[Leica] A question on LR v PS

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

I'm taking a workshop for 3 days beginning April 9th with Charlie Cramer ( 
http://charlescramer.com/index.html ). I, like many on this list, have found 
LR much easier to use for cataloguing/grouping, good photo tools (gradients, 
dodge/burn, color correction, web export, etc.) and it has been my primary 
tool for photography.

Charlie has provided a workbook for "homework" prior to the workshop to 
ensure the participants are at about the same level. I've been using his PS 
techniques (lots of adjustment layers so far) to print for an upcoming show. 

Bottom line, I find I can do things in PS that I could never do in LR. 
Better local control, highlight/shadow adjustments, minor contrast 
adjustments; just a whole lot more control.

So I'm pretty impressed with PS. Very much looking forward to the class as I 
can't imaging having even more control.

Charlie gives a few workshops every year and, from what I've learned so far, 
very much worthwhile.

Anyway, I'm liking both!
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sun, March 21, 2010 6:42:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] A question on LR v PS

I agree with Henning.  I love LR and use it to process all of my photos.  It
is for editing, organizing, and basic corrections.  LR can export your
photos anywhere to archive files, websites, print, e-mail.  You don't ever
have to go into PS unless you are doing major corrections or creative
artwork.  I have both and use both, but I use LR much more than PS.  I like
Martin Evening's book on LR.

Tina

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
archiphoto.com>wrote:

>
>>
> Boy, have you opened a can of worms!  :-)
>
> LR and PS use the same basic engine, ie, Adobe Camera Raw to process raw
> files, but they have a completely different interface and audience.
>
> PS is for people (and their images) who want to work on one image at a
> time, and do lots of things to it.
>
> LR is for people who shoot a lot of photos, want to organize them into
> topics, groups, etc and want to quickly sort through them, pick the good
> ones and batcvh process them in a more 'photographer' intuitive way. Almost
> always LR is better for photographers and PS is more for graphic designers,
> or for final finishes on a special photograph that LR doesn't have all the
> tools for. In that sense PS augments LR, but in LR you can process 50 
> photos
> for most parameters in the time that you can do 1 photo in PS, and you have
> a good database as well.
>
> A very good tutorial for LR is Michael Reichmann's video tutorials from
> luminous-landscape.com, but you have to put up with MR's sense of humour.
> Might take some getting used to. There are a lot of decent books, but they
> are a bit slower going and more for intensive studying.
>
> --
>
>   *            Henning J. Wulff
>  /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>  /###\   mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com
>  |[ ]|    http://www.archiphoto.com
>
>
>
-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com

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