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- Jan 14, 2023
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I'm semi-retired (U.S. Air Force for 27 years and then 23+ years as a civilian electrical engineer), live in Maine, my boyhood home state, six months of the year, and in Indiana, my wife's home, the other six months of the year. I work part time during the winter doing substation maintenance, upgrades, testing and commissioning.
I've dabbled in photography since my teenage years and presently own a Nikon D7000. I also just purchase a Lumix DC-ZX80 for my wife. I have some experience using Apple's Aperture to catalog and enhance my photos but it was years ago. When Apple stopped supporting Aperture, I went to Adobe and immediately became confused with the plethora of available programs that came with my Photographic subscription. On top of that, Adobe had a number of program name changes about the time I joined them. What a mess. It was so confusing that I put of doing any more photo work for several years. I was just taking pictures and stuffing them on any hard drive I could get my hands on. And then I found an inexpensive on-line email base Lightroom Classic course last fall. It was self paced. It cleared up a lot of the confusion regarding Adobe's naming and renaming and it helped me to understand the difference between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. I haven't finished the course yet but have accomplished enough of it that I've been able to get my 75K+ photos organized, cataloged, stored, and backed-up in three independent locations. I'm still a little confused about the other Adobe programs I'm paying for but have decided to work with Lightroom Classic only until I get it well in hand. I'd like to start using Lightroom on my phone as well but not if it's going to consume a lot of my time and confuse the heck out of me.
I am an amateur genealogist and have a number of old family photos I've had scanned and now wish to restore/improve. I've attempted this using the Develop features in Lightroom Classic but am not very good at it yet. I only recently discovered there's a problem with my present computer. It is old enough that it doesn't support the newest operating systems (I'm now running iOS 10.15), which means Adobe won't send me the latest updates to any of the programs I'm paying for. My Lightroom Classic is running at V11.5 - so I think there are things that have been added to LRc that I can't use because of the limitations of my computer. When I get a new replacement computer, I know I'll have issues transitioning my LRc stuff over and will need some help and advice from all of you. But that won't be for a few months.
I'm looking forward to my membership here and with working with all of you. Have a great day all.
I've dabbled in photography since my teenage years and presently own a Nikon D7000. I also just purchase a Lumix DC-ZX80 for my wife. I have some experience using Apple's Aperture to catalog and enhance my photos but it was years ago. When Apple stopped supporting Aperture, I went to Adobe and immediately became confused with the plethora of available programs that came with my Photographic subscription. On top of that, Adobe had a number of program name changes about the time I joined them. What a mess. It was so confusing that I put of doing any more photo work for several years. I was just taking pictures and stuffing them on any hard drive I could get my hands on. And then I found an inexpensive on-line email base Lightroom Classic course last fall. It was self paced. It cleared up a lot of the confusion regarding Adobe's naming and renaming and it helped me to understand the difference between Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. I haven't finished the course yet but have accomplished enough of it that I've been able to get my 75K+ photos organized, cataloged, stored, and backed-up in three independent locations. I'm still a little confused about the other Adobe programs I'm paying for but have decided to work with Lightroom Classic only until I get it well in hand. I'd like to start using Lightroom on my phone as well but not if it's going to consume a lot of my time and confuse the heck out of me.
I am an amateur genealogist and have a number of old family photos I've had scanned and now wish to restore/improve. I've attempted this using the Develop features in Lightroom Classic but am not very good at it yet. I only recently discovered there's a problem with my present computer. It is old enough that it doesn't support the newest operating systems (I'm now running iOS 10.15), which means Adobe won't send me the latest updates to any of the programs I'm paying for. My Lightroom Classic is running at V11.5 - so I think there are things that have been added to LRc that I can't use because of the limitations of my computer. When I get a new replacement computer, I know I'll have issues transitioning my LRc stuff over and will need some help and advice from all of you. But that won't be for a few months.
I'm looking forward to my membership here and with working with all of you. Have a great day all.