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Comment by JAK posted on Updating firmware at 03/07/2013 - 19:00
The only word I can think of is frustration! That Elements 'Dummies' link above suggests you can specify file size and quality, but it will inevitably still lead to a loss of jpeg quality, especially on the reduced size images. Same as if you had a music wav file and kept mp3-ing it several times
John K
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Photoshop Elements problem at 03/07/2013 - 18:52
Garnett wrote:
The 18-125mm is tempting but all the all-in-one lenses seem to get criticised.
I think I know what you mean but all zoom lenses are all in one. If you want something smaller, faster, lighter and not all-in-one why not look for a selection from the series of limited primes?The 18-125mm is tempting but all the all-in-one lenses seem to get criticised.
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Replacing the kit lens: what's faster with more range? at 03/07/2013 - 18:47
The Q worked well for you. I wasn't there today but hope to get there sometime soon.
Fancy meeting another fellow from down under! Looks like there was quite a disparity in the size of your photograhic kits!!
John K
Fancy meeting another fellow from down under! Looks like there was quite a disparity in the size of your photograhic kits!!
John K
Comment by JAK posted on York Railway Museum-Mallard 75 at 03/07/2013 - 18:40
I'd have thought you could specify that. Remember that each time you reload a jpeg and resave it it will loose quality. One way may be to work with all the images as bitmaps (.bmp - 8 bits should do or tiff) until you have the final version and when you have that, bulk convert them to jpegs.
John K
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Photoshop Elements problem at 03/07/2013 - 18:34
Thank you all for commenting. I take it the consensus is that there is no benefit in installing any of the software that came with the camera over and above Lightroom, Photoshop, Elements, Serif etc.
I wondered if any of them could seek out parts of a RAW file that independent software failed to reach, like (was it that) Guiness was supposed to.
John K
I wondered if any of them could seek out parts of a RAW file that independent software failed to reach, like (was it that) Guiness was supposed to.
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Pentax's Own Software at 03/07/2013 - 18:29
Can't you go bsck to the original files and let Faststone, Irfanview or Elements do the whole convert in one go, (resize + watermark) then you won't loose the quality decompressing and re-jpeging them for a third time?
Note that Irfanview can crop jpegs without loosing quality with a plug-in
John K
Note that Irfanview can crop jpegs without loosing quality with a plug-in
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Photoshop Elements problem at 03/07/2013 - 18:19
Lancer wrote:
32mb card?
Yes probably 32mb is about the minimum. Note that's megabytes not 32Gb (ie Gigabytes!) You'd be hard pressed to buy one that small now, but it doesn't have to be that small.32mb card?
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Updating firmware at 03/07/2013 - 18:13
http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
Will do everything you want, it's good and it's free!
Batch processing is simple with it too.
Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/ can also do what you want but in my opinion the batch processing option isn't so obvious as to how to use it, but it too is good and free.
If you must use Elements, I've never tried batch processing with it, but there's a page about it here: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-batch-process-multiple-files-in-pho...
Watermarks can usually be a text line or a pre-made graphic file, or both.
Hope that helps.
John K
Will do everything you want, it's good and it's free!
Batch processing is simple with it too.
Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/ can also do what you want but in my opinion the batch processing option isn't so obvious as to how to use it, but it too is good and free.
If you must use Elements, I've never tried batch processing with it, but there's a page about it here: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-batch-process-multiple-files-in-pho...
Watermarks can usually be a text line or a pre-made graphic file, or both.
Hope that helps.
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Photoshop Elements problem at 03/07/2013 - 18:06
steven9761 wrote:
John - I think what most software companies do when they offer "bespoke" packages to (in this case) Ricoh Pentax, they tend to "lock-down" parts of the program, rather than totally re-write them, hence (if you know what you're doing) you can "unlock" those parts of the file to get them to work like the full package. It may only be one or two lines of extra instruction that needs embedded within the .exe file to do that.
I'm sure that's right, but why maintain PDCU and Silkypix concurrently?John - I think what most software companies do when they offer "bespoke" packages to (in this case) Ricoh Pentax, they tend to "lock-down" parts of the program, rather than totally re-write them, hence (if you know what you're doing) you can "unlock" those parts of the file to get them to work like the full package. It may only be one or two lines of extra instruction that needs embedded within the .exe file to do that.
Gamka wrote:
I have just loaded some old *istD .PEF files into PDCU4. All fine.
That's good thanks. Again I ask, why are the Q, K-01 & K-30 are supplied with Silkypix Developer Studio instead. Does it offer something to those cameras that PDCU doesn't. I cannot believe it can do.I have just loaded some old *istD .PEF files into PDCU4. All fine.
John K
Comment by JAK posted on Pentax's Own Software at 02/07/2013 - 21:26
John K