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THIS WEEK'S TIP What about Vignetting? By Susan and Neil Silverman
There are good and bad vignettes. Bad is when the filter or lens hood of the camera is in the frame of the image and there are dark hard corners in the photo.
Good vignetting is accomplished by a photo editing program, and softly and gradually shades or darkens the edges of the image. This is very subtle and holds the viewer's eyes within the image and keeps the attention on the subject.
Oftentimes, we might suggest that this be done to an image, as it can be really a fine tuning to make an image all the stronger. It was a style often used with old portraits. A good vignette will not be detected by the viewer; but it will just be one of those finishing touches that very often makes a photo jump right out.
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Photo Q&A
1: Organizing Images I just made the plunge and purchased Lightroom. As I'm learning the tool, I'm rethinking my organization strategy. I keep both my Raw files and my JPEGs, and sometimes even the Photoshop version if I've done a lot a work on the image. So far, I've kept these in different directories, with basically the same structure. So I'll have my Raw files in RAW\2011\20110303_xxx, and I'll have the JPEGs in PRINTS\2011\20110303_xxx. But now I'm thinking about putting everything into one, and just call it IMAGES\2011\20110303_xxx.
Hopefully this makes sense. Do most of you keep your Raw files and JPEGs together? Or separately? - Pat Harry
ANSWER 1: Hi Pat,
I don't have Lightroom, but I learned a long time ago what works for me (and not necessarily for someone else). When I download my stuff (I shoot in Raw) from the card, it goes immediately into a file called Archive/year/main-place-or-subject. Then I back this up to an external drive divided the same way. Archive also contains the scans of old slides.
Then I copy the files I want to work in Photoshop to another section called Main, which I divide the same way as Archive, often with more subdivisions within the subject. So Main is PSDs, or about-to-be PSDs. To me, Archive and Main are the important ones - the equivalent of my old negatives - and I back up my work in Main as it goes along.
Finally, for the little stuff - JPEGs and TIFFs - I have a third section called Submissions (for want of a better title) and this section is divided into the destinations of the images: a BetterP hoto file, an e-mail file, etc. This section I don't fuss about too much because I can always reconstitute a JPEG or a TIFF from the PSs in my Main section.
What's most important is being able to find stuff easily years after you've filed it. And to make backups a snap. Success depends on finding what works best for the way you yourself function.
HTH! - Kay Beausoleil
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