On 02/06/2011 6:09 PM, Brian Walters wrote: If I've understood
correctly, the image adjustments are stored in the DNGs or in sidecar files with PEFs - at least that's my interpretation, summed up in Charles' comment below.
Think of what you see on the screen in Lightroom as what the program would do if you told it to do something.
I'd like to use Lightroom but I've now invested a lot of time into Studioline. The problem with moving to Lightroom now is that I'd lose the custom metadata fields that I've added to each image and which are stored in the Studioline database. It's not impossible to get those custom fields into standard IPTC fields and then import all of my past image files into Lightroom, but it wouldn't be trivial.
If you think you like Lightroom better, then the time to switch is sooner, rather than later, simply because it will take more time to make the switch afterwards. I more or less abandoned my old workflow, which was tree based, to Lightroom, which is more meta data based. I still store in a directory tree, but a lot of my searches are meta data based as well.
Studioline can process RAW images (using camera-specific parameters derived from DCRaw) and you can apply a wide range of image adjustments to those images which are then stored within the database. I'm just not sure how practical my current workflow would be for processing a large number of RAW files. That's something I have to think about further.
I find one of the strong points about Adobe is batch processing. If you have Photoshop, you can also batch process easily as well. -- William Robb -- 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.
