[Leica] Lightroom or CS4 Bridge?

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

Adam, you do surprise me. I'd have thought you would be a lightroom sort
of guy. I too would have liked to have used Aperture, but they did not
support the Leica Raw when I started, so it was a no brainer. Bridge to me
is like a "fancy" desktop, and always slower. Keywording takes time, but
in my experience 5 minutes of keywording saves 5 hours of searching.

Hmm, I tend to have LR, PS, Bridge and Booksmart or ID open at the same
time in different panels, each with its strength.

Cheers

Alastair



> I have Lightroom,  Aperture, and Photoshop/Bridge. Of these I find
> myself working within Photoshop/Bridge much more often than the other
> two. Aperture has dropped off the playing field even though its human
> interface blows Lightroom away. I utterly despise Lightroom's modal
> nature. It's like they didn't learn ANYTHING over the past decade.
> But, it's Adobe and the number of horrid GUI sins they have committed
> are so numerous as to frighten small children. Aperture got that part
> right, and they did a great job of keywording. But the reality is that
> I I seldom keyword. I'm not like Tina who can sit at the computer and
> spend lots of time labeling. It's almost foreign to my head. I
> understand Photoshop and finally can be quite productive in it so I
> don't feel the need to slide into a cousin program whose metaphors are
> cousins to Photoshop. It's like going from the USA to Australia for me
> - wrong side of the road, things work different, the language SEEMS
> the same underneath there are very real differences. But, ultimately,
> it's the utterly lame modal nature of Lightroom that drives me away.
>
> At least this is better than arguing about Macs and PC's! Or iPhones
> and Droids! Oh, wait, we haven't done that yet have we? (running for
> it now.....)
>
> Adam
>
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