A new forum area

Having joined in the topics regarding sharpening etc. I have found them really useful help and advice especially for the techniques used.

What do the Pentax user team and other forum members think about having a separate area just for image post processing help etc. This could be help with any of the software that forum members use, not aimed at any particular product. I use PSE ver.6 and any help is always useful.

Not sure how to add a poll to this topic maybe a moderator can help.

I'm all for that, there are so many different programs and they can all do such amazing things that many of us need all the help we can get. If one person reads the instructions they can then tell us how to do it!

Colin I think it's working quite well it only gets a bit polluted with topics that are questionable where they should go.

You see a collection of topics that can go into the general chat like those over the new laws, I've no idea what's digital about them or does it not apply to film cameras?
And a topic about a K7 battery grip
Cokin filters
shooting styles
lens prices
Light cube
Paris Panorama
SRB-Griturn grad filters
Pentax smc DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited
2010 Events to Attend?
There was nothing I could do! He just wouldn't listen
shooting through glass
Incase anyone interested (about a location)

Far to various if you ask me

If you check out the description of the General Digital Photography Chat section, you will see you are already in the place you are suggesting.

Yes John you are right, but is this also a place to discuss filters, laws, locations, light cubes/tents, shooting styles, a Paris panorama, k7 grip, general events, lens prices & pentax DA 70mm?

I'm not so sure they should be in this thread?

Maybe not Stefan, but sometimes things do get posted in the "wrong" area. Sometimes I move the most obvious ones, such as putting images in the Your Photos section where they belong.

There's a practical limit to how many things really should be moved.

I know John and the rest of the team is doing a good job, I won't question that.
I'm trying to suggest that the general digital chat forum is too general because of another obvious place for some subjects.

For example, there is not really a place to discuss about locations and events maybe the PUF could extend the Local Groups and Meetings to a more general section that includes that?
It's never really busy in that section so there is room for that in there.
That's already some topics less in the General digital chat.

Filters are another one... I see why some place it under general digital photography but when you think about it, it's a bit out of place when people talk about Silkypix, computers, monitors, etc.
Maybe a General photography section to discuss things like; shooting stysles, laws concerning photography, filters might be an idea?
It would half the entries in the genereal digital photography chat section with some luck.

Filters could go in with lenses...

Most of the other things you mention Stefan could, IMHO, go in the General Chat forum.

Dan

Something I always thought would be a useful addition is an Equipment Database along the lines of that at Pentax Forums, in which PUFers can provide feedback on various equipment - and I guess lenses in particular. I do find that part of Pentax Forums quite useful. If a database existed here you would have the added benefit of actually knowing (virtually) many of those providing the feedback.

I think it's called another forum...

But seriously, General Chat is there, although it does normally consist of general photographic chat. After all, that's our common area of interest.

Hi all,
I see from your comments that there are lots of topics that could have differant areas.
That would not work IMHO, I know that in an ideal world we would all be "experts" and enter subject topics in a way to make it easier to search, untill we are all experts I will have to continue to search through the forum and ask the relevant questions.

Thanks all

I cant see a problem with the forum catagories as they are already, even more would just make it harder for the mods to keep everything in its place.

And lets face it, the people who are most likely to have the answers and offer help are those who probably read the forums thoroughly anyway, and its not as if that many cries for help go unanswered already.

The problem is when you try to find a topic after 2 or 3 weeks, which you know had your answer
I now simply adapt google to only search on this forum, that works quite nice if you know what you're looking for

So maybe its the search function that needs improving

Yes the search indeed needs to be improved from what I've experience so far and I'm still off opinion that the General Digital Photography chat is used to general, it's not for nothing under the chapter Digital

Maybe we should have a "bar" section where we can talk about beer, music, films and all the other things not photography related then the general chat is only for photography related stuff and it keeps the forum cleaner.