Proposed Changes Photoshop/Darkroom/Film Forum

Proposed Changes Photoshop/Darkroom/Film Forum

  • Leave Forum As Is, without sub-forums

    Votes: 18 13.5%

  • Split off 5 sub-forums, names yet to be decided

    Votes: 31 23.3%

  • 5 is too many, Split off into 3 sub-forums

    Votes: 70 52.6%

  • Some other Photoshop forum solution

    Votes: 14 10.5%
  • Total voters
    133
I think in addition to making the wet darkroom/digital darkroom split, make the search function more robust.
 
bsdunek said:
I would suggest three - 1. Film and developing, 2. Darkroom and printing, 3. Scanning, Photoshop & printing.
IMHO! 😎
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Yeah, that. 5 is too many, IMHO.
 
I'm leaning towards five

I'm leaning towards five

as of right now, this thread has been viewed 488 times
but only 74 have bothered to vote

leading me to suspect the big majority just don't care one way or the other.

I am looking towards the long term effect on the site.

I don't want to add more sub forums down the road, and then end up with the same sitiatuion as now with hard to find threads lumped together in a single category.

As the posts run over 50,000 there will eventually be complaints about "ONLY" five sub forums.

And then there is the reality that whatever is done,
or not done,
someone somewhere will not like it.

Stephen
 
I think too many sub-forums is a mistake. I'd vote for two, as suggested by a few others above. Five is simply too many IMO.

Ian
 
Now 3 Subforums of Photoshop Darkroom Film

Now 3 Subforums of Photoshop Darkroom Film

There are now 3 subforums to the existing Photoshop-Darkroom-Film forum, without deleting or moving any of the existing 20,000+ posts.

The Subforums are

1) Film/Developing/Scanning

2) Analog DarkRoom / Printing

3) Digital LightRoom / Printing

We will see how this works for awhile. There is some overlap, but nothing like before.

I am looking into a better search option.


Stephen
 
Well, this would help. the categories that make sense would be as suggested in OP.

1) Film (talk about film and exposure)
2) Wet Darkroom (Developing only, Tips and Tricks, Color / BW)
3) Scanning (about how films and prints scan and their differences and experiences)
4) Software (Paint Shop Pro, PhotoShop, Elements, For Tips and tricks)
5) D-Printing. (Laser Printing, Ink-jet Printing, D-Offset, D-Laser on Photo Paper)

Sound like a well rounded out division.
 
I'd go for

Digital Darkroom
Traditional Darkroom
Film/Processing

That's it. All the post processing with traditional methods goes in Trad, all the photoshop goes in Digi, and all
the film and processing queries go in film. In fact, processing film can go in trad too, so film is left for emulsion-based queries
 
I prefer analog and digital but the three you are trying is fine. But how about alphabetizing the list of forums?
 
What about those of us that do analog darkroom and lightroom printing?

I'm fine that they're sub-forums and not additional forums. But wow this is getting complicated. I use the "new posts" feature exclusively so it's not a big problem, but one of the things that I feel really kills Nikonians.org is that there are so many forums yet not quite enough users to actually keep all those forums going at full steam.

allan
 
kaiyen said:
What about those of us that do analog darkroom and lightroom printing?

I'm fine that they're sub-forums and not additional forums. But wow this is getting complicated. I use the "new posts" feature exclusively so it's not a big problem, but one of the things that I feel really kills Nikonians.org is that there are so many forums yet not quite enough users to actually keep all those forums going at full steam.

allan
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No problem Allan, I just went tonight, (Morning your time) and rented a new shop to move all my darkroom stuff out off my house and set up properly. I will also be hiring 2 fulltime staff to keep it going with my personal projects.

Between the two of us we should be able to keep the new forums buzing, Im getting settled with gear so now most of my questions and posts will be centered around film, dark room, lightroom, and software related issues.
 
Bryan,
What do you do, anyway? Assistants? 🙂

Since I tend to reply to all darkroom posts regardless of whether they have already been answered or not, I do indeed think we can keep the forums going. But I still fear dilution of content through too many forums.

But it's not my site.
allan
 
kaiyen said:
Bryan,
What do you do, anyway? Assistants? 🙂

Since I tend to reply to all darkroom posts regardless of whether they have already been answered or not, I do indeed think we can keep the forums going. But I still fear dilution of content through too many forums.

But it's not my site.
allan
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The assistants will be photography assistants. As far as my job? I just travel around Asia taking pictures.


As far as the forum, there has been quite a shake up but Im very happy to see the direction its now headed in.
 
CameraQuest said:
as of right now, this thread has been viewed 488 times
but only 74 have bothered to vote

leading me to suspect the big majority just don't care one way or the other.

...

Stephen
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Stephen,

I believe each visit to the thread registers as 'a view' regardless of whether the member has visited previously or not, including the visit to each indivdual page within the thread. The folks who were interested and voted were probably checking back to follow the thread.

In other words, when you say that people don't really seem to care, you're saying it to the people who really care the most.
 
Since I "straddle the fence" (shoot film + digital post-production), I lean toward the two- or three-forum split. Five is micromanaging things a little too much. And, yes, there will be overlap, especially in my case.


- Barrett
 
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