I have been playing around with both the the new Lightroom and CS3 and I have to say that I am quite enamored with both of them.  Grated there are a couple of quirks with CS3, it is still the beta I am working with.  I wish that there were some more play in between the two however (a la Photoshop and Imageready), because there are some features that I need to use that are only in Photoshop, so I end up jumping in between the two a lot.  But Lightroom does a great job at providing the tools and a workflow for digital photography.  I’m loving these new programs.

Now to find time to go shoot more…

Market Street, San Francisco

Found on Lower Haight Street

My school, The San Francisco Art Institute

For my ongoing series of pictures at different times in the past, this was taken two years (and two days, but who’s counting?) ago today.

I have been toying with the idea of going through my digital photos, and seeing where I was a year ago. So here we are.

So after much swearing and frustration, I have finally found a Photoshop workflow that works at keeping the colors that I want across multiple browsers. This is old news to most people, but as I am new to the digital aspects of photography I was surprised at how little information is out there in regards to how to exactly how to do this. And I looked in a lot of places, online and off, and asked a lot.

So my new workflow is: Calibrated monitor (duh), work in sRGB, working with View>Proof Setup>Monitor RGB selected and at the end doing Save As… and deselecting Embed Color Profile option. I found that the Monitor RGB simulates what it will look like without a color profile later so that I can compensate for it while I am working on it, and without the color profile the different browsers treat it the same.

It’s really simple, really easy and I feel kind of dumb not knowing some of it before, but hey, we all have to learn, right? Now the problem that I have is with all of the old photos that I have, and going back and fixing them with this new found knowledge.

I’m a couple of days late in posting about the this, but I just got back from LA, and have some pictures from the trip up on my Flickr page. I had a great time down there, and miss everyone already. See you all next time!