Savageduck
On 2013-11-30 17:28:31 +0000, sid <sidney@sidshouse.net>said:

sid
Savageduck wrote:

Savageduck
On 2013-11-30 15:20:07 +0000, Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>said:

Tony Cooper
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:21:05 -0800, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
On 2013-11-30 02:45:26 +0000, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) said:

Floyd L. Davidson
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
[...] most importantly I have a feeling your hardline choice of OS is your real problem, and it is distracting you from paying attention to improving your photography.

...and having to think about how to maneuver around the arcane mechanics of an OS to process digital images rather than the mechanics of the style and subjects of our photography is an impediment & distraction.

sid
What "archane mechanics" do you suppose one has to maneuver inorder to process images.

Savageduck
I refer you to Floyd's response providing what can best be describes as "arcane":

To be found in: From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:30:23 -0900 Message-ID: <87bo12pqo0.fld@apaflo.com>

"Note that UFRAW is a lot more than and "interface" using DCRAW. It uses DCRAW as the basic converter engine, but has it's own processing for many other of the enhancement tools you need.

Also be aware that with Linux if you become proficient at writing shell scripts there is just no end of ways to improve productivity. The ImageMagick tools are fabulous for editing. And there are many ways a shell script can speed up your workflow. For example, I preview my images, as JPEGs, with a very customized version of XV which can sort them into various directories. The JPEG images I don't want to convert with UFRAW go into one special directory, and then a shell script moves the RAW files to the same directories where the JPEG is now at. Then I run UFRAW and it never loads a file I don't want to process. Plus when I want to run the batch on all of them, I use a script that does odd things like automatically setting wavelet noise reduction depending on the ISO it was shot at, and it determines how many CPU cores are available and proceeds to keep each CPU busy with a different process (which with as many as 12 cores can make a huge difference in how fast a few hundred RAW files can be converted to TIFF files)."

Tell me that isn't arcane.

sid
Clicking an icon is way easier with osx I take it?

Savageduck
Is that supposed to be some sort of OSX put down?

You aren't familiar with OSX, Lightroom, or Photoshop are you? I sure as Hell don't have to jump through the hoops Floyd has set out above.

I have a workflow in Lightroom & Photoshop which might come as a surprise to you, is smooth and efficient, without a thought as to the under pinnings of the OS, I am sure the same is true for those using LR & PS in the Windows environment. < https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_422.jpg > < https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_423.jpg >