Comments on: Workflow Adjustments

By: psu

psu — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:01:09 +0000

I use iView just to browse the jpeg catalogs quickly. Spotlight and PM are still a bit slow for that.

For example, if you open a folder of 5000 pictures in PM it takes a minute or two for the thumbnails to load and sort. iView does not have this problem.

On the other hand, I don’t see myself picking up the upgrade to iView 3, since I don’t really use it for much other than this one catalog function.

By: Doug Alcorn

Doug Alcorn — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:27:52 +0000

This is a good writeup, thanks. With the new PM coming out, I’m interesting in tweaking my own workflow. I’m mainly using Adobe Bridge and iView MediaPro; but the hand-off between them is clumsy. Also, image ingest is poor too.

I’m curious as to why you use both PM and iVMP. Mabye it’s only necessary with the current version of PM? Seems like the new one will have better searching and Spotlight. If the images are tagged well for Spotlight, maybe iVMP won’t be necessary?

By: Stan Watt

Stan Watt — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:47:35 +0000

According to this link on the same site, the fields are part of the standard – they just don’t appear in any other program… see page 3
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_core_mapped.pdf

Also, thanks for the suggestion to try and move the tags “downstream.” It did not yield anything new but was a good test.

By: psu

psu — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:00:16 +0000

In the grand tradition of non-standard meta-data standards, it looks to me like iView has created those fields out of thin air, and is the only application that supports them without special plugins.

See the commentary here

http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html

By: Stan Watt

Stan Watt — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:24:21 +0000

Julie gave me the reference to this page and I appreciate it. I like Photo Mechanic but find it does not support all the standard IPTC tags – inlcuding the following three used to catalog in iView Media Pro – “Fixture” (event), “Location” and “Contact” (people). I realize all this info can be handled via keywords, but using the correct IPTC tags seems like a better approach. Have I missed something?

By: psu

psu — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:03:44 +0000

Photo Mechanic does not do any editing at all, but from a display point of view it is pretty good about color space. In particular, you can set it up to display otherwise untagged files with a default color space settings. This is handy for people who use stupid cameras that do not tag their JPEG files.

I don’t know if PM will display 16 bit files correctly.

By: Russ Widstrand

Russ Widstrand — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:34:57 +0000

Thanks for your review of image workflows. I am curious, how does photomechanic handle color spaces. I noticed that the Canon software that came with my 1ds m2 was significantly inferior in color space management than Photoshop. Have you tried an “unusual” difficult image and process in PM and PSD?

I am a psd browser convert. I love everything about it except for speed and its inablility to do b&w conversions within raw processing.

Btw, is PM 16 bit compliant and do you edit in 16 bit and then save as 8.

One thing I love about psd browser, is that the all raw editing is saved in a database, no matter where the file goes, hard drive or DVD. This has the characteristic of an “original” status, whenever I go back to the cr2 file in photoshop, all my changes are saved including file info data. The only exception to the saved data set is sharpening, which is best done to the .psd file.

I like the idea of having all data and adjustments in one source and generating duplicates from that source. I have not seen this in any other program.

My .02 on workflow. Your results may vary. Russ