Your experience mirrors mine mostly, although I've been using the v4.1 beta on both my PowerBook G4 laptop and Power Mac G5 production machines. It's a little pokey on the PowerBook ... but quite fast on the G5 system. I have processed about five hundred photos with it now, and printed at least 200 (mostly to 5x7 proofs but a few to full 13x19"). My Lightroom library now has over 28,000 image files imported.
> No shadows/highlight control, although "Fill Light" and "Recovery" > work well > and are nearly equivalent. I think they do better than shadows/highlight, personally. > I think I've decided on a new workflow: previously, because of the > size of > PSD or TIFF files, I had been saving completed images as large > JPEGs, while > storing the original PEF file on CD. I think now I will change to > saving > the completed image as a DNG file, which will allow me to carry out > further > editing if needed without any degradation caused by additional > manipulation > of a JPG file, while still keeping the PEF storage going. I will > then only > need to create JPEGs if I want to have an image available on the > web, or for > sending to family, etc, who may not be able to use anything else. My workflow is still in progress ... I've been unwilling to invest too much into it until I see how changes to the Shoots and Collections sections in the beta differ in the 1.0 release. But one thing I do is that when I complete a set, for reasons of being able to archive, retrieve and print on demand, I export them out to a directory as full [EMAIL PROTECTED], ProPhoto RGB Photoshop files. The export directory has the same name as the Collection that I completed the sort in. That way I have the virtual edits managed by the Lightroom library in the environment, but I have fully rendered, standalone Photoshop files with all edits applied external to Lightroom's management as well. Yes, I've got the v1.0 release already on order... :-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
