Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's probable that I'm just not ready for that level of a switch at this stage of the game. I do get excited about the new advances in Photoshop with every upgrade. And its hard for me to imagine a startup app competing. Photoshop CS3 is phantasmagorical. Up into this upgrade you could not dodge a face or burn a sky so it was just not in the picture. Not a contender. But a bum. It was you Charley. Are the hundreds of Photoshop worship sites on the internet drying up like a dead oasis with people deserting them like lemmings for Lightroom cult like extravaganzas? To me the "Lightroom" is where I cut my mats. snip my negs. Stuff my neg sheets. Spot my prints. Its not the center of my print making universe the darkroom is. And that metaphor remains for me to be Photoshop. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: leo wesson <leowesson@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:48:33 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping? > > Tina's right. I found switching to LR to be quite a steep learning curve, > sort of like switching from slr to rf. But once you learn to think > differently in a lightroom kinda way, it's pretty good, and when working > with lots of raw files, it's way better and faster than photoshop. Daniel, > if you are using the 1.0 or 2.0 beta, try the latest version, it's much > improved. > > Leo > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > >> At 02:20 AM 8/14/2008, you wrote: >> >>> On my desktop it seems to work fine, but my impression is that it is some >>> pretty flaky hyped up stuff and I don't really dare commit anything >>> important to it. >>> >>> Photoshop still works like a champ. I only use Lightroom for my digital >>> SLRs. It is definitely not to be recommended if you scan your images. >>> Most >>> of my work is scanned b/w. >>> >>> Lightroom would probably be good for K-Mart or Walmart when you want to >>> spit out scads of images without paying too much attention to any >>> particular >>> one of them. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> >> I totally disagree. The upgrade to Lightroom 2.0 is the best $99 I ever >> spent. I'm able to get better results with LR than I could with hours of >> work in PSCS3. Just follow any of the tutorials online or get Martin >> Evenings Lightroom 2.0 book. The greatest thing is that you can make as >> many non-destructive adjustments to the RAW file as you want, save them as >> virtual copies, and never touch the original files. The cataloging has >> improved so much with this upgrade that I'm switching over to LR instead >> of >> iView for cataloging my photos. I'm using it for my scanned images, too. >> You can save them as DNG files and work on them non-destructively. >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Leo Wesson > Photographer/Videographer > 817.733.9157 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information