The blog of the Ancient Mariner: Following on from the last post

Sunday, 12 January 2014

Following on from the last post - dissatisfaction!

In this case, with software for processing images.

I had a go at re-processing some images that I'd not really been happy with, but using DigiKam instead of Lightroom/Photodirector, and it's really hard to go back. The level of control available and the way in which the raw image is handled when imported into those 2 packages is just so good, it's really hard to use a more conventional package without HSL control for individual colour channels and sliders for different parts of the basic curve. At the same time DigiKam's sharpening controls are much better than sharpening in either LR or PD, and resizing/cropping and then sharpening the final product given much better results for web work.

Looks like multiple image processing packages are going to be the way to go.

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Why not?

Some years ago I wrote about things relating to church I thought were important then and probably still do to an extent. So many of us want to make sure stuff is right, trying to differentiate ourselves, yet also often miss the more important stuff, the bigger picture.

I watch various people doing church in different ways and wonder how much God is concerned about our 'important' bits of theology or stances we take. The church stream I was once so pleased to be part of is starting to look like every other church to me, so maybe it's time I had a little humility instead of pride at being different.