Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photoshop is the great image cruncher with a half assed DB tacked on to act as a digital contact sheet. Lightroom is a great DB digital contact sheet with a half assed image cruncher tacked on. They are Apples and Oranges as the old LUG used to say. Or Apples and Pears as the French say better. The only mystery to me is the timing on the thing. I like most photographers and serious photo enthusiasts I know who went digital without waiting too long got Photoshop when they got their first digital camera. If not before. Actually many had Photoshop way before they even had their digital first camera. It was not a super easy program to learn but the weeks turn into months and before you know It you've got it at least so its doing what you need it to do for you. But next month you'd be better. By the way its a long way from Photoshop to Elements but most people in the 80's and 90's just got a copy of the real big boy Photoshop from a friend. Every kid had a copy. It was more popular than pin ball games or the jungle Jim. When you'd meet up with your photographer friends or talk to them you'd talk about the latest trick you'd learned on Photoshop. And how your early Epson prints were looking which paper you were using which setting. No So all of a sudden you supposedly don't need it. I can tell you I am very familiar with what ACR can do and its a start off point on image crouching. Not an end to itself. What you have learned on Photoshop this week? Every time I've put Photoshop aside and gotten distracted by other programs I've certainly had to pick it up again and make up for lost time. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:01:31 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom > > On thing not mentioned: Lightroom is entirely non-destructive to your > images. > Everything it does is parametric - that is the changes are done on the fly. > This is seriously neat and means that your original file is ALWAYS there > to be > edited in its original state. > > Photoshop doesn't do that unless you convert to smart filters. > > It's the creation of masks on the fly that is amazing inside Lightroom. I > have > a bit of an inkling on how it does it, but I sure admire the engineers who > implemented those features. > > There are tasks that only Photoshop can do. If you need layers and > compositing > then Lightroom isn't it - although you can do much before you get to the > point > where you need those. > > I'm making these points, not to convince Mark that he's wrong, but simply > to > bring out a fundamental and profound difference between the two software > environments. > > Adam > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> http://mansurovs.com/photoshop-vs-lightroom >> Here is a comparison. >> There are hundreds of others you could find in a minute. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information