LR helps you throughout, from download to archive and print - easy to
use and you get good results - I could no longer do without it with a
catalogue of over 15000 raw files ...
Trying is believing.
Best from Metz
Philippe
Jez Cunningham wrote:
>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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