Dominic Deacon
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Colour profiles do my head in. I don’t really understand them so take with a grain of salt but I’ve just finished sorting out an issue where my images look fine on all screen except for Android phones. Insane and took about 3 days to sort and along the way this is what I picked up: Basically if your images are strictly for the web then just use sRGB. Actually, for your sanity’s sake, just use sRGB for everything unless you have a client/printer who has a specific request for a profile.
[Kristoffer Jeberg] “My cameras assign sRGB to the images by default.
Usually your camera will have settings to shoot in Adobe RGB. It will be buried in the menus somewhere.
[Kristoffer Jeberg] I normally edited and saved my family photos etc. with sRGB. I know Adobe RGB 1998 has a larger gamut, but I guess there is no meaning in using that when my camera applies sRGB?”
I’m no expert but I’m not sure that’s necessarily true. But as above usually just use sRGB anyway.
[Kristoffer Jeberg] “Another thing, I noticed that if I open my images and change the color profile from sRGB to Adobe RGB 1998, the image looks very red in colors. On the other hand, if I use sRGB, the image looks almost exactly as if I didn’t assign a color profile, and also looks well on other computer screens. Then why use Adobe RGB, it has a larger gamut but doesn’t look right at all? Is that for printing presses?”
There will be a shift in the colours as you shift profiles. If you shoot in sRGB then it will look the same on your screen as the back of your camera if you edit in sRGB. And vice versa with adobeRGB. Be aware that if you’re editing in photoshop that Camera RAW has it’s own profile settings that are independent of what you edit with in the main interface. This can be a big gotcha and is what screwed me over with the Android issue I mentioned above.
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Your specs as far as you’ve outlined them sound fine. Obviously more is always better but what you have sounds like enough for a smooth edit unless you are creating unusually big projects.
I doubt RAM would be the bottleneck unless it’s slowing down as you go. 8GB should be ample to be running a lot of layers before the RAM fills up and you start seeing slow down. You can check if you’re RAMs full while your working quite easily. A quick google will show you how if you don’t already know how to do this.
Definitely no expert on this sort of thing but I wouldn’t be surprised if the issue is not hardware related at all.
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It’s hard to find hard facts about what’s most important so this is just my observations about what seems to work. First I would have thought a 2 year old dell i5 would still be solid. If it’s a laptop I suppose it’s a dual core rather than a quad. I think for photoshop you really need a quad which is expensive in a laptop. Very doable for a decent price on a desktop though.
I wouldn’t worry about a graphics card. I didn’t notice a huge difference when I dropped a gtx970 into my system over the integrated graphics on the processor. Photoshop uses a lot of RAM. 16gbs is probably a good amount. I get by with it anyway.
I would think you could put together a desktop with a new i7, a decent SSD and 16gb of ddr4 RAM for under a grand and that should hold you for a good long while.
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[Andrew Kimery] “you’ll certainly run into those that vehemently prefer PCs (or as they are known in gaming circles, The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race ;)).”
That’s more refering to their preference of a desktop over a console. There’s a difference between those guys and the dedicated Mac users though in that the “PC Master Race” tend to really know their computers. They’re usually rabid about building their own kit and know their machines back to front so their preference for a PC is an educated choice. The same can not generally be said of the dedicated Mac user. Macs are just better and it begins and ends there. I was having to use a mac the other day and I enquired of it’s dedicated Mac only owner how much free storage it had before I dumped a load of files on it and got the reply “I don’t know, I bought the most expensive one”.***
Obviously there are a lot of savvy folks here who needs Macs because of the maccentric software they run but that’s a small part of the Apple business. The cult of mac that Andy’s refering to is a different beast altogether and they’re everywhere and they are spending a fortune on hardware they don’t understand or need and could save thousands on a better machine if they put the marketing to one side. I find it a fascinating trend myself and marketing guruswill no doubt be studying it still hundreds of years down the line.
***Worryingly it was an i3 but she was convinced she had bought the most expensive Mac available. Ever since I’ve been haunted by the possibility that she dropped $5,000 on a Mac and they sent her the wrong one and she never knew…
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Wow, you’ve set yourself an absolute nightmare task. I spend most of my day cutting people from backdrops at the moment but I can’t close on that (certainly can’t do it at that resolution). The hair is almost every shade of grey on a backdrop that is likewise moves right through the grey spectrum. Not many would be able too do it.
Certainly I would think the solution won’t be one method of masking. I imagine you are going to have to build up layers where different parts of the hair are visible and then composite. Honestly If I had something complicated I’d just mask it all out and paint the hair in by hand.
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Looking forward to someone proving me wrong here but I don’t this is possible. You can flip the cloned endcap layer back and forth all day but the perspective it’s photographed at originally doesn’t make sense when you reverse it. The picture information you need is just not there.
I say this just to prompt someone to jump in and prove me wrong which will be good for you.????
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I saw a very similar comparison only they also drafted in the Dell XPS 15 as well as the MBP and the Alienware. There seems something misfiring in the Alienware as it underperformed on that one again as the Dell outclassed them both. It was also the cheapest of the bunch by a fair distance from memory.
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Pretty sure there’s no way to do it automatically. Shouldn’t be overly difficult to do it manually though. Happy to help with doing that if needed.
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[Eric Santiago] “Again cost saving depends on needs.”
It honestly takes about half an hour to an hour to put a pc together. It’s kind of fun and it’s kind of cool cause you know what’s in there and what to do if things go wrong.
[Eric Santiago] “I just refuse to spend on unproven workstations.”
What’s unproven though? The cpu will come from Intel. You’ll just be able to buy a better cpu than is in the mac. Your solid state drive can come from there too. The GPU will come from nVidia which is where you want to come from. Buy big brand names for the other parts. These are all battle tested parts. I would instead call something like the Mac pro unproven when it first came out because of it’s design.
[Eric Santiago] “If my BOXX breaks down, the warranty covers it.”
If any part of my pc fails it’s under warranty.
[Eric Santiago] “Ive yet to break a nMP.”
Other people have though. I built my most recent pc 18 months ago. Over that period it hasn’t crashed once- and it’s massively overclocked- let alone any hardware issues. No reason for there to be either. They are all quality parts. They just happened to be cheap. It was $2,000 for parts that outspec any iMac and will outpace a Macpro in most applications- though not necessarily video apps.
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I remember once someone from Adobe saying that if they had $10 for everytime their programs were stolen they’d be the richest company in the world. I remember thinking then ‘well, why not sell it for $10?’ Nobody would steal it then. It would just come packaged with every single PC sold anywhere. Obviously there’s a major flaw in my thinking somewhere…
I think the difference between making people pay a large amount for AE and premiere and Photoshop is that there’s an awful lot of people using photoshop as a hobby or making very minimal amounts of money with it. I think someone else like Affinity would own the space pretty quickly if Adobe started demanding $50 a month for it. On the other hand pros using AE are almost always charging good money for their services. There’s a lot of competition for those jobs but not like there is for photography.
Personally I’d love the full package but at the moment I’m getting by with the photography programs. But if Project Felix turns out to be as useful as I’m hoping it is that could certainly change fast.