On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
While talking with Marco last night at Godfrey's show (VERY nicely
done,
BTW - and Godders is a fine host), he mentioned that he was playing
around
with a Beta version of Adobe Lightroom. The program is not yet
available
for Windows, and I'm wondering if any other Mac users have been
using it,
and what comments you may have. From all I've read, it seems that
it might
be a very fine adjunct to Photoshop, or maybe even a replacement
for it for
photographers. Any thoughts?
Thanks Shel. It was a fun evening for sure!
I've been using Lightroom only lightly so far as I've had a lot of
work to get out. It's risky to depend upon a beta quality application
when you have to get the work done!
That said, it looks to be a good melding of the right features of
Bridge and Camera Raw, with extensions giving it some more Data
Access Management oomph. That is, it provides good ways to sort and
manage sessions, develop collections, and set up RAW processing. It
does NOT replace Photoshop for editing the RAW converted image. It
does include some very good looking B&W conversion routines built
in ... I might experiment with them.
The workflow is quite different from what I've developed with Bridge/
Camera Raw/Photoshop integration so it will take a bit to work out
the best way to get things done, and whether it is truly the right
direction to go in for me.
Godfrey
