I have been a fan of Lightroom since day 1. I've never been much into bridge, but I shoot everything in RAW and Lightroom seemed to be THE perfect tool for someone shooting many pictures in raw: one of the best if not the best software to organize/compare your photos, but also to retouch them, in ways that photoshop couldn't (haaaa, "vibrance"... you killed saturation for ever)... all that, in a non destructive way. You may not understand why non destructive manipulation is important, but when you take photographs for a long time, sometimes you just come back to something you did years ago and suddenly see it with an all new eye. Then, you're glad to still have your RAW shot, untouched.
Then, there was Lightroom 2. Lightroom 2 was beyond my wildest dreams: the ability to retouch a raw picture with gradients and photoshop-like brushes were a blessing. Also, the "clarity" filter is, I believe, one of the best way to make your picture sharper.
Because of that, for the past year I've used Lightroom way more than I used Photoshop, which I opened only to do some skin retouching, or heavy manipulating. This was a big mistake from me.
While Lightroom is awesome, it still lacks some key features: for example, the curve panel in Lightroom is ok, but really needs different curves for the R, G, B channels. Also, there is no layer whatsoever in Lightroom, so no blending modes, or masks, or stuff like that, and when I come to think about it, they all come very handy. Also, while I don't use it very often, the LAB mode on Photoshop is a real treasure sometimes.
For the last retouching I did with Photoshop, I used some plug-in filters, which supported 16 bit ProPhoto pictures, giving truly amazing colors. Alas, one thing I learnt the hard way: there are so few softwares that can read ProPhoto correctly. My wallpapers therefore had totally washed-out colors on my desktop (mac or windows...) and on the internet too. Turned out, if my colors were great, they didn't exist in a 8bit sRGB environment... Any attempt of good translation into RGB pretty much failed, until I found a way, using the "save for web" option, that optimized my pictures quite correctly (WAY better than just putting your picture on sRGB again on the "edit" menu...).
I am now teared apart: I obtain the best colors and retouching using 16bit ProPhoto pictures, but the colors can only be seen by me... I should learn more about printing...
Maybe some of my readers actually have no idea what I'm talking about, I am very sorry about it. I'm on holidays now, so I have time to think about that kind of stuff Talking about "that kind of stuff...
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The new website is supposed to look very clean, and focus heavily on images: not a lot of text, few pictures but each of them were cherry picked... A lot of them, also, are NOT on deviantART yet! I strongly encourage you to check them out on the website :)
You'll also find a blog, where I'll see be posting tutorials on how I created some of my pi
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I don't talk much about it here, but I've been studying cinema for three years now. Actually, some of my oldest followers may remember the "SOME ORDINARY PEOPLE" series I've done a few years back! My studies are now done, and after a good number of projects (including a feature length movie, starring Roger Moore, where I was camera operator and colorist!), I'm finally on the verge of directing a movie very dear to my heart. I present to you: Julie.
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You can see I've been busy this year because it's the first time since I've started this yearly review that I'm doing it late... Almost one month late.
I'm actually too busy being happy and working and happily working to take care of my online presence that much, even though deviantaART is actually still one of my homepages.
This year I've been working on a romantic comedy featuring Roger Moore (yes, that Roger Moore), called Incompatible, and I'm now preparing my next movie, Julie, about the journey of a transgender girl. Stay tuned, it's gonna be awesome!
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It's been a while I've been meaning to write this journal...
A few months ago, I realized I had earned enough money by selling my prints on deviantART to actually buy some! (Thank you all, by the way) But then I realized I never saw what my deviations actually render as prints. As someone who is spending a lot of time and money to make the most high quality pictures I can, it made me quite uneasy to sell prints that not only I don't have any control on, but that I've never even seen. So, I decided to use the money I earned to actually buy my OWN print
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Lightroom...is good for if i take raw shots and adjust levels and things, then go into photoshop for the effects