Recent content by drdocmatt

Probably wide angle lens distortion from a photographer standing too close..? Could apply a fish eye distortion a little to make it less extreme.

I imagine you export the image as jpg/BMP/gif/PNG. I would be exceptionally surprised if Photoshop and gimp shared anything at all other than standard image formats.

No, there's no dehaze in "subscription free" LR at all. Or at least, the code for it was introduced in LR6.10 (ish) but no UI element was added, ever, you have to control it via presets. I doubt the code ever went into LR5 as that predates dehaze in Photoshop by some time.

You can only update 5 to 6 if you have a code to do so, regardless of whether you can obtain the installers. Adobe won't sell you one any more but you can, theoretically, buy used ones.

Yes you can. No shared catalogue though. If you accidentally open the old catalogue with the new version it inconveniently upgrades it for you ...

I looked at using synctoy to copy the LR catalogue about, but never actually went that way. Got too paranoid about overwriting a live session's DB with a scripted sync to let it run. It's a real pain windows can't handle proper database file locking semantics on a cifs share, that would always...

Why would you not put lightroom CC on both? Don't know how you'd go about sharing the catalogue though, that's never been easy.

Viewing at 100% should show everything as-is.

I've found lightroom (classic) doesn't use more than about 6GB max, so don't bust a gut about more ram if it's not cheap. Put your catalogue and caches on SSD (on a separate partition helps). I'd also recommend putting the "working set" of photos on SSD too, that makes the UI a lot more...

Just avoid anything extreme. Brushes and regional adjustment will be fine, but don't spend too much slider time on global adjustments. You'll soon see if it's bad as you'll introduce noise where once there was none..

I wouldn't. Disk is cheap. Photographers are fickle, you'll come up with a new process and decide to reprocess some stuff eventually and you'll wish you'd kept the RAWS. Might be acceptable for some pro workflows however as once the product is delivered it's done and there's no expectations...

Funny I disabled WD and so far, fingers crossed, it seems more responsive. But we will see. I've not used it as much as I have in the past.

Windows won't generally let you run multiple anti virus tools as they are mutually exclusive. Only one can register with the kernel to receive events. The other can *think* it's installed but it's really not working. That said, everyone is aware that AV is a resource hog in windows and the main...

A 4k 32" tv has the same pixel density as a 4k 32" monitor, obvs. Biggest issue is that most people want sRGB colour space for photo editing but TV is wider colour gamut than that. Assuming you calibrated your graphics card accordingly there is no difference between similarly specified TVs and...

There's little difference between TV screens and monitors these days actually. In fact the highest resolution TVs have been making higher resolution monitors common (only Apple have us retina until 4K became the norm). Both use the same tech and the same connector. The only difference is a TV...