Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think, as I reflect, that it's also my use of both laptop and desktop system and the hassle of keeping two sets of libraries in synch. Not a problem with Bridge but Lightroom isn't transparent for it. Now it might be a problem with my own work-flow and my understanding, but I automatically synch my laptop with my desktop system every time they can reach each other. It just happens. If I make edits on my laptop they get moved up to the system in the studio. (Not the other way around, though, I never ever do more than first-pass editing on my laptop.) The synch software is sophisticated, I like it and (finally) really understand it. On the studio system I move things between primary and long-term storage the same way. I guess I don't have trouble finding images. The way I store files does that for me. If I were shooting hundreds of images every day I'd have a problem, I know, but I don't. I just haven't been willing to pay the price to fully adopt Lightroom. It's the modal thing again, I think. It just rubs me the wrong way. And so far I don't see anything that Lightroom does that I cannot do in Photoshop with more control. Probably my failure, again, with not being totally familiar with the software. I want to sharpen when I want to sharpen and I want to understand the sharpening tools (for example.) Anyway, for this guy it's just not the tool for me. And, strangely, I don't find Bridge to be particularly slow. A matter of numbers, I suspect. Adam On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:07 PM, <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote: > Adam, you do surprise me. I'd have thought you would be a lightroom sort > of guy. I too would have liked to have used Aperture, but they did not > support the Leica Raw when I started, so it was a no brainer. Bridge to me > is like a "fancy" desktop, and always slower. Keywording takes time, but > in my experience 5 minutes of keywording saves 5 hours of searching. > > Hmm, I tend to have LR, PS, Bridge and Booksmart or ID open at the same > time in different panels, each with its strength. > > Cheers > > Alastair > > > >> I have Lightroom, ?Aperture, and Photoshop/Bridge. Of these I find >> myself working within Photoshop/Bridge much more often than the other >> two. Aperture has dropped off the playing field even though its human >> interface blows Lightroom away. I utterly despise Lightroom's modal >> nature. It's like they didn't learn ANYTHING over the past decade. >> But, it's Adobe and the number of horrid GUI sins they have committed >> are so numerous as to frighten small children. Aperture got that part >> right, and they did a great job of keywording. But the reality is that >> I I seldom keyword. I'm not like Tina who can sit at the computer and >> spend lots of time labeling. It's almost foreign to my head. I >> understand Photoshop and finally can be quite productive in it so I >> don't feel the need to slide into a cousin program whose metaphors are >> cousins to Photoshop. It's like going from the USA to Australia for me >> - wrong side of the road, things work different, the language SEEMS >> the same underneath there are very real differences. But, ultimately, >> it's the utterly lame modal nature of Lightroom that drives me away. >> >> At least this is better than arguing about Macs and PC's! Or iPhones >> and Droids! Oh, wait, we haven't done that yet have we? (running for >> it now.....) >> >> Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >