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Subject: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:13:00 +0100
References: <CB1F7BA3.18321%mark@rabinergroup.com>

OK, so I guess Adobe are just bullshiitting here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/about/

And WTF is ACR? I know, it is some RAW conversion engine deep in the bowels 
of both Photoshop and Lightroom. The beauty of it all is that I don't have 
to care about it!!! All I have to worry about is whether the picture is any 
good! That is how photography should be.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Photoshop is the great image cruncher with a half assed DB tacked on to act
> as a digital contact sheet.
> Lightroom is a great DB digital contact sheet with a half assed image
> cruncher tacked on.
> They are Apples and Oranges as the old LUG used to say.
> Or Apples and Pears as the French say better.
> 
> The only mystery to me is the timing on the thing.
> I like most photographers and serious photo enthusiasts I know who went
> digital without waiting too long got Photoshop when they got their first
> digital camera. If not before. Actually many had Photoshop way before they
> even had their digital first camera.
> It was not a super easy program to learn but the weeks turn into months and
> before you know It you've got it at least so its doing what you need it to
> do for you. But next month you'd be better.
> By the way its a long way from Photoshop to Elements but most people in the
> 80's and 90's just got a copy of the real big boy Photoshop from a friend.
> Every kid had a copy. It was more popular than pin ball games or the jungle
> Jim.
> When you'd meet up with your photographer friends or talk to them you'd 
> talk
> about the latest trick you'd learned on Photoshop. And how your early Epson
> prints were looking which paper you were using which setting.
> 
> No So all of a sudden you supposedly don't need it.
> I can tell you I am very familiar with what ACR can do and its a start off
> point on image crouching. Not an end to itself.
> What you have learned on Photoshop this week?
> Every time I've put Photoshop aside and gotten distracted by other programs
> I've certainly had to pick it up again and make up for lost time.
> -- 
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
> 



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