Out with the old and in with the new was the motto this weekend at LoC. The plan was to just go look for a new PC for the office, but the local computer mega-store was running a really decent sale and I found almost all the stuff I wanted for a great price. Might as well buy it since we were already at the store, right?
Spent the rest of the weekend installing software and uninstalling all the crap they put on a new PC out of the box. I think I finally have it up and running with the bare essentials. Still need to install some FTP software and my video editing stuff. I finally got a chance to play around in Lightroom on it this afternoon and it really blows my old machine away. I’m going to get hours back from my post processing time.
The biggest problem is that my centuries old monitor calibration tool is no longer compatible and the one at the mega-store was overpriced so I’ll order that this week.
If you made it this far into this post, don’t forget there is also a week left to “Ask LoC”. Ask a camera question, a photo question…ask any question! Answers will be posted next weekend.
Hey Paul – I am adding a question for Ask LOC….can you talk about calibrating laptop monitors, what it does and why you need to do it. Trying to figure out if that will help me be more sure that what I edit will be what I get printed.