Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark I doubt that you want to be persuaded! Lightroom is up to 5.7 by the way. I don't even remember what the first version looked like. We couldn't have more different viewpoints it seems. Skepticism lies close to paralysis ;-) As I mentioned if you do want a comparison list your current processes and I shall show you the alternatives available. On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I had the first Lightroom. > > This is the first I'd heard of image processing capabilities you can't get > in Photoshop that you can get in LightRoom. > Tell me what Lightroom can do that Photoshop can not? > Please let me count the ways! > > Is LightRoom being marketed as a more powerful image processor than > Photoshop? I don't think so because its clearly not and remains a shortcut > to not using Photoshop. > > > > > On 2/10/15 4:30 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > Mark you don't sound very familiar with Lightroom's capabilities! > > It is a better and more capable tool than Photoshop in many ways. > > Photoshop of course has developed as an enormously capable and complex > > program. It also has aspects completely irrelevant to many photographers. > > Notwithstanding the digital asset management capacity, purely as an image > > development tool, while using the identical raw processing engine, it > > provides some faster and better options than Photoshop with some > important > > advantages too. > > Try it for free (for 30 days I think) if you do want to learn what it can > > do. > > Or describe your typical steps in Ps currently starting with a new > > photoshoot set? > > > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 11 February 2015 at 07:05, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> I do think the top photogs and serious amateurs who use Lightroom not > just > >> as a starting point but as a finishing point on all their image > processing > >> are not the same people who honed all their images in Photoshop since > the > >> early 1990's. To those photogs Photoshop is not such an easy thing to > give > >> up for a contact sheet program with a bunch of image processing sliders > >> added on later. > >> > >> > >> On 2/10/15 3:41 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >>> Only for Mac currently it seems. > >>> While I do use the subscription arrangements for Photoshop and > Lightroom > >>> bundled together, Lightroom is still also available under the > traditional > >>> licensing arrangement (and of course bundled with many Leica products > >> that > >>> way). > >>> I find now that I am only using Ps as an adjunct to LR, that is from > >> within > >>> LR developing module where I need specialised tools. I would think that > >>> many photogs never use those though. > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Geoff > >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > >>> > >>> On 11 February 2015 at 06:21, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > <javascript:;>> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Wow. I will certainly try it. I've been using Photoshop since 1990, > and > >> I > >>>> absolutely love it, but I am very uneasy about their subscription > model > >> and > >>>> Photoshop CC. If Affinity actually does what I need, I will try to > >> switch. > >>>> > >>>> On 2/10/15 11:54am, Scott Gregory wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/first-real- > >>>>> alternative-photoshop-launched-and-its-free-21514137 > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> Photographer > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman