This sounds very nice, Godfrey. Of course. I can go back (Phase One) as well - I 'casue I still have the original RAW file. No snap shot option though. As long as I keep the preview files, I still have the Raw-edition - and could copy the instruction to other files. Biut I don't keep them. They'd fill up my computer really fast. Besides, I like the editing tools/ user interface in Phase One better :-) Regards
Jens Bladt Nytarkort / Greeting Card: http://www.jensbladt.dk/godtnytaar2007/lydshow.html http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Godfrey DiGiorgi Sendt: 24. februar 2007 23:39 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: Forgive my ignorance, but what use is Lightroom? On Feb 24, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > James - I have used external hard drives all the time with Adobe > Lightroom. > No problem at all! Just make sure that the harddrive is actually > available > BEFORE you start Lightroom. Phase One has the exact same issue, ... On Mac OS X it isn't necessary to have the external volume mounted before starting Lightroom. I have started Lightroom, been browsing, and then realized that I needed to edit something that was on the backup drive. Just plug it in, flip the switch, and it rechecks, comes on line. > The great advantage with software like this is Batch Conversion: > The option > to convert many images the same way (simultanoulsy). And Print. > I don't udnerstand the pint about improting to libraries either. I > guess it > is a work flow thing, not really of importance to me. The way you work with Photoshop/Bridge/Camera Raw or Phase One is very different from working with Lightroom. With them, you are browsing and manipulating image files directly from the file system. The underlying concepts in Lightroom are quite different. Lightroom incorporates a database (that's why you must "import" and "export" rather than just "open" and "close" files). Once you import a file, all edits are non-destructive: they're just a set of instructions on how to render the file retained in the Lightroom database and/or file metadata. The image file is rendered to screen, to printer, etc using those instructions. Only when you export it as a finished product or for further editing are the instructions applied and a new version of the original file created. You don't need a save function normally ... it's a database, so all edits are recorded and saved automatically. LR 1.0 includes the ability to snapshot a photo's development at various points in the processing, and you can back up to alternative renderings at any time, or go all the way back to the original data and start over, have multiple 'virtual' copies with different finish renderings. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/699 - Release Date: 02/23/2007 13:26 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/700 - Release Date: 02/24/2007 20:14 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
