Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry for the delay Frank. Lightroom is geared towards handling scads of images at a time (and we who scan, we do not scan scads of images ... we edit first). One of my major beefs ... I scan at the highest resolution I think I will ever need (= maximum resolution of the scanner). Now ... in general, I don't need that highest resolution, so in Photoshop (my dissatisfaction is not an anti-Adobe gripe, Photoshop is excellent), I: 1) Do what i would do in the darkroom, fiddle with levels (contrast) 2) resize (enlarge or what-have-you) 3) Sharpen 4) Save as jpeg In Lightroom, you have to sharpen *before* you resize. I sharpen very modestly, very, very slightly. It makes no sense to sharpen slightly on a full-resolution image and then resize. Resizing a sharpened image 1) loses the sharpening, 2) degrades the image even more than necessary. It also takes ages to work with scanned images in Lightroom. It wants to import your images into its library (that's ok), but it works a lot better with raw images of about 10 megabytes rather than scanned images that can get a lot, lot larger. My b/w scanned images (scanned as grey-scale) usually end up at around 50 megabytes. Color images (I scan at 16 bits) can get even larger (150 megabytes), but I'm not a purist. I actually feel (accent on "feel") that my digital color images are superior to my film images that I have scanned. On the other hand, I could never really master color-work in the darkroom. Over and above those issues, my experience, not my impression, but my experience, is that Lightroom will crash, bomb out on you and steal all of your CPU-time without ever giving it back (necessitating a CTRL-ALT-DELETE kill process solution). Otherwise it looks cool. It just doesn't work for me. I've messed with it for over a year now (I bought it the week it came out). Daniel --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping? > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 2:59 PM > Please explain.. it is all I will do with it...... > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > -----Original > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information