I've just installed my free copy of Lightroom. My normal workflow involves Raw Converter, Adobe Bridge, ACR and Photoshop CS2. I organise all of my pics through Adobe Bridge and launch ACR and CS2 from there. That works well for me.
Being offered something for free, I naturally checked it out. Now I've got to say the interface is not very user friendly. It tells me that I have to import a library of photos....why the hell can't I just open and work on photos I have saved already?! Fine I think, I'll import some photos and have a play. I try to set up auto import to import all of my recent photos. Nope, I'm told the folder can't be used. It appears that Lightroom will not allow me to use external hard drives that are connected by USB. WTF? I doubt too many photographers store all their images on their internal hard drive. I'm sure as hell not going to start trying to cram my 400 or so Gb of image files onto my 60Gb laptop drive! Anyway, I put that issue aside and managed to import a folder manually from my external drive. I tried developing a RAW file. It seemed to work okay. Of course, I then tried to save it as a converted file...no save option???!! It seems I have to 'export' it to CS2. Am I missing something obvious or is Lightroom an entirely to restrictive and useless application? What does it offer that the traditional Bridge-ACR-Bridge-CS2 workflow doesn't, besides frustration? Please enlighten me before I remove the programme from my computer! James -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
