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Calling all Mac Nerds....
Joshua Brown, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bowling Green | KY | USA | Posted: 5:45 PM on 11.15.02 |
->> Hey guys,
I need some input. Rick Mach is stepping down as our head mac nerd. :) As a result, I have been asked to run our digital darkroom here at WKU and have been told that we have a small budget for new software.
This is the hardware set-up for now:
18 G4 towers(half quicksilver)
HP 8500N for color proofing
HP 5000 for BW proofing
Epson 1280
Epson 3000
Fuji Pictography 4000
Kodak and Nikon Film scanners
All running 9.2(for now)
Software installed (Photoshop 6, Quark 4, Illustrator 9, Dreamweaver 4, Pro Tools, Microsoft Office, Explorer, etc)
We have 10-15 digital bodies that Nikon donated (D1x, D1h,D100), and many of the students are starting to switch to digital.
So I was wondering what some of your fav software titles were. I am talking about photoshop plug-ins, scripts, programs, filters, calibration tools, network tools, multimedia, batch tools, fonts,raw converters, printer profiles.
Everything we have right now is running on OS 9.2 but when we move to our new journalism building next fall http://web1.wku.edu/~axistph/hugesize.jpg , we will be buying whatever is most current (G5's hopefully) and I understand they will have to run OS X. For now we are going to try to run at least a couple machines in OS X to make the transition.
I also want to TRY and color calibrate everything (which is probably a whole other thread) but what settings would you use for this setup. Lately we have just set as much as we could on AdobeRGB1998.
So any and all OS 9 and OS X software is good.
If you know a lot about this stuff, I would love to give you a call. Thanks |
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John-Marshall Mantel, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 6:17 PM on 11.15.02 |
| ->> Photo Mechanic (www.camerabits.com) is a good editing/captioning program which integrates well with Photoshop. |
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Jeff Gabbard, Photographer
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Connersville | IN | USA | Posted: 1:42 PM on 11.16.02 |
->> Josh,
I have been a Mac Nerd since the beige box in 1986...(were you born then?)... anyway, feel free to give me a call at the studio and I'll go through some ideas with you. Along with PhotoMechanic, I would highly recommend iView Media Pro. It works about the same as PhotoMechanic, but each has its own quirks. If I could only combine the two....
I'd be glad to help!
(BTW, I may be coming to Western on 11/23 to shoot the women's basketball game if you'd like to get together and discuss things...) |
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Mike O'Bryon, Photographer
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Ft. Lauderdale | FL | USA | Posted: 3:33 PM on 11.16.02 |
->> I would agree on PhotoMechanic and iView. Depending on your skills with unsharp masking...I'd also suggest looking at Quantum Mechanic Pro (from CameraBits, the makers of PhotoMechanic). It's a pretty good unsharpening tool.
As much as I loved PhotoMechanic PRO when I shot with a D2000 (PMP would process the raw TIFF files from the D2000)...without the ability to process the RAW Canon files...it's lost some value. I know that's not CameraBits fault...but it's a reality. Sill for batch renumbering and captioning it's pretty great.
There are a TON of plugins out there...some VERY expensive and I've discovered that most of what the high priced plugins do can be done with the tools in PhotoShop and most can also be automated with PhotoShop actions. |
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Sang-Hyuck Park, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bowling Green | KY | USA | Posted: 3:18 PM on 11.17.02 |
->> Josh!
First of all, congratulations on the new position!
As stated above, PhotoMechanic is "a must" for us now. It's one of the most indispensable tools for digital shooters.
See you in the lab! |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Maryville | MO | USA | Posted: 3:56 PM on 11.17.02 |
| ->> If you purchase Photo Mechanic, the first thing you MUST do is go to the options/preferences panel and click the box which sends deleted photos to the trash. If you do not click this, they can only be recovered with Norton Unerase or a photo recovery program. As soon as you mistakenly erase something, you have to quit working on your computer or it may overwrite the files. Camera Bits designed the program based on the asssumption photographers back up the photos first. That's not the case and why they didn't error on the side of safety, we may never know. This is an irresponsible design on their part, but you can compensate by making sure that preference is turned on. |
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Kevin M. Cox, Student/Intern, Photo Editor
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San Marcos | TX | US | Posted: 4:06 AM on 11.21.02 |
| ->> Good advice Darren. I only made that mistake once... |
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