On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > [1] Does Elements have basic file management capabilities? [Better than > IPhoto?] [2] If go ahead and start using Elements, since I have it, will I be > able to access the original unedited image and the work I've done on it from > Lightroom?
Photoshop Elements doesn't have any file management at all. It's "album" companion app, only available on Windows, has some rather rudimentary (and proprietary) file management. iPhoto has completely automated file management ... it's not designed for the USER to ever touch the files themselves at all once you've brought them into iPhoto. Lightroom file management allows you to track and work with image files by reference. They're available to you in the file system where you put them, and you can screw things up any way you want by moving them in ways that don't allow Lightroom to track them. Aperture allows this same kind of file management (by reference) but will also allow you to do fully automated file management (like iPhoto) as well. In the end, you want to manage your PHOTOGRAPHS, not your files. That's what LR, Aperture and iPhoto allow you to do to a great degree, abstracting away the need to track and manipulate the files themselves. Photoshop and other pixel editors simply open, close, save, and create files. They don't manage anything. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
