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Photomatix Color Primaries Based On…

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve been using Photomatix quite a bit for landscapes and it is great. Lots I don’t know about it, but the worst has be handling RAW files. There is an entry “Color Primaries Based On” which http://www.hdrsoft.com/support/help_files/raws.htm explains just tells Photomatix, for RAW files, what is the color space. I gather RAW doesn’t include that [...]

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Using Raw, DxO and Photomatix together

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom

Well, as I’ve been using various programs, it is pretty clear that you have to be pretty careful about using the different programs. Some things you want to do earlier and some later. For instance, you probably want to sharpen last as this really changes the bits. Larry Gerbrandt has some recommendations on workflow that [...]

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DVD Backup

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Movies

Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these [...]

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