![]() SilkyPix, perhaps because they're reportedly using a whole slew of Kodak color technologies, is the fastest at working with DNG files by a country mile. PS is too much of a "Swiss Army Knife" for images to be a really effective RAW process tool.Ĭ1 wins hands down I think for "out-of-the-box" balance between quality and workflow, at least with the Leica DNG files the DMR produces. Oddly enough, Bridge and PS aren't among them, usually, which mainly has to do with ease of workflow. ![]() This is kind of a dodge as a reply, but I find I use a bunch of different RAW processors. And if Aperture grows to do what you want but Apple still doesn't offer it for Wintel boxes, remember that the current Intel-based Macs all run both Windows and Mac OS X. Apple will be at Photokina, so check their offerings then. Apple is risking offending Adobe by offering competition and users' initial reactions vary. However, the Windows version of Lightroom apparently still lags the Mac version so far, so you'll still need to wait a bit. If not, recognize that Lightroom is designed for the photographer without all the frills of Photoshop, just as jrc said, and many of its functions are named the way we photographers expect them to be, so it should be easier to learn. Are you already comfortable in Photoshop? If so, you have the more powerful program, even if you seldom use its power. As you said, 'Curves' may come back later.) A couple of the photographers still went to Photoshop for some tweaking, but apparently most found Lightroom suitable as is.Ĭomapedrosa-At the moment, I'm not sure anyone can answer your question. I haven't tried Lightroom, so I can't speak to the changes Reichmann has a video intro available that may go into that. (More info available in the Podcasts and notes from the trip. JC-In the Adobe Iceland tour, some of the photographers had a hard time getting over the loss of 'Curves,' but they seemed all gradually convinced by the new function Adobe is using to replace the function. ![]() Anyway, if I were you, I'd download it, play with it, and then see if it's missing anything you need to pay $700 for. I think it's great, although it has a few holes. Versions are available for both Windows and Mac. Lightroom can be downloaded from the Adobe site for free - it's now in Beta Three. But: you can now get curves and distortion correction in the new version of Photoshop Elements (just announced yesterday, I think if you call up Digital Photography Review, it's the first item in news.) And Elements costs about $80, I believe, rather than the $700 you'd pay for a full Photoshop. There are some things missing in Lightroom that you might want, like Curves. In the latter case, you will need Photoshop. The question you've got to ask yourself is whether you're essentially a straight photographer who does most of the work with the camera, and then touches up in post-processing, or whether you are essentially a photo-illustration artist, and see the original shot(s) as just the starting point. So, Elements has the advantage over third party software to be widely compatible with the parametric and non-destructive editing of LR.I use both and I'm looking forward to dumping Photoshop. The ACR version in PSE is able to edit the most important settings the other will be taken into account but not editable. But if you tell LR to create those xmp sidecar files or to write the settings in the metadata header of jpegs, PSE will be able to understand and use that information. By default, LR does not create sidecar xmp files to store the metadata AND editing history (the sliders settings). However, Elements has a strong advantage over third party solutions when you import files in which you have 'written metadata to files'. ![]() It's possible to create keywords to keep individual collections and transform them into albums later on. You'll also lose your editing and organizing 'presets'. What will be lost will be the organization in collections (albums), your tags hierarchies, your stacks and version sets. But you can recover your metadata and tagging in other softwares (including Elements) if you 'write metadata to files' before the import. It's true that you can convert an Elements catalog database to a LR catalog one, but not the other way round. Another question to get the most of what you can recover from Lightroom to Elements: Do you shoot raw files?
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