Paul, > Try as I might, I can't get used to lightroom. I still prefer ACR by > a wide margin. I find the adjustments by click in lightroom to be far > too coarse. And the categories seemed to be aimed at amateurs. > Clarity and vibrance? What does that mean. In ACR, I know what > contrast, brightness, exposure and shadows mean.
you have the same contrast, shadows, etc. sliders in Lightroom as well. Clarity and vibrance are two new useful tools (also found in ACR 4.x) which add "punch" to an image either by adjusting local contrast (clarity) or colour saturation (vibrance) without going over the top. Tip: try to adjust various parameters using the live histogram (and/or other live tools) - just click in the appropriate region on the histogram and drag - it's a very easiest and quickest way to develop a picture IMHO (sadly, live histogram is not present in ACR). Lightroom still feels a bit slow to my taste occasionally (and I'm running it on a 4 core MacPro) but it's much better than public beta in that respect. Actually the only thing I'm missing is perspective correction - if that was present I'd probably do without Photoshop/Elements altogether. Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
