I'm not using the LR3 beta, Jez, but I have used LR since the beginning
(having been offered a good deal as a user of RawShooter - a predecessor
application bought out by Adobe).
For photo editing, I find LR is a return to traditional and familiar
terminology and techniques by comparison with PS. It's a breath of fresh
air, at last - although you wold'nt use it for pixel-level editing of
images. The cataloguing feature is what I wanted forty years ago, needed
ten years ago, and now at last have, easy, flexible, fast, and integrated
with the editor.
The image editing tools will be familiar to you from ACR, but I think the
cataloguing is likely to be significantly better than Bridge.
Don't hesitate - try it.
Piers
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From: Jez Cunningham [mailto:jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 November 2009 15:09
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] Lightroom?
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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