Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not so Mark. Even the first version of Lightroom had most of the photo-relevant manipulation capabilities of the then current version of Photoshop. It did have these functions organised differently, and added a cataloging system suitable for photographers, but it was by no means just a browser. Who told you that it was a browser with add-ons as an afterthought? Somebody has been really pulling the wool! cheers, Frank > On 14 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > As LightRoom was designed to be a browser which as an afterthought had some > picture "editing" as in processing: cropping etc capabilities put in as an > afterthought and then developed with later versions. > > Photoshop itself was first designed as a program to make it so you could > change a Tiff file to a Jpeg or other file formats back and forth. > When you do that the image would sometimes darken or lighten. > So they had to put controls in there to tweak that. > Hence Photoshop. It had another name at first.