[Leica] OT lightroom (4)

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

On 5/13/2012 12:41 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> what is the best way to learn lightroom (4) for someone coming from 
> photoshop?
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> thanks,
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> Steve
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Steve,

For some reason I had a devil of a time with LR, with a PS background.   
The interface just seemed klutzy.   I also watched the Adobe.tv 
tutorials and downloaded Martin Evening's book on LR3, which is more of 
an encyclopedia than a how-to but most helpful.  The lightness slider in 
LR4 is great and can work wonders where I boned the exposure as is 
commonplace.  What I do now is look at my raw files in Bridge, save the 
survivors to a folder named by date, and then import that into the LR4 
catalog and assign keywords.  I doubt that LR will replace PS, but it 
sure is handy to be able to retrieve images by keyword and metadata, and 
do most all of the work before going to PS.

Ken