How to create photos like "the masters", and is PhotoLab a useful tool?

EDIT !!


Hi Mike,
while I’m no IT-specialist, I looked for some ‘resources’

All of them note, not to use the [ | ], known as “pipe” or “vertical bar”, in the filename.

Hopefully explained well enough …

What happened … you named everything with this [ | ] “pipe” character, incompatible to Windows’ filename convention ( → see some time ago ), and the files were automatically saved as
“MM2_0291 2022-04-15.nef” and “MM2_0291 2022-04-15.nef.dop”

your “blank - pipe - blank” automatically got replaced by “blank”

While I could open the renamed raw-file, the dop-file was not recognized … …


Typically, I use “hyphen” and “underscore” to structure my files
( and sometimes I also use “blank”, but if ever only ‘within’ the filename )

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