redridinghood
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Hey, guys. I am a amature photo enthusiast and I am planning to "step up" on my setup -- buy/create a workstation for photo editing -- with laptop at the heart of it. I understand that a laptop display does not render colors accurately -- I plan to use external displays. Reasonable? So before I dive in, I need advice on the overall layout of the workflow -- what catalogs/photos you keep where --- on the system or on the external drives.
So lets back up a bit. Here is what I am thinking..... These days, you can get a laptop with SSD drives, i7, tons of RAM, super graphics cards, etc. --- this is not an issue. You can also hook up a tablet to a laptop the same way you can hook it up to a desktop system. The benefit of a laptop is that, well, you can pick it up off the table and go watch a movie in a soft chair somewhere -- you dont need to be bound to your desk and chair.
So here are my questions:
1) I have read that its preferrable to have 2 monitors. I have not seen it in person, but I imagine that you would have floating palettes and tools on one screen, and the image you are working on on another display. Correct? So how do you do this with a laptop? Do you need a laptop with 2 physical display outputs -- like 2 HDMI ports? How does this work?
2) I have seen monitor calibration devices --- do you use it just once to calibrate your monitor and thats it? Or does your monitor need to be re-calibrated periodically? How often?
3) Is any monitor "calibratable"? Or just the expensive ones?
4) Can someone please share their catalog/images layout? What I mean is: how many disk drives do you have? Whats internal, whats external? Do you keep catalogs on one drive and images on another? Whats on a regular drive and whats on SSD dirve? Do you periodically archive a catalog and start a new one? Essentially, please explain what are the "pieces" involved?
Sorry, Its a lot of questions. Thank you very much
So lets back up a bit. Here is what I am thinking..... These days, you can get a laptop with SSD drives, i7, tons of RAM, super graphics cards, etc. --- this is not an issue. You can also hook up a tablet to a laptop the same way you can hook it up to a desktop system. The benefit of a laptop is that, well, you can pick it up off the table and go watch a movie in a soft chair somewhere -- you dont need to be bound to your desk and chair.
So here are my questions:
1) I have read that its preferrable to have 2 monitors. I have not seen it in person, but I imagine that you would have floating palettes and tools on one screen, and the image you are working on on another display. Correct? So how do you do this with a laptop? Do you need a laptop with 2 physical display outputs -- like 2 HDMI ports? How does this work?
2) I have seen monitor calibration devices --- do you use it just once to calibrate your monitor and thats it? Or does your monitor need to be re-calibrated periodically? How often?
3) Is any monitor "calibratable"? Or just the expensive ones?
4) Can someone please share their catalog/images layout? What I mean is: how many disk drives do you have? Whats internal, whats external? Do you keep catalogs on one drive and images on another? Whats on a regular drive and whats on SSD dirve? Do you periodically archive a catalog and start a new one? Essentially, please explain what are the "pieces" involved?
Sorry, Its a lot of questions. Thank you very much
