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Re: Novice Seeking Advice on Color Management
In reply to Model Mike,
5 months ago
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Model Mike wrote:
Anne G. wrote:
That was my take-away as well. I'm not printing anything over 11x17 at this point so my file sizes are not massive.
Bear in mind that if you shoot in Lightroom, it's your camera's RAW files that you'll be saving. The size of your prints is not a factor.
Right now, my 3 year old laptop is handling the file sizes well. With an extnal monitor and monitor/print profiling I should be good to go for a little while. When my laptop gives up the ghost I'll have to decide whether to stick with a laptop or go to a tower. I'm finding that I take my iPad more often when travelling now rather than my laptop. I save my image editing for when I get home.
Agree with previous advice - your laptop + external monitor is a good point to start.
Don't forget to make some provision for backups. Easiest method is keep all your images on the laptop's internal drive, and alternate your backups to two external drives.
Thanks Mike! I do shoot raw but I meant that I'm not doing multiple layers in Photoshop, which would make the files much larger. Regarding backups, right now I'm using Genie Timeline to do incremental backups. Then every now and then I'll burn a bunch of DVDs for an extra level of security. I need to get a usb hub because I do have another external drive but have run out of usb ports on the old laptop.
I do need to figure out what size monitor my graphics card can handle. Unfortunately, I just have an on-board graphics card, the Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family. My laptop monitor is set to 1600 x 900 but I'm not sure how big I can go. I'm guessing 24" would be safe. Also, I just have a VGA connection so that may be a limiting factor.
Anyone out there have any suggestions?
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