If you have a big library and you want to have access to it all it takes both time and planning to migrate to LR but thereafter you will likely be pleased that you did. The basic develop tools take a little bit of time to readjust to but once you translate the functions to terms that you are familiar with it becomes quite workable. The flexibility and range of output plugins makes automatic watermarking with multiple graphic marks possible and a range of other things that could be tedious in PS.
On 8 December 2014 at 10:25, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
