Tag: editing

2011-02-24

My daily work in the darkroom back in high school year book class has continued to pay off in all kinds of ways…I just never quite thought of this one. Sure, it helps me understand how to work on my photos in digital post processing. And yes, the love of the negative leaves me with no choice but raw over JPG. And without a doubt, there is something in those chemicals soaking into your finger tips that makes you a better photographer…or at least a more interesting one.

However, I never would have imagined my boss would hand me her one surviving photo of her two parents, faded, cracked into a strange and very non-conformist geometric shape, taped together from a suspicious rift right between the couple, and caked with a darkening grime which had presumably become a part of the photograph. To top it off, she is going to use it on the cover of the book she just finished. Enter Long-Since-Retired Darkroom Man!

2009-03-16

You know how we all have thousands of digital photos and cannot seem to ever find the ones we want? Well, keywording (or tagging) is a great way to organize those photos so you can actually find the ones you want later.

I have been looking for software that could do this for me, and though finding software is easy, finding open source or free software was proving a bit more difficult. Of course, Adobe Lightroom is on top of this game, but I am not paying hundreds of dollars…rephrase: I cannot pay hundreds of dollars, even though it would be spectacularly convenient. Plus, I am a Linux guy, but before you tune out, the solution I found works in Windows and Mac as well.