Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm sure it's cool. Daniel --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Is Lightroom 2.0 Really Shipping? > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 4:30 PM > At 02:20 AM 8/14/2008, you wrote: > >On my desktop it seems to work fine, but my impression > is that it is > >some pretty flaky hyped up stuff and I don't really > dare commit > >anything important to it. > > > >Photoshop still works like a champ. I only use > Lightroom for my > >digital SLRs. It is definitely not to be recommended if > you scan > >your images. Most of my work is scanned b/w. > > > >Lightroom would probably be good for K-Mart or Walmart > when you want > >to spit out scads of images without paying too much > attention to any > >particular one of them. > > > >Daniel > > I totally disagree. The upgrade to Lightroom 2.0 is the > best $99 I > ever spent. I'm able to get better results with LR > than I could with > hours of work in PSCS3. Just follow any of the tutorials > online or > get Martin Evenings Lightroom 2.0 book. The greatest thing > is that > you can make as many non-destructive adjustments to the RAW > file as > you want, save them as virtual copies, and never touch the > original > files. The cataloging has improved so much with this > upgrade that > I'm switching over to LR instead of iView for > cataloging my > photos. I'm using it for my scanned images, too. You > can save them > as DNG files and work on them non-destructively. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information