On Feb 6, 2007, at 7:41 AM, David Weiss wrote: > Do you know if this subset includes sharpening, curves and levels? > Those and cropping is what I use normally.
Yes, CS/CS2 all support sharpening, curves and levels operations on full 16bit per channel files. Also layers, color space conversions, etc. I don't have PSE 4-5 so can't say about them. All operations in Lightroom are in 16bit space, to the best of my knowledge. > Okay. Let's say I edit a RAW file in Lightrooom to may satisfaction, > save it for the purposes of printing. I save it in adobe colorspace, > and in what? If then I decide to smartsharpen the image in Gimp, save > as jpeg, then print, how would this differ from smartsharpening in PS > CS2, save as jpeg and print? Normally, you would do your printing directly from Lightroom. LR manages the printing workflow, even in beta release, very very well. I've actually rendered some of my Photoshop CS2 work to [EMAIL PROTECTED], single layer, ProPhoto RGB TIFF files and imported them into LR to take advantage of LR's sophisticated printing capabilities. Lightroom's Print module allows color management by the printer or by LR with specific profile selection. For 'higher level' editing services that PS or other image editors can provide, LR v1.0 release allows you to open the file, do whatever layers/sharpening, other operations you want in your choice of image editor, then brings the resulting file back into Lightroom for printing. If you have to do a downsampling to 8bit along the way, you're going to lose a lot of data so you should have the file as nearly final as possible before going out to the external editor. How much of a difference you see in sharpening operations is much more dependent upon how many pixels you have to work with than on how deep the bit depth is. Of course, since sharpening really is rendering edge contrasts, more bits helps. ;-) > I am thinking of purchasing lightroom, and am wondering if it is worth > it to also buy PS CS2. I was going to wait to see what Gimp 2.4 > offers, > and also, I am not sure anymore that I will be doing much editing > outside of Lightroom. There's a useful discussion of how Lightroom and Photoshop use complement each other here: http://www.photoshopuser.com/?page=lightroom/faq Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
