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I know this will sound wierd to a lot of you but I do not feel that digital has really lived up to its full potential. So this is my objective. If I am going to make the move from film to digital this is what I need to be able to do every time, all the time.
1. Capture the image with my digital SLR.
2. The image is saved to the memory card as a black & white JPEG and as a RAW file.
3. I remove the memory card and insert it into the computer. (Obviously I can do everything up to this point already. From step 4 on is where things get dicey for me.)
4. When the memory card is inserted the computer recognizes it and opens my software program.
5. The software program automatically downloads the images to a folder on the hard drive based on a pre-set naming methodology.
6. The RAW images are automatically converted to color TIFF images using the capture info from the camera found in the EXIF file and saved to the same file.
7. The converted color TIFF's and the B&W JPEGS are e-mailed to Wal-Mart, Snapfish, MPIX, or who-ever for printing on 4x6.
8. The prints are paid for automatically.
9. The prints are mailed to me via USPS.
Is this workflow possible? Has anyone out there done anything remotely like this? I am not a computer wizard but I am able to find my way around a keyboard if I have to. I don't mind setting up batch routines or things of that nature as long as it is done once, not many times.
If it helps, I am using a Windows PC running Windows 7. I use Photoshop Elements 8. I am using a Pentax K7 so I also have the Pentax software as well. I am willing to work with whatever will work but I really would prefer not having to spend a lot of money buying additonal software unless I absolutely have to.
I do realize that there is much more to digital imaging than this. I do not mind working in Photoshop or any other program to manipulate the occasional image that I want to enlarge and print differently. But I do not feel I have to manipulate each and every image individually just to see them in the standard 4x6 prints that I can get from a plain old roll of Fuji Superia 100.
Thanks.
1. Capture the image with my digital SLR.
2. The image is saved to the memory card as a black & white JPEG and as a RAW file.
3. I remove the memory card and insert it into the computer. (Obviously I can do everything up to this point already. From step 4 on is where things get dicey for me.)
4. When the memory card is inserted the computer recognizes it and opens my software program.
5. The software program automatically downloads the images to a folder on the hard drive based on a pre-set naming methodology.
6. The RAW images are automatically converted to color TIFF images using the capture info from the camera found in the EXIF file and saved to the same file.
7. The converted color TIFF's and the B&W JPEGS are e-mailed to Wal-Mart, Snapfish, MPIX, or who-ever for printing on 4x6.
8. The prints are paid for automatically.
9. The prints are mailed to me via USPS.
Is this workflow possible? Has anyone out there done anything remotely like this? I am not a computer wizard but I am able to find my way around a keyboard if I have to. I don't mind setting up batch routines or things of that nature as long as it is done once, not many times.
If it helps, I am using a Windows PC running Windows 7. I use Photoshop Elements 8. I am using a Pentax K7 so I also have the Pentax software as well. I am willing to work with whatever will work but I really would prefer not having to spend a lot of money buying additonal software unless I absolutely have to.
I do realize that there is much more to digital imaging than this. I do not mind working in Photoshop or any other program to manipulate the occasional image that I want to enlarge and print differently. But I do not feel I have to manipulate each and every image individually just to see them in the standard 4x6 prints that I can get from a plain old roll of Fuji Superia 100.
Thanks.