I subscribe to the notion that if I need to understand a software product, a camera or anything else complex, reading the literature available and then working with the product is the right way to go.
Lightroom is an image editing tool designed specifically for photographic purposes. Photoshop's history is much broader spectrum than that and, as a result, it has many many features that are not relevant to photographic endeavors at all, or relevant to only a very limited set of uses in photography. That makes it more difficult to learn and more complex to use. Lightroom's design is intended to work with you doing the kinds of things that a photographer needs to do ... import exposure files from cameras, organize them, rank them, render them, then output them for higher level editing, print and web presentation. The best way to understand for me was to read the Adobe pages, watch their videos, and then go to the tutorial videos I marked ** below. Adobe pages http://labs.adobe.com http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ Video tutorials, reviews, other info: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/lightroom1.shtml http://pictureflow.fileburst.com/_Tutorials/Lightroom_4/01/index.html ** http://www.goingdigital.co.uk/pages/adobelightroomcourses.htm http://www.photoshopsupport.com/lightroom/tutorials.html http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom/index.html http://www.seanmcfoto.com/ lightroom/ On the other hand, if what you have is doing the job for you satisfactorily, then there's no need to switch. enjoy, Godfrey On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:51 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: > I haven't got any clue yet from all discussions why Lightroom is so > special that I should buy this. I got Elements 5 which does all > organizing of PEF and DNG files, provides 3.6 RAW conversion, and has > also all the editing tools, like clone brush and healing tool, I (seem > to) need, and is basically cheaper. What extra will Lightroom bring > me, > in other words why do I need to replace or amplify Elements by > Lightroom? > It would be useful to see somewhere a side-by-side comparison of all > properties of CS, Elements and Lightroom. > > Henk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Mike Hamilton >> Sent: 29 January, 2007 3:45 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 sale and shipping date >> announcement >> >> >> Hey, they've now included a clone tool and healing brush! Very nice. >> >> Mike >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
