. There’s so many little nuggets to be has in pro level software.

You inspired me to try this out, so I hit alt in the D module. I noticed that all panels change a little when alt/option is pressed, and not just sliders.

You probably know this, but for example if you hit ALT the “Presence” panel will change to “Reset Presence” and if you click on the text it will reset that panel to default. This seems to work on each panel independently.

Gav

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