Hi,
Ideas / advice please?
I gave up on Photoshop after Bridge and Camera Raw started to do almost all
I needed. I would often only fire up PS to be able to print.
I migrated to PS Elements - it has the same raw converter (alas only works
on raw, not jpeg or tiff) and you can print from the organizer module.
AND I got it for £10 with my last Dell purchase.
But as my catalog grows it's slowed down. On top of that, PSE6 doesn't work
with multi-core processors and to work with raw catalogs without crashing
one has to disable all but one core. I didn't upgrade to PSE7 yet (released
a few months back and supposedly fixed the multi-core bug) and now already
PSE8 is out - without offering much useful functionality and getting more
consumer-ish all the time. Auto-teeth-whiten anyone?
I really like Camera Raw, so I'm thinking of trying Lightroom, since most of
what I need is organizing the archive and a little editing in Camera Raw. LR
seems to concentrate on this part of post-processing, however I know its
real strength / target market is in batch processing - which I rarely need.
I see LR 3 is available in beta, free until end-April 2010. That's a
sensible period of time to evaluate - the usual 30-day trial is puny if you
only get to use it once or twice a week.
So is anyone else trying the beta or can offer advice on LR? (I know
Nathan's a fan...)
tia
jez
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