Digital Light & Color

I've just been processing NYE's firework photos. I took the shots as jpegs so I could continuous shoot when appropriate. After triaging, I processed my favourites in a workflow as follows: Straighten (breakpoint), crop (breakpoint), sharpen, sharpen, save as jpeg. To my surprise the new images were ...

I'm not too sure. I think that I favour PWP being the best available tool for what it does best. And to offer a range of other facilities for convenience. To be the best at everything??? At present I (as a amateur) use: EyeFi to 'capture' files. Fast Picture Viewer for triage Geosetter for GPS (usin...

Ouch!

Shortly after the breakpoint widgets were first introduced Den posted a very useful tutorial which (among many other things) suggested setting preferences to Auto preview when using the workflow. I've found this a convenient thing to do, but I forget to change back when out of the workflow and invar...

When I moved to 64bit the scanning software supplied by Epson for my Perfection 3200 Photo no longer worked and the only solution that I could find was to (buy and) install Vuescan.
It is available here: http://www.hamrick.com/
It took a little getting used to, but it works well.
Mike.

Removing images from my workflow doesn't release memory. I'm running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium with 8GB of RAM. Method. Open workflow, load 4 tiff images and load 7 widget workflow. The workflow shows 4 images 382.63MB Using Windows Task Manager I can see memory in use shown at 1.78GB. Run the wo...

Had another more orderly trial, but soon got into a mess. One problem is that widgets shows masks as available in the drop down list even if they are of the wrong size. Another is if there are two masks available, (maybe it happens with more than two), whichever one is NOT selected is duplicated so ...

Den, I've started to experiment with an open mask image. Of course I've had to develop the RAW file before I could create the mask so my starting point for the workflow is a TIFF (already straightened and cropped). In brief, yes, one can use the prepared mask at each break point. However there are i...

Den, Thanks for another highly instructive tutorial. I was impressed by the subtlety of your workflow though, unfortunately, my eyes are no longer sharp enough to fully appreciate the finer nuances of some of the steps. As best as I can tell your workflow worked well on my Panasonic GH2 rw2 files. T...

Maciej, I'm always looking for the easiest way and have used two alternative to PWP for image alignment. I've done a fair bit of focus stacking using the rather wonderful, and free, CombineZP. The first step in the focus stacking process is image alignment and it is possible to export aligned images...