Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/28

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Subject: [Leica] IMG - PAW Soccer Tournament and LR vs ACR
From: heninger at adobe.com (Wade Heninger)
Date: Mon Apr 28 16:33:41 2008

On 4/28/08 4:16 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Wade, very cool spontaneous kids' pics. That's the very best kind.

Thanks. 

> Thanks also for the ACR/Lightroom link. I've just fallen totally in lust
> with Raw (in PSCS3) and ACR so I didn't really want to read this. I knew
> that the Raw functionality was about the same, and had an idea that LR was
> very convenient for the organization side. To be fair, with ACR 4.41, I
> don't see any significant advantages with LR as far as the processing side.

None really.  Same engine.

> If you have PS you have all of the processing part for no extra investment.

The PS processing part is slower, if sometimes necessary (even with LR).  I
find that most studio work I do ends in PS anyhow - but that will change
with LR 2's adjustment brush.

> Here in Australia LR costs about 50% more in USD than in the USA (and more
> than twice a PS upgrade which I wanted anyway). That's maybe a bean counter
> thing, (smaller markets and all of that excuse).

Grumble Grumble.  I hate our pricing in this regard.

> Can you recommend any links detailing the LR organization and print
> functions especially? I am still printing entirely from PSCS3. But I'm also
> in data overload trouble already as my DNG count accelerates through 1000
> after a few weeks of having the M8.

LOL. I hear you.

I'll do some research and make a post to the blog in the next day or two.

I know that Luminous Landscape has a pretty extensive tutorial on printing,
but never watched it.
-- 
Heninger Fotographik | Blog & More  http://heninger.org
 


Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG - PAW Soccer Tournament and LR vs ACR)
In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] IMG - PAW Soccer Tournament and LR vs ACR)