March 9, 2009
How black are your blacks?
The humble Blacks slider plays an important role in allowing you to optimize the contrast of your photos as you process them in the Develop module. This movie clip is all about how much to safely clip the blacks when working with different types of images as well as how the black clipping point you set in Lightroom relates to the black clipping point of the print output process. The answer to the question ‘how black should I make my blacks’ may be easier than you think.
Note that in the final section where I compare different output profile conversions, the Black Point Compensation box must be kept checked (which is the default setting). You would also want to make sure this box is checked when making a print via the Photoshop Print dialog. And in the case of Lightroom printing, this is always enabled anyway.
Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.
I can never view any of the “movies” that Martin posts, what viewer do I need?
I have a Vista PC with flash, quicktime and the usual viewers, but when I try to see a video, the screen goes completely white (except for the headers and footers and then I see “done” at the bottom left, but nothing appears on the screen, regardless of how long I wait.
How come??
mike
The movies I create are exported in a standard Quicktime format, identical to the format used on the DVDs that come with my books. I am not particularly expert in these matters, so suggest checking to see if you have the latest quicktime player plug-in installed for your browser. I would have thought that there may be a warning message that tells you which plug-in to install.
Martin
Same problem. Cant view on Vista.
Done w/ errors Line 1. Char 1. Object Expected.
Guys, may I make a suggestion?
download VLC player from
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and download the movies from this blogg.
VLC has a wide range of codecs built in and will be able to play most common movie formats.
-Jon Rune
VLC works only if I paste in the URL http://lightroom-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/blackisblack2-low.mov in the Open Network dialog.
Just clicking the link fails.
Thanks
if you get an error like Object Expected – it means that the movie was not embedded correctly for IE. Try watching it in Firefox.