I may give Lightroom a try again one of these days, but I don’t have a lot of time to devote to experimentation. I pretty much work all day every day and don’t have the energy to continue at night. Most of my photography is for work and I have a lot of confidence in my PS workflow. But I use it a lot like Lightroom in that I seldom employ layers other than for perspective control or rotation. I don’t need multiple versions of an image. I generally know what I want and when I arrive at it, I’m done. If it doesn’t work, which is rare, I click back on history. I was turned off by version one of Lightroom in that familiar PhotoShop and ARC operations were given different names. Silly and vague names in some cases. I think that situation has changed somewhat. I do like the nearly infinite rendering control I get in ARC with the shadows, highlights, contrast, white and black sliders. I suspect that can be duplicated in Lightroom, although it won’t be familiar to me. But if I can keep my files in tact — about 100,000 images in chronological folders with key word ID — I could see switching. I do save every RAW, so in a sense my editing is non-destructive but not on the virtual level that Lightroom enables. That would be at least a minor advantage, IMO.
> On Dec 7, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bob W wrote: > >> I think you'd do well to buy one or two of the books about LR and spend >> a weekend working your way through them. There are really 3 major >> topics to consider and they feedback into each other to some extent: >> >> 1. What is your storage (and back-up) strategy. In my experience it's >> best to use LR to manage everything rather than mixing LR and your OS's >> capabilities >> >> 2. Understand LR's workflow and adapt it within reason to suit >> yourself, but try not to fight against it >> >> 3. How to use the various tools to achieve your ends. Think of it in >> terms of ends rather than means and you won't be so frustrated when you >> can't find things you might expect, like layers perhaps, which are a >> means to an end rather than an end in themself, and you won't waste >> your time trying to learn stuff you'll never use. > > I think that is a cracking piece of advice, which I will do. Thanks Bob. > > Malcolm > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
