Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]genuine answers: panoramas I like the crop tool that let?s me square up photos ric > On Oct 14, 2015, at 1:10 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: > > What do you do with your pictures in Photoshop that cannot be done in > Lightroom? Genuine question. > > I have used PS since early versions, looking at 2015 CC there is little > comparison to earlier versions so why hark back to LR v1? > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > I do have Lightroom 1 since 2006 its still loaded on this computer and it > was the second version which really made it viable for image processing as > well as browsing and organizing. The image manipulation stuff in this first > version is very minimal a few tweaks and they told you up front you'd be > for > sure opening it in Photoshop with a touch of a button. I think it sold like > hotcakes and plenty of people have no intention of opening their images up > in anything if they really didn't have to and doing anything to them. So > Lightroom became the digital program for digital photography and they added > the world "Photoshop" to it. > > I asked a gal in a caf? sitting next to me if she used Photoshop. She said > yes. She used LightRoom. > > History of LightRoom: > > http://www.mosaicarchive.com/2012/10/24/the-history-of-lightroom/ > > > > On 10/14/15 11:25 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information