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Post by john101477 on Sept 28, 2009 12:00:24 GMT -5
hey everyone, as some know I process through CS4 but I have no clue what Lightroom does. the way I understand it Lightroom is a great addition to CS. my question is how, why does it make it easier to process images, will it really help me in my work? etc.
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OrcaBob
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 28, 2009 13:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by Steve (FloppyDog) on Oct 4, 2009 9:24:24 GMT -5
I tried the 30-day trial version once, and it pretty much just sat there for 30 days unused. The interface is much different than using something like bridge, and it's hard to get used to using a program with limited editing capabilities. Granted, it does have a lot of different plug-ins available, but some common tasks like resizing is something of a pain. I could see how a working professional could really use the batch processing, like Bob said. Personally, I usually don't shoot more than a few dozen images at a time so it really isn't a "must have".
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Post by musicman5 on Oct 13, 2009 7:07:50 GMT -5
When I shoot an event I'll have from 200 to 400 images process.
I orginally lucked into a free copy of Lightroom as I had been a license holder of the software that Adobe bought to base LR around. (The name escapes me.) So I have been a user from version 1 thru the current version (2.5).
I used to shoot everything in RAW so Lightroom and Bibble were my two favorite converters. (I've tried most all of the converters out there.)
These days I rarely shoot in RAW but I run most of my photos through LR to sort the images and cull the ones I do not want or need to publish, update the metadata, batch resize and to do the occasional tweak. Just yesterday I downloaded the Imagenomics plugin for portraiture and man does it do a great job. I need to shoot some portraits of a number of folks to give it a good work out. (More on that in another post I suspect.)
I have always prefered Bibble over LR for indoors images as it seems to process indoor concert images better than LR.
But I use LR for probably 80% of my images. To me the workflow of LR is very simple and easy to use. But I have been using it a long time now.
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