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    Color Profiles and Presets on Apple Monitors and Laptop Screens

    Close, but it would be more accurate to say that with hardware calibrated displays that have hardware presets, the role of the ICC display profile goes from being transformational to mostly informational. From the user point of view, the user no longer has to manage the ICC display profile...
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    Color Profiles and Presets on Apple Monitors and Laptop Screens

    This stuff gets confusing very quickly, it’s true. Studying it can make one’s head hurt… Rec.2020: Yes, this is the standard color space for HDR digital cinema, definitely the standard moving forward. But, like ProPhoto RGB, you can’t buy an affordable display that can reproduce anywhere close...
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    Color Profiles and Presets on Apple Monitors and Laptop Screens

    We’re talking about the Reference Mode presets found in macOS System Settings > Displays. Reference Mode presets are available only for recent higher-end Apple displays for Macs and iPad Pros. Their settings interact with the display hardware, not through ICC profiles. If I remember correctly...
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    Color Profiles and Presets on Apple Monitors and Laptop Screens

    Similar to other workflows, it depends on what you need out of your definitive or reference version. If the photo is an all-time great, and you want to edit it in a way that takes advantage of any potential medium (print, on-screen HDR, etc.) then you edit the original in Lightroom Classic with...
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    Color Profiles and Presets on Apple Monitors and Laptop Screens

    A lot of why things are set up the way they are now has to do with the extended capabilities of today’s displays. This is how I interpret the Reference Mode presets for the Apple displays that have them: Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits). This is the default on my 14" MacBook Pro, and probably...
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    Can't find catalog after restoring from Time Machine

    Time Machine should restore all files in the backup to the same folder locations where each file originally was at the time it was backed up. When restoring the backup, if you chose to restore it to a different user account (might be likely if restoring to a new Mac), the files should end up in...
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    Wide format Photo Printers

    I tend to print in bursts: A big job, then nothing for weeks, then another big job. I’ve managed to almost completely prevent head clogs on my 7-year-old Epson 3880 by making a calendar item that reminds me to do a nozzle check, and that reminder pops up once every week. If a clog is developing...
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    Sync Chronosync is taking too long to backup my LrC files to a different computer

    In that situation I would exclude the previews and keep the others. In a network sync situation, there are two problems with the …previews.lrdata file. One is that it can be huge (many gigabytes), which takes up time on its own, especially if the Internet connection’s upload speed is not great...
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    Best monitor for photo editing : which one?

    For perspective…32" might not be "undoubtedly" better. For example, many 32" displays are 4K (3840 x 2160 px, or 8.3 megapixels), which is the same pixel width and height as many 27". In that common case, 32" is the same number of pixels (no increase in pixel dimensions) over a larger physical...
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    Best monitor for photo editing : which one?

    In general, it looks like the PA27JCV is somewhat better, partly because of the 5K vs 4K resolution, and partly because the ports are more up to date. But in terms of color specs, they seem similar. If you want more details about color accuracy, uniformity, etc., see if the models have been...
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    Best monitor for photo editing : which one?

    I’ve never owned a BenQ myself, but they’re now common among Mac and PC creative pros and should be a safe enough choice. Some background… 15-20 years ago, if you wanted the “best” display for photo editing and graphic design: Eizo ColorEdge and NEC SpectraView provided accurate, wide gamut...
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    BEST NEW APPLE M4 EQUIPMENT FOR LIGHTROOM CLASSIC UNDER BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS

    32GB has been working very well for my M1 Pro MacBook Pro, which is also my desktop computer (in closed lid mode plugged into a dock) because it runs as cool and quiet as a desktop. However, at this time it is good to aim a little higher for memory. It might be safer to go with 48GB if we...
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    iPad storage issue

    Space used is not just for visible photos, and never for images only in the cloud. The Lightroom local cache may still contain cached copies of photos/videos recently downloaded from the cloud for editing or viewing, or photos/videos recently imported and uploaded to the cloud, even files...
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    Adding Lightroom from Desktop to Laptop

    The way it works is: You can use Lightroom Classic on any macOS or Windows computer (desktop or laptop) that meets the minimum system requirements. A large number of us use Lightroom Classic on a Mac or Windows laptop. Lightroom for mobile devices doesn’t run on macOS or Windows laptops. It...
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    Photo storage setup

    If you really require high capacity at Thunderbolt speed, then you might want a multi-bay DAS enclosure with NVMe SSDs in it, because hard drives and SATA SSDs won’t come close to Thunderbolt throughput. For NVMe SSDs, some of your options for Thunderbolt enclosures at high capacity (up to 32TB...
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    Lightroom Denoise Question

    If you want to know what Adobe recommends about where Denoise should be in the edit order, the quote below is from the Denoise Demystified article written by Eric Chan, one of the lead engineers. Note what he says about applying Denoise to an image that already has edits. For more along those...
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    Stuck on magnifier glass / Pins & Tools won't show

    Oh, well it looks like I wasn’t paying attention to the fact that this is a Lightroom and not Lightroom Classic thread, sorry folks… …so Gnits, my answer about tapping the spacebar was actually about Lightroom Classic! But who knows, maybe it also helps in Lightroom?
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    Stuck on magnifier glass / Pins & Tools won't show

    When it gets stuck on the zoom tool, I’ve found that a lot of times it helps to tap the spacebar. For some reason, tapping the spacebar toggles it back to the tool it’s supposed to be. I don’t think it’s supposed to work that way, of course…
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    Develop module Denoise Time?

    There are two main factors: The number of pixels in the image, such as 24 megapixels vs 48 megapixels. More pixels takes longer. The power of the GPU. You’re using an Apple Silicon Mac where, within the same processor generation (such as M2), AI Denoise time generally scales in a linear way...
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    Develop module Workflow recommendations for editing video files

    You’re right, I’m not sure why I included step 6…but I edited my reply to correct that. The parts you want to avoid don’t really have anything to do with Lightroom Classic. You said you’d like to “avoid making new copies” for editing, but that isn’t a concern because it doesn’t happen. Because...
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    Develop module Workflow recommendations for editing video files

    Because you’re on a Mac I can suggest what I do (in Windows, I have heard that step 5 doesn’t work reliably): Organize the videos using the same Lightroom Classic tools as photos (using folders, collections, metadata). Use metadata (pick flags, stars, labels) to mark which video files I want to...
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    Library module filmstrip buttons

    In Victoria’s Lightroom Classic Missing FAQ book, this subject (Target Collection) is described on page 113. The button isn’t just an indicator, it’s also a control. As shown in the demo below, clicking it adds or removes it from the current target collection. This is a very quick way to add...
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    Library module Re-locating 4k+ photos.. won't find missing photos close by

    If the replies are slow…this looks a little more complicated than expected, so taking the time to think through it a little…
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    Anyone using Luna to connect an Intel iMac 5k screen to a MacBookPro M3 (as a second screen).

    I haven’t used Luna, but first she might want to try the built-in solution: Using AirPlay Mac-to-Mac. People are more or less familiar with using AirPlay to display their iPhone or iPad screen on a TV, or to use an iPad as a second display for a Mac, but not as many know that you can use...
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    Library module Re-locating 4k+ photos.. won't find missing photos close by

    The way I would do this is (and forgive me if you already did some of these steps): First, make sure all of the photos made it to the external SSD by comparing them. This is a manual way: In the Mac Finder, select the top level folder of the original photo location, which looks like...
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