Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/26

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Subject: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:44:43 +0100
References: <CB1E60C9.182B4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I guess then I am a low-level point-and-shooter, because I am perfectly 
happy with the adjustments I make in LR: converting from RAW, cropping, 
spotting if needed, levels, saturation, contrast, sharpening if needed, 
conversion to B&W with superb tone controls. I am not a Photoshop artist but 
a photographer. I am quite happy to restrict myself to the adjustments that 
correspond to what I used to do in the darkroom, and this is where LR 
shines. All that stuff with layers and liquify filters and I don't know what 
is totally unnecessary for me.

The only of the above mentioned activities at which Photoshop is better than 
Lightroom is spotting. For that reason, I still have PS CS 3 which I use on 
my film scans, since they invariably need a lot more spotting than digital 
images.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA



On Dec 26, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> People who do this - Use Photoshop for many of their images after getting
> them in Lightroom or whatever I have no issue with. I think that should be
> clear by now. No problem of course with Tina's or Georges workflows.
> I do have a bit of a problem with the idea that Lightroom is all you need
> after you buy your camera to digitally deal with your pix.
> Unless we are dealing with the whole thing on a pretty low level like point
> and shoot users.
> And I'd hope people with Leica sensibilities are not dealing on that low of
> a level.  3 or 4 grand for a lens why not make a commitment to the
> photograph you make with it?
> 
> -- 
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:47:01 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom
>> 
>> Hi Mark, yes, ACR has exactly the same engine as the develop module as
>> Lightroom. I think I mentioned it a few times.
>> 
>> My typical workflow is to use LR to catalog and browse the images, do most
>> of the processing work in LR, and use PS5 for certain images. I have a
>> couple killer plugin from George DeWolfe that runs under PS5 only and most
>> of my "final" images go through them.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>> 
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