[Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom

[john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)]

Shrug, I had a darkroom for years (Kamm 10"x8" enlarger so not too small),
used PS since v2.* (still have a copy of v3.0 for Irix!) and LR since v1.*.
For what I put online I rarely have needed PS (panoramas are the only thing
off the top of my head), most of the stuff is straight JPEG export from LR
with no changes.....

john

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I decry it becuae it is an image editor  with a few nice features for image
tweaking and its here being looked at on its image tweaking capabilities.
All of a sudden after decades of any photographer I ever knew living and
dying by Photoshop our image tweaking needs are minimal and all we mainly
need is image editor. A digital contact sheet and grease pencil!
And "Lightroom" is the perfect name for it its the opposite of darkroom.

And a digital context sheet is a cool thing but once you've found the
picture you want to show people its pretty darned important to make it look
right. That's Digital darkroom. That's Photoshop.  And that's not a  minor
facet of your photography that you can just forgo as other people are doing,
John. Its the contact sheet thing which is less important. In other words
the other way around, the priorities have been switched.

By the way yy light table was in my darkroom but I had a real big darkroom.
My light table was a 4 foot light fixture turned up side down with four
florescent bulbs in it.
Most people kept their light table out of the darkroom.
You'd have a room with your mat cutter and your dry mounting press and your
spot tone stuff with brushing. It was a place to sort your prints. The
prints you made in your darkroom.
--
Mark R.
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> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:21:43 +1300
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom
> 
> I have latest versions of PS and LR, the former very rarely needs to be
used
> for what I do photographically. PS can do much more for many different
types
> of use whereas LR is dedicated to doing one thing well, why decry it so
much
> as it was developed solely for digital photography?
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> If I spend ten minutes on an image which is typical I spend eight minutes
in
> ACR and two in PS5 (Photoshop).
> The idea of not having those two minutes in PS5 is inconceivable to me.
> Its inconceivable!
> The metaphore for me is trying to develop and print your pictures on your
> light table.
> Wrong room.
> Wrong tool.
> 
> 
>